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Information Technology Services

Web Services

Getting Started

To edit an HLS web site, staff will need to have an SFTP account created for his/her specific web site. To have ITS create an SFTP account, please have your supervisor complete the SFTP request form . Once your account has been created and you receive an email confirmation from ITS, please visit the SFTP configuration instructions page for directions on how to configure either SSH Secure Shell, Dreamweaver, or Fetch. If you have questions about configuring an SFTP client, or if you have questions about posting information to your HLS site, please contact the Faculty and Staff Help Desk.

ITS also requests that all faculty read the Law School's web publishing policies.

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Web Features and Services

Training

Staff are welcome to email training@law.harvard.edu for one to one training on how to edit HLS created web sites. Classes on how to edit HLS web pages are also offered throughout the school year. For more information about training opportunities at Harvard Law School, please visit the ITS Training Page.

Consulting

Whether starting a new web site or reworking an old one, planning is the most important aspect of web publishing and ITS can help our community set out on the right path. Even if outsourcing web development, ITS can help people avoid common mistakes or review job specs and developer resumes. If considering hiring a third party vendor to create a web site, please let ITS know. We can then coordinate a meeting with this vendor to ensure their site, specifications, and design are compatible with other HLS web services.

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Online Calendars

Public and private online WebEvent calendars (like the HLS Campus Events Calendar) are available for staff and departments. If any staff member or department would like an online calendar, please contact the Faculty-Staff. Help Desk.

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News Feeds (RSS) and Aggregators

ITS provides tools for both publishing and aggregating RSS news feeds. If a staff member or a department would like to create a news feed, please contact the Faculty-Staff Help Desk. We will create a news feed and then provide the staff member or department with instructions on how to apply the specific news feed to the site.

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Custom Search Engine

Please see our instructions on how to add a custom search engine for detailed instructions on how to create a custom search engine. If you have questions about these instructions, please contact the Faculty-Staff Help Desk. ITS will be more than happy to walk staff and departments through creating a custom search engine for your site.

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Mailing Lists Subscriptions

Many times staff members or departments would like the ability to have a link that would add people to a mailing list. For instructions on how to add this link, please view our mailing list subscription instructions. If you have questions about these instructions, please contact the Faculty-Staff Help Desk.

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Forms (creating forms for your web site)

ITS is more than happy to help staff and departments find the right form solution for their web site. If staff or departments would like a web form, please contact ITS so that we can identify your needs and help create this form.

There are three different form solutions and asking the right questions will help us identify what form is best. The first form solution is to use a Harvard-specific online application called the Polling Tool. This will create an online form that can be used for surveys, quizzes, and evaluations. The next solution is to create a form within MyHLS. MyHLS is a great solution for faculty who wish to create a form for a specific class. The final solution is to create an autoform. Autoform is a tool provided by HLS to automate the process of authoring HTML forms and require a slightly deeper understanding of HTML. Please visit instructions on how to create an autoform for more details. If you have questions about any of these three form tools, please contact the Faculty-Staff Help Desk or email our training department at training@law.harvard.edu.

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Blogs

Blog creation and hosted is provided free by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. For more information about these blogs, please visit http://blogs.law.harvard.edu.

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Discussion Boards

ITS offers our community two discussion board solutions. The first solution is to create a discussion board within MyHLS. This is a great solution for staff or departments who want a discussion board for a specific student organization. The other solution is to create a discussion board using PHPbb (http://www.phpbb.com/) hosted by ITS. This is an open source program that is ideal for discussion board creation and maintenance. If you would like to create a discussion board within either MyHLS or PHPpp, please contact the Faculty-Staff Help Desk. ITS will be happy to walk you through the process of creating your discussion board with either discussion board tool.

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Customized Web Development

For information about customized web development, please visit customized application development at Harvard Law School.

Rotating Images

Some web sites would like the option of having a different picture appear each time someone visits their specific web site. This feature is called "Rotating Images". If you would like to know how to create rotating images, please click rotating picture instructions. If you have questions about these instructions, please contact the Faculty-Staff Help Desk.

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Harvard University Accessibility Requirements

ITS requests that you comply with the University's primary accessibility requirements.

Each web page in your site must have:

This applies to each included page in framed content.

Web pages may not have:

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