Another CMS option: Plone

I recently received the below message from Nicholas A. Kraft, an assistant professor in the department of computer science at UA.  I share it here to add to the ongoing discussion of CMS options and to document another success story of an open-source CMS implementation at UA:
Hi Andy,
I just happened across the WebTide post about [...]

Customizing the Appearance of an Embedded YouTube Video

As you may know, UA has a YouTube channel with some really nice video content that you may be interested in linking to or embedding on your website.  If you are interested in embedding YouTube video, there are a number of parameters that you can modify to customize the way the YouTube video appears within [...]

Update to LDAP entry

If you downloaded the authenticate() class from my post “Using LDAP Authentication for Website Logins“, you may wish to download it again, the documentation at the top of the original file posted didn’t reflect changes recently made to the script. The info on how to use a config file for a different server had [...]

Using LDAP Authentication for Website Logins

What’s so great about using the LDAP?
Ever try creating your own login and authentication system for a Web Application?  There are lots of things to ponder in such an undertaking.  From security to data storage to user management,  it can be a real hassle.  Once you do get your custom authentication scheme in place, your [...]

UA HTML E-mail Templates

As part of our effort to use the UA Web Guide as a fluid and regularly updated toolkit, a new resource has been added:  HTML E-mail templates.  Because HTML email has become more important recently and with it comes more and more questions about how to develop and send these emails, we went ahead and [...]

Web Standards self-study curriculum

In Web Communications, we are big proponents of adhering to Web Standards as we develop and manage web sites.  This is an important area to be well-versed in for web designers, because web standards have evolved from being a grassroots effort into being a pretty commonly-accepted platform on which to build web sites.  But what [...]

New Virtual Campus Tour launches on UA.edu

Today we are excited to announce the official launch of UA’s new virtual campus tour on UA.edu. Certainly 360-degree tours have been around a while, but we feel this tour differentiates itself from traditional smaller Quicktime-based 360-degree movies in a number of ways, and injects new life into the format by creating a pretty impressive [...]