Information Technology in Liberal Arts

What's New

RSS feeds - What are they and how are they created?

Podcasting - What you need to know to get started.

 

 

 

Tools

Useful tools to help you create better web sites.

Validators

Firefox web developers Toolbar - Adds a menu and a toolbar with many web developer tools - Highly Recommended

 

Official Markup Validation Service. Free service that checks web documents for conformance to W3C Standards

 

Link Checkers

Xenu's Link Sleuth - Downloadable application that checks all broken links in your site and provides a detailed, printable report.

Dreamweaver has a built in link checker as well. To use select Site from the DW toolbar and click "Check Links Site wide". A Results pane will display at the bottom of DW.

RSS and Podcast Tools

RSS Building - Free tool for creating RSS and Podcast feeds.

 

Web Design and Image Policies

• AD54 Web Page Design and Image
• AD61 University Communications Through Advertising, Publications and Media Relations
• Penn State University Mark - Graphic Identity System

Web Site Components

This is a list of pre-built components that can be used on your web sites. Most of which also include instructions.

• Search engine widget - Use this put a search engine on your site. (This is a requirement of PSU AD54 policy)

 

Images for Penn State Web Sites

This is a list of available Penn State images for use on University web sites.

• Campus Images
• Official Penn State Marks and usage.
• Official Liberal Arts Marks and usage.

For Liberal Arts Images, please contact Chris Thomas at clt16@psu.edu.