New Media
LiveWhale Frequently Asked Questions, and Other News
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For LiveWhale help, we are offering “office hours” now each Wednesday morning at the Dubach Mac Lab. And occasional Fridays at the law school computer lab. -
How to add your events into the LiveWhale content management system -
How to insert a photograph into a page you are editing.
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How to add or edit livewhale image galleries
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Additional LiveWhale support documentation is now available online at support.livewhale.net
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How to attach an image to a gallery.
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For the most part, we are seeking consistency in the site design, and so the color and font of headers and body text should not be changed.
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Any group can have a customized vertical photostrip. Here’s how.
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You can update your name and email settings via the “Settings” link the control panel.
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How to use RSS to import event information from the EMS Events Calendar into LiveWhale Events.
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There are several exciting things we can do with LiveWhale galleries. -
The right sidebar menus are a part of the template and so can be edited only by the Web administrators in New Media (or the Web developer at the law school). Simply drop us an email stating what the new link should be and where it should link (including if it is a top-level menu item or a part of a sub-navigation). -
Getting added to LiveWhale user groups
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Adding hyperlinks to a page.
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There are a few simple steps to adding news: go to the LiveWhale control center (via the “Manage My Content” link atop any page once you are logged in); click the News tab…
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Bolding, Italicizing and Underlining Text
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Information on how to add pages. Making a new page is fairly simple:
- click “manage your content”
- click “pages”
- click “browse”
- add a subdirectory
- add a page: index.php
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Information about editing pages. -
You can log into LiveWhale at http://www.lclark.edu/livewhale or at the bottom of most pages at the “edit this page” link.
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You can watch a short video about managing downloads (PDFs, MS Word documents, etc.). -
An overview to how and why we can share news stories in LiveWhale. -
Instructions on editing page titles
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What do the various tabs that can show up on my control center mean? -
How to rank items using LiveWhale balloons
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You will need to log into MyLC first to see student emails. (Not about LiveWhale, but still important info.)
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What are “styles” and “format” buttons for in the editing toolbar?
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LiveWhale divides our content into separate manageable areas called groups. Groups are roughly analogous to offices, departments, programs, etc. You need to be in the right group to edit its content. -
Information about what news tags are and how they work -
Three software bugs have been identified and are being worked on.
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Explanation of a user being designated as a news reporter.
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Your username and password is always the same as your Lewis & Clark email. The information comes from a shared database maintained byInformation Technology. If you need your password reset, you can go here: http://www.lclark.edu/~infotech/CONNECTIONS/pwreset.html
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If someone suggests a story to you or your group, what happens? -
This is a little code that dynamically adds your group of office name, your school, and “Lewis & Clark” to the title.
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Walking through the various functions of the toolbar -
LiveWhale was built to be used with the Firefox web browser. You can download Firefox here: http://www.firefox.com
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While we at New Media have added a number of customizations for Lewis & Clark, the core of LiveWhale content management software was developed entirely by White Whale Web Services of Oakland, California. More information can be found at http://www.livewhale.com.
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There could be a number of things interfering with image uploads. Here are some pointers.
- New Media Home
- LiveWhale Tutorials
- LiveWhale Frequently Asked Questions
- Meet the Staff
- New Media Blog
- Ticketed Support
- Feedback
Contact Us
The New Media is located in McAfee.
email wwwadmin@lclark.edu
Director David McKelvey
New Media
0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road, MSC 19
Portland, Oregon 97219