New Media Lab

All department/program description data is centrally stored and managed by the Registrar’s Office.  This data is used on  academic department websites, wesmaps and in the printed catalog.  Individual departments can make changes to their description — and the Registrar’s office will review the changes and publish them. Editing  Department/Program Description Files. Logging in Use a [...]

Once in Cascade, locate your gallery folder, usually entitled “*name*-gallery.” You must first upload all the images you’d like to have in your slide show into the ‘images’ folder. To learn how, go to Uploading an Image to Cascade. After all the images have been uploaded to your ‘images’ folder (see above for example), you can [...]

1. Locate the calendar feed folder and select the feed you would like to edit. 2. Click on the Edit tab at the top of the page. 3. Edit the Feed URL using the guidelines below. To change the start date, edit the date following “sdate=” To change the end date, edit the date following [...]

Locate the video you wish to embed on YouTube. Click the Share button below the video. Click the embed button. You may want to change the height and width of the video. Make sure that the width of the video does not exceed 700 px. Copy the code in the textbox that YouTube provides. Locate [...]

1. Locate the faculty_feeds folder in the Cascade navigation. 2. Select the feed you would like to edit. 3. Select the Edit tab from the toolbar at the top of the page. 4. Edit the Feed URL to either remove or add a faculty member using the following guidelines: To Add a Faculty Member: The [...]

Inserting Hyperlinks in Cascade Within a page you can put a link to a page or site You need to select Internal or External link Internal links to documents within your cascade directory External links to documents not in your cascade directory Inserting an Internal Hyperlink: Highlight the text or select the image that you want to turn into [...]

To upload a PDF to Cascade, first choose the folder that will host the pdf. If one does not exist, create one. Creating a folder: Click on Base Folder Select New > Folder Under the System Name field, name the folder. Uploading a PDF Once the folder is created, click on it. Then select New /Image or file Under the Data [...]

There is a Cascade component that can be added to your site that allows you to create a new second level page with a slideshow contained within the body of the page.  The slideshow has parameters that allow you to have captions, thumbnails and control the speed of the slideshow.  These parameters are set once [...]

Inserting a mailto link in Cascade is simple. Type the text, word or phrase that you want to turn into a mailto link. Highlight the text that you want to turn into the link. Click the “insert/edit link” icon on the cascade toolbar. Select “external” as the type of link, as shown below. In the [...]

If you have the appropriate administrative rights you can grant other users access to help maintain your site You can grant access to an individual user to update: your entire site a folder within your site an individual page High light the element you want to share with another user for a site high light [...]