Welcome

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Jim Kirby
–to the CCRI WordPress Faculty Web

The new faculty Web will be powered by a WordPress back-end. We are adopting the use of this web-based editing and publishing tool as an alternative to our current faculty Web publishing method which relies on FrontPage Server Extensions -a legacy technology which is no longer supported by Microsoft.

For faculty with existing Web sites

If you currently have a site on the faculty.ccri.edu domain, we encourage you to migrate your site to the new WordPress faculty Web.  Please e-mail webservices@ccri.edu and let us know you’d like to do so.

For faculty who do not have a Web site

If you do not currently have a faculty Web site and would like to initiate one, please fill-out and submit this form and a basic site will be prepared for you. [Learn more]

An Important Note About Editing Access

When on-campus, you will need to have a wired connection to the campus network in order to login and edit your WordPress faculty Web. You will not be able to login to your WordPress faculty web, while on campus, using a CCRI wireless connection.
When off-campus, you will need to login to a VPN session before logging into your WordPress site.  Everything you need to know about VPN, plus the software download, is here: http://it.ccri.edu/network/vpn-overview.shtml

Thank you for helping us develop this faculty web alternative.

IT Web Services
http://www.ccri.edu/webservices/

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Posted on October 5, 2011 by Jim Kirby

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New Faculty Webs to use WordPress

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Jim Kirby

WordPress LogoNEW! – Faculty Web sites created after June 1, 2011 will use a WordPress back-end. Your site will initially be set-up with the Screen shot of faculty site home pagedefault CCRI faculty Web theme (see on right), but a variety of other themes will be available for you to apply to your site -or you may choose to upload a theme of your own –just be sure to “preview” it before applying it because not all themes fit the standard content.

For faculty with existing Web sites

If you currently have a site on http://faculty.ccri.edu and would like to migrate your site to the new WordPress faculty Web, please e-mail webservices@ccri.edu.

For faculty who do not have a Web site

If you do not currently have a faculty Web site and would like to initiate one, please fill-out and submit this form and a basic site will be prepared for you.

See a listing of faculty who are exploring the use of WordPress for their web sites.

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Uploading and linking to Documents in your WordPress Faculty site

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Jim Kirby

This tutorial will explain how one uploads and links to PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other documents from within your WordPress site.

I used an existing faculty Web site for this tutorial. The specific goal here is to transfer a large number of PDF and Word files from a live “FrontPage” (a site edited & published using FrontPage, SharePoint Designer or Expression Web) faculty web site to a WordPress faculty Web site.

Part I involves downloading (from your present site ) a copy of the files you plan to upload to your new WordPress site. Part II covers uploading the files to your WordPress site and linking to them. [Learn more]

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Compress Files with FileMinimizer

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Jim Kirby

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The new WordPress faculty Web has an 8 MB file size limitation on uploads (there is also a per site limit of 500 MB). So, what do you when your file(s) exceed those maximum size limits?

Tools like FILEminimizer Suite will quickly compresses your large files into smaller files (without sacrificing quality) so that you can easily upload to your new WordPress Web site.

FILEminimizer Suite compresses PowerPoint, Word, Excel and image files by up to 98% without zipping. The software sports an intuitive interface and lets you optimize the size of your Office files (97-2010) as well as your JPG, TIF, BMP, GIF, EMF and PNG image files without changing the native file format or quality. It integrates into Microsoft Office and into your email program (supports Microsoft Outlook) and can optimize your office and image attachments directly before sending. You can easily bypass email size limitations and won’t clog up your recipient’s inbox.  [Learn more]

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