Web

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Information on the main physics websites.

The main Department of Physics website

https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk is the main Physics website and will be the first thing people interested in Oxford Physics will see. Please try to keep your and your group infomation up to date and relevant. Refer to How to edit page to learn how to edit pages.

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General information about creating a new blog and blog entries on Physics website

Under this section of Physics website you can find all the blogs that have been set up for Physics users. Users with a valid Physics account may contribute to these blogs.

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Introduction to OxFile service that can be used to share files with members, and with people outside the University

Important: The OxFile service has been retired

OxFile, service provided by IT Services University of Oxford, was decommissioned on 19th June 2023. Please view guidance on migrating from OxFile to OneDrive if you need to share large files.


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A description of group webpages at groups.physics.ox.ac.uk

Updating your content on groups.physics.ox.ac.uk

If you want to edit your research section on the main physics website, please go to the newcomers guide to the web.

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Web services available to members of Department of Physics

All official websites, including these of departments and research groups, must comply with the rules for Oxford University website. For up-to-date information e.g. what domain name you can request for project's website as well as where it can be hosted please read this page.

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A description of personal webpages at users.physics.ox.ac.uk

Updating your content on users.physics.ox.ac.uk

If you want to edit your profile on the main physics website, please go to the newcomers guide to the web.

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Instruction how to reduce/optimize size of a PDF file on Windows and Linux

Nuance PDF Converter Enterprise on Windows

On Windows machines managed by Department Nuance PDF Convert Enterprise software can be installed using Physics self service. If you do not want to install this software on your work computer you can connect to one of the the Windows Terminal Server (how to access Windows Terminal Server) where this software is installed.

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Web pages hosted by the unix systems

This service is deprecated and will be removed at the end of Centos 7 support. New users should create a "Users and Groups" web page instead.

What is provided

Some personal webspace is made available so that you can easily share small files with external collaborators.

Categories: Linux | Web | pnp | ppunix

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Linking between pages on the physics website

To find out how to create links, see Formatting web content

There are several ways that the website can link pages

Auto linking

Autolinking is where you type in a link in the content of your page

e.g. http://www.google.com

As you can see, the website automatically links the page to the correct url.

Disabling autolinking

Sometimes, the autolinking can be a little too zealous:
smb://imaginary-fileserver.example.org

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Video tutorials on how to do content editing on the internal website. Covers multiple areas such as basic formatting, lists, linking, uploading, images, collapsing sections.

It is recommended that you look at the following resources to supplement the material on this page:

Click below to access one of our video tutorials on how to edit content on the Physics website using the Drupal content management system.

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