SPH Informatics & Computing Services

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Web Services

• Contact Information & Hours
• Training & Documentation
• Web Development Resources
• Personal Web Sites
• Group Web Sites
• Course Web Sites
• Conference/Symposium Web Sites
• Database-Driven Web Sites
• Online Surveys
• Digital Signs
• Request for Web Services Form
• Information Collected from SPH Web Site Visitors

E-Learning & Instructional Technology

Distance Education

Site Menu

Related Links

• Taubman Health Sciences Library
• Information and Technology Services (ITS) at the University of Michigan

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Training & Documentation

• Web Accessibility at the University of Michigan
• Broken Link Reports
• Dreamweaver Training
• Information for Outside Developers
• Online Payments on SPH Websites
• Other Training
• Providing Alternative Text Content for Video
• Safe Web Browsing
• Using Web Forms at SPH
• Usability Testing
• Web Development Resources
• Web Site Usage Statistics
• Web Site Visibility

Broken Link Reports

We provide monthly broken link reports to each SPH Department. If you would like a report generated for your site, please contact us.

Displaying RSS Feeds

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a popular means of sharing content (such as news headlines) without requiring readers to constantly contact a site for updates. RSS feeds contain headlines and hyperlinks to longer articles or web pages. The SPH web site generates an RSS Feed for our Calendar of Events.

If there is a RSS feed that you would like to display on a page in your web site, you can use the free Feed2JS service to create a JavaScript snippet that can be embedded on your page. Instructions are available on the Embedding a RSS Feed on a Web Page workshop handout.

Dreamweaver Training

Dreamweaver may be purchased at a discount from the following sources:

• M-MarketSite via Wolverine Access
• the UM Computing Showcase
• Adobe using their education store

Dreamweaver is also available in all UM Sites computing labs, and from UM's virtual sites.

The Teaching & Technology Collaborative provides free hands-on Dreamweaver training workshops. SPH Web Services also occasionally holds Dreamweaver workshops.

Training Documentation

Training Documentation by Patty Bradley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

• Prevent Word from Inserting Non-Web-Readable Characters into Webpages (January, 2012)
• Dreamweaver Site Definitions (PDF, 73K, updated August 2011)
• Dreamweaver: Basics (PDF, 2.2M, updated March 2011)
• Dreamweaver: Adding a Rollover Image (PDF, 88K, updated June 2009)
• Dreamweaver: Cascading Style Sheets (PDF, 664K, updated June 2009)
• Dreamweaver: Web Forms (PDF, 391K, updated June 2009)
• Dreamweaver: Accessible Web Sites (PDF, 366K)
• Instructions for using the SPH Broken Link Reports
• Processing Photos and Adding them to your Web Pages (PDF, 398K, updated September 2009)
• Creating a Lightbox Slideshow (HTML) or PDF, 573K, (updated October 2010)
• Embedding a RSS Feed on a Web Page (PDF, 252K, updated October 2010)
• Embedding Videos on a Web Page (HTML) or PDF, 490K, (updated March 2011)
• Embedding Facebook and Twitter Streams on a Web Page (HTML) or PDF, 321K(updated March 2011)
• Adding Meta Data with Dreamweaver (HTML) or PDF, 148K (updated November 2009)
• Creating Online Registration Forms in UM SiteMaker (HTML) (updated January, 2012)

Other Training

Workshops are also available specifically for UM.SiteMaker and CTools .

Usability Testing

Interested in testing the usability of your web site with real web users? SPH Web Services has performed Usability Testing on several SPH-hosted web sites. Please contact us for more information.

UM's Digital Media Commons also offers an excellent USE Lab if you prefer test your web site yourself.

It is important that you test your web site in all web browsers.

Web Development Resources

Want to learn more about developing good web sites? Please see our Web Development Resources page for information on good web development practices, common mistakes, and making your web sites accessible to the disabled.

Additionally, we have created SPH Web Publishing Guidelines specifically for web sites hosted at SPH.

Web Site Usage Statistics

Interested in obtaining web site usage statistics for your web site? Log-based usage statistics are continuously compiled and reports are available to SPH Faculty & Staff on the SPH Intranet under Web Site Tools.

Google Analytics is a free, enterprise-level website usage statistics reporting tool that offers a wealth of information about your website visitors. Google Analytics is already enabled for the SPH website, including all departmental sites. If you manage a sub-site of the SPH site, we will be happy to give you access to the SPH analytics. Please contact us for more information.

If you manage an SPH-affiliated site like a Center sites, you can set up your own analytics account. In order to use Google Analytics, you must have a Google (GMail) Account. If you do not already have a Google account, please create one first. Then view the Google Analytics Installation Guide.