User-friendly Donation Links

Make it easier for donors to give online by creating custom links that automatically set gift options like recipient and gift amount.

(Examples below apply to the current College of Liberal & Creative Arts donation form.)

To create a custom "Make a Gift" link:

• Use the & (ampersand) symbol to add on form field values to the link URL
• Replace blank spaces between form field values with %20

Custom Make A Gift links

Some basic examples for building your own donation form links.

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The default Humanities URL (donor makes all form selections).

Example: "Make a Gift"

https://www.applyweb.com/public/contribute?s=sfuhuman

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Automatically select your program or department:

Example: "I would like to support the Theatre Department"

https://www.applyweb.com/public/contribute?s=sfuhuman&SFUHUMAN-DESIGNATE_GIFT=Theatre

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Automatically set a gift amount:

Example: "I would give $25 to the Theatre Department"

https://www.applyweb.com/public/contribute?s=sfuhuman&SFUHUMAN-DESIGNATE_GIFT=Theatre&SFUHUMAN-GIFT_AMOUNT=25

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Pre-select "Other" and write-in the name of your initiative.

Example: "I Would Like to the Support Players' Club"

https://www.applyweb.com/public/contribute?s=sfuhuman&SFUDONAT-DESIGNATE_GIFT=Other&SFUHUMAN-DESIG_OTHER=Players%20Club

Drupal How-to: Post a Video Podcast

Create a video podcast from content hosted on the Internet Archive using the Drupal CMS.

Drupal: Page headers

Page headers (Imageboxes) on department sites require three parts:

1. A background image.
2. Brief, descriptive heading and a link to an edited photoset or set of tagged photos on Flickr.
3. A list of pages where the Imagebox should or shouldn't appear.

Drupal: FAQ Content Type

An FAQ content type has been added to the Drupal CMS. See example: http://cinema.sfsu.edu/faq A little about the FAQ content type: -Categorized/sorted by the terms available in the Sections vocabulary/category. -Default sort is newest at top, oldest at bottom (Date Descending), but questions can be manually resorted. -Not automatically published to the frontpage (news). -Comments are on, but moderated.

Add Flickr photos to a Drupal node

Problem

You would like to add or replace a photo (image) on a content page in Drupal.

Purpose

The purpose of this guide is to demonstrate how to add an image to a content page in Drupal using HTML code automatically generated by Flickr.

Quick and Easy Slideshows Using Flickr

Basic Slideshow

Example

Make your own:

1. Upload photos to your Flickr account.
2. Tag your photos (e.g. beca1000)
3. From your main account page click on the Tags link.
4. Click on the tag for the photos you want to include in your slideshow.
5. On the tag page click on the View as slideshow link.

Embed the Slideshow in a Webpage

1. Copy and paste the following code into your blog post or webpage:
   <iframe src="http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?user_id=yourFlickrUserID&amp;tags=yourFlickrTag" frameborder="0" height="470" scrolling="no" width="470"></iframe>
2. Use your browser to view the source code of the slideshow you just created
3. Use the find option to search for: insert_user_SlideShow
4. Copy and paste the user_id into the code from step 1.

   (insert_user_SlideShow('swfdiv', 

   '13460537@N03', 'beca1000', '', '', '');)

5. Enter the tag for the photos to be displayed into the code from step 1.

PDF Section 508 Accessibility

Problem

It was noted that the Spring 08 Events Calendar PDF did not pass the Adobe Acrobat accessibility checkpoints and may be in violation of Section 508 accessibility requirements:

• This document is not tagged; the reading order of the contents may be incorrect.
• None of the images in this document that need alternate text have it.
• All of the text in this document lacks a language specification.

Closed Captions

I recently tried my hand at adding captions to the War trailer on the Doc Film website. I originally thought a plain text file with the transcription would be enough, but as I learned, good captioning falls more under the area of copy editing than technical coding or programming. Basically, captioning is an editorial task and should not be treated as a web-specific task. With that in mind, I would suggest: 1) Provide a basic captioning style guide for the College. 2) Hire or train captioners to use the NCAM Media Access Generator (MAGpie). Captioning FAQ from WGBH NCAM Media Access Generator (MAGpie) Captioner Job Descriptions