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Tools

Here is the suite of tools that we currently utilize when creating web site and programs. If you have a need that is not addressed here, please take a look at the Web Applications Portfolio.

Image Database

We maintain a database of images for developers to use when creating web-based programs and sites within the Duke Web community.The image database is:

  • searchable
  • FREE (no copyright infringement)
  • hundreds photos and still growing....
  • NetID authenticated for use exclusively within the Duke Community

News and Events Tools: (Including Syndication using RSS)

Faculty Database System (FDS)
A database designed to offer user maintained, web accessible updating of faculty, staff and graduate student information including CVs, research projects, course offerings and more. FDS is also used as a form for simple maintenance of news listings on departmental web sites. The information in FDS can be published or displayed in any format. For example, data may be selectively displayed as

  • A curriculum vitae, which may be viewed as a web page or downloaded as a PDF document
  • Web pages for individual faculty members
  • A departmental directory
  • A list of departmental course offerings
  • A syndicated news feature with RSS output
  • A list of departmental publications and/or research interests
  • A statement to the chair for annual review purposes
  • A means to manage departmental email lists, and make them easily accessible to department members

Calendaring

University Calendar and MCal
Events listings for lectures, conferences, exhibits, parties and shindigs.  We have two options for calendaring that we currently implement for our development projects. Mcal (math -cal-endar) is another Dr. Yu product that allows us to categorize event types. It is highly flexible, has an RSS output but has some syching issues with the University Calendar.
The University Calendar is another tool that recent enhancements have provided categorization as well as archiving.

Blogs, Wikis, Forums/Message Boards

Mail Forms and Mail Lists

Google Search

Viewsflash

Streaming Media including DukeCast

We are always trying to improve our offerings and are currently working on integrating and developing additional tools such as:

Content Managment System (CMS)