These sessions are for you if you edit or develop web pages for your department, service area, teaching or research. If you’ve never used SiteBuilder before, we’ve got a session to help you get started which will cover the basics of editing and publishing content to the web. If you’ve already got a basic knowledge of SiteBuilder, the rest of the sessions are designed to help you focus on specific issues and improve your knowledge.

Most of the sessions (with the exception of ‘Getting started’ and ‘Creating dynamic pages and 'Managing your web content', which are longer) are just 90 minutes and include a presentation of about 30 minutes followed by an opportunity to work through exercises yourself, for which we’ve allowed an hour.

If you can’t attend one of the sessions, all our training courses are available on-line.

Getting started: An overview for beginners

• Evaluate, structure and design good web pages
• SiteBuilder page layout
• Editing and previewing page content
• Creating new pages and adding content
  
• Editing page properties
• Adding links, bookmarks and tables
• Content error checking and link checking
  
• Creating short web addresses with go.warwick.
  

For this session you will need a good understanding of the Windows interface and be familiar with browsing the web.

Working with files

• Publishing formats (appropriate use of web, PDF and Word)
• Uploading files with the ‘Links Picker’
• Uploading and extracting ZIP files
• Inserting file icons
• Creating a page from an Office document
• Creating a ‘Table of Contents’ page
• Using the Files toolbar
• Drag and drop reordering tool
  
• Using the ‘Pages-to-go’ option

For this session you will need a good understanding of the Windows interface, be familiar with browsing the web and ideally have some basic knowledge of using SiteBuilder.

Adding images

• Appropriate use of images
• Image formats (GIF and JPEG and when to use them) and image size
• Inserting images with the ‘Image Picker’
• Uploading images in ZIP files
• Inserting file icons
• Creating an ‘Image Slideshow’ page
• Creating an ‘Image Gallery’ page
• Working with page thumbnails
• Understanding image sizes

For this session you will need a good understanding of the Windows interface, be familiar with browsing the web and ideally have some basic knowledge of using SiteBuilder.

Working with links

• Inserting links with the ‘Links Picker’
• Inserting links to external web pages
• Inserting anchors/bookmarks
• Inserting links to files and file icons
• Using images as links
• Using ‘Next and Previous’ links
• Creating a ‘Table of Contents’ page
• Using links opening in a new window
• Checking and maintaining links

For this session you will need a good understanding of the Windows interface, be familiar with browsing the web and ideally have some basic knowledge of using SiteBuilder.

Adding news and events

• Considering short-lived content like news and events
• Creating a news page
• Creating a calendar page
• Creating and editing news items
• Adding a thumbnail image to a news item
• Creating and editing an event item (including multi-day events)
• Categorising or tagging news and events
• Archiving news and events
• Creating a news and events feed

For this session you will need a good understanding of the Windows interface, be familiar with browsing the web and ideally have some basic knowledge of using SiteBuilder.

Creating forms and quizzes

• Creating and editing a form using FormsBuilder
  
• Using form elements
• Form properties
• Working with submissions
  
• Viewing and saving form submissions
• Creating a basic quiz using QuizBuilder
• Building the form and adding elements
• Providing feedback for the quiz taker

For this session you will need a good understanding of the Windows interface, be familiar with browsing the web and ideally have some basic knowledge of using SiteBuilder.

Creating dynamic pages

• Rename, move, copy & delete pages
• Page permissions, passwords & external user codes
  
• Web groups
• Adding multimedia - pocasts, slideshows, galleries & video;
• Table of contents and Table of tags pages;
• Resource bookings page;
• Glossary pages and definitions
  
• Embed a forum and create page comments;
• Create a scheduled change;
• Find & replace tool;
• What's new and sitemap pages;
• Getting content from other pages;
• Embed a RSS feed.

For this session you will need a good understanding of the Windows interface, be familiar with browsing the web and ideally have some basic knowledge of using SiteBuilder.

Managing your web content

• What is a content strategy and why this is important?
• Identifying your global audiences and their needs
  
• What makes a good site?
  
• Effective online communication / Writing for the web
• Stock take – Content audit
• Post audit – what happens next – updating the site
• Planning and restructuring a site
  
• Measuring success, metadata and Search Engine Optimisation
• Useful tools for making your life easier

This is the last of the courses, and it is aimed at those who manage their sites, so a good working knowledge of SiteBuilder is required to get the most out of the course.