Dr. Dean Taciuch
George Mason University

Fall 2010


 

Know Your Rights

Using the Creative Commons search ot the Internet Archive, find one image, one text file (about a paragraph), and one video clip.

Place the files onto your web page, giving proper attribution. Then write a few sentences explaining the license terms.

To copy the files--

Text: This is the easy one: simply cut and paste

Photo: You can include the photo by linking to the original, or by copying the original. You should copy it, not simply link to it.

In your web editor, when you try to add an image (or video clip), you'll get a dialog asking for the location of the file. If you include a full URL (http://), you are linking to the original. If the original site ever changes, your image won't show up.

Instead, you should copy the image to your public_html folder, and make a link to the local file, using the "Choose File" button. Check the "URL is relative" box. Then upload the file and the html page to your web site.

linking an image

 

Video: This one's tricky; you can use the <object> or the older <embed> tag, but these are not included in KompoZer. The next version of the HTML standard (html5) will support the <video> tag, but not all broswers currently support this.

Fortunately, many video sites will often have the <embed> code ready to copy and paste.

For example: http://www.archive.org/details/Betty_Boop_with_Henry_1935
Click on "Embed this" and copy the code (there'a quite a bit of it, but that's to enable the clip to work in most brwosers).

In KompoZer, go to the Source tab, and paste the code between the <body> and </body> tags

paste code

 


 



 


 

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