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Miscellaneous Tips

 

HELP! CHANGES ARE NOT SHOWING UP ON THE PAGE
(Clearing Your Browser' Cache)

As you surf the Internet, every browser stores the contents of the pages you visit on your computer in a "temporary memory" called the cache. Browsers do this so that when you revisit a page, it will load much faster as the browser won't have to download all the images and contents again. However, when changes are made on a page on the School Web site, sometimes they may not show up in your browser right away since your browser is still reading the version of the page in its cache. When this happens, you can purge the cache of your browser and reload the page, at which point the browser will load the new version of the page. To clear your cache, follow the instructions below. You can also set your browser to purge the cache each time you close the browser, ensuring you start with a fresh slate each time you go online.

Internet Explorer 8

  1. Click the Tools menu and select Internet Options.
  2. Be sure the General tab is selected.
  3. Under "Browsing history", click "Delete..."
  4. In the new window, be sure the Temporary Internet Files box is checked. You can uncheck everything else you don't want to delete.
  5. Click Delete.

Internet Explorer 7

  1. Once your browser is open, click the Tools menu and select Internet Options.
  2. Make sure the General tab is selected.
  3. Under "Browsing History" click "Delete"
  4. In the new window, click Delete Files in the Temporary Internet Files section.
  5. Alternatively, clear your cache for just the current page you're visiting. Press and hold [Ctrl] on your keyboard, then press [F5].

Internet Explorer 6

  1. Once your browser is open, click the Tools menu and select Internet Options.
  2. Make sure the General tab is selected.
  3. Click Delete Files in the Temporary Internet Files section and click OK.
  4. If you want the browser to automatically clear the cache whenever you close it, click the Advanced tab. Click to check the box next to the "Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed" option (in the section labeled "Security"). Click OK. This will delete everything except cookies.

Firefox

  1. Go to Tools and select Options.
  2. Go to the Advanced tab.
  3. Under the Offline Storage section, click the "Clear Now" button.
  4. Hit OK.

Mozilla SeaMonkey

  1. Click the Edit menu and select Preferences.
  2. In the left-side list, open the Advanced node and select Cache.
  3. Click the Clear Cache button.

Chrome

  1. Select the Tools menu. (the wrench icon in the upper-right corner).
  2. Select Clear Browsing Data.
  3. Select the "Empty the cache" checkbox.
  4. If you do not wish to delete cookies, etc., remove checks from them in the list.
  5. Select the period of time for which you wish to delete cached information using the "Clear data from this period" dropdown menu.
  6. Click the Clear Browsing Data button.

Opera

  1. Once your browser is open, select the Tools menu and click "Delete Private Data".
  2. Click the Details button.
  3. If you don't want to delete cookies, saved passwords, etc., uncheck them in the list.
  4. Press delete.

Safari

  1. Click the Safari menu and select Empty Cache.
  2. Confirm the action by clicking Empty in the pop-up window

 

HOW DO I ADD A LINK TO MY PUBLICATIONS ON PUBMED?

Integration with PubMed is on our to-do list for improving the Web site. Eventually, we want to display an automated feed of each faculty member's publications on his or her faculty directory profile page. In the mean time, however, you can manually add a link to your publications on PubMed. It's just like adding a link to anything else. The only tricky part is getting a PubMed URL that links to your publications. Here's how you do it:

  1. Go to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/advanced and use whatever and however many search parameters (author, location ID, etc.) are needed to narrow down the search results to only your publications.
  2. The results page you get from this search has a URL of http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed. That doesn’t do us any good because it’s not specific to your search, so when someone goes to that URL, they’ll just end up at the search screen rather than your search results. To get the URL that we need, scroll down a little bit on this search results page and you’ll see in the right column a box with the header “Search Details”. Click the Search button below that box.

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  3. You should now get another search results page. Note that the URL for this page is a lot more complicated than what we had before. This is the URL that you should use.

SOME USEFUL TOOLS FOR WEB EDITING AND ONLINE COLLABORATION

  • Diigo: Printing out Web pages and marking them up is so passé. Diigo allows you to make notes on Web pages and let others see it without any need for a hard copy. Just install this FireFox plugin (which adds a Diigo toolbar to your browser), then sign up for a free account at Diigo.com. After that, use the "Highlight and Comment" function in the Diigo toolbar to annotate a Web page. When you are done and want to let someone else see what you've marked, use the "Get Annotated Link" option under the "Send" button to get a URL that you can send to others. (See example here. Mouse over blue highlights to see the notes).
  • PDF Download: A FireFox plugin that allows you to save any Web page as a PDF.
  • Screengrab: A FireFox plugin that lets you save a Web page, or a portion of one, as an image.
  • FireShot: A FireFox plugin that allows you to take a screenshot of a Web page, then annotate it with a set of easy-to-use tools, and save it as an image. Very useful for illustrating changes you want to make (no need to print out the Web page and write out edits).
  • Slideshare: This is like YouTube or Flickr for slideshows (in PowerPoint, Word, PDF, and other formats). Just sign up for a free account and upload a slideshow file. You will then be able to send others a link to others so they can see the slideshow (without having to mess with bulky e-mail attachments). You can also embed the uploaded slideshow on a page on your lab Web site (see embedding directions).
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