Utilities on www.upenn.edu

To help providers maintain their web sites, these utilities are provided for the following servers:

www.upenn.edu
www.alumni.upenn.edu
www.archives.upenn.edu
www.arts.upenn.edu
www.atlas.upenn.edu
blue.oasis.upenn.edu
www.business-services.upenn.edu
www.cgp.upenn.edu
www.dental.upenn.edu
www.design.upenn.edu
www.dolphin.upenn.edu
www.facilities.upenn.edu
www.test.impact.upenn.edu
www.test.irm.upenn.edu
www.magpi.org
www.oasis.upenn.edu
www.pennconnects.upenn.edu
www.net.isc.upenn.edu
www.shopatpenn.com
www.test.sp2.upenn.edu
www.universitysquare.biz
www.vpul.upenn.edu
secure.www.upenn.edu

Drop-down navigational menu Used to create a drop-down menu from which the user can navigate to other websites listed in the menu options.

Error reports When a user tries to access a page that doesn't exist, the user will have the option of sending a message to the provider to report the error.

Feedback-forms Generically processes the output of forms and display a response to the user when the form has been sucessfully filled in.

Image maps Allows the developer to include a graphical image in an HTML document and map that image with links that lead to other HTML documents.

Link checking and statistics On a weekly basis, we produce reports for providers of broken links on their sites and usage statistics.

Page counter Used to produce a graphical image of the number of visits to a particular page.

Penn Calendar imports Allows Penn Calendar data to be included in webpages using a server side include.

Provider access Interface for the primary provider to control who else has else has access to the site for updating pages.

Rotating images using XSSI Extended Server-Side-Include code to allow for rotating images on a web page.

Securing your pages How to secure browser access to your web pages.

Server-side includes How to include some dynamic information within your web page like the last time the page was modified.

Simple search Used to set up a search utility for pages that you specify.

Simple database search Used to set up a search utility for an ASCII extract from a database utility.

Additional Resources

Additional resources are available to providers for a fee. Among those resources are PHP and MySQL. Implementation details are available.

Full list of the for-fee resources that are available to web developers on www.upenn.edu.

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