Advanced Extensis Portfolio 8.0 including web-based publishing with Portfiolio NetPublish

Objectives

This one-day course is for Portfolio users who need to distribute their media assets over the web. It covers the principles and practice of developing a searchable web-based version of your Portfolio database.


Pre-requisites:

Experience of the Windows or Macintosh operating system or previous attendance on the equivalent training course.


Course Includes:

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.


Course Outline


Advanced Catalogue Management


· Importing Data from an existing database
· Exporting and Manipulating Portfolio data
· Mapping Imported data to Custom Fields in a Catalogue
· Recovering a Catalogue


Using Roundtrip


· Uses for metadata
· Introduction to XMP - Extensible Metadata Platform
· Utilising the EXIF data from digital cameras
· Extracting embedded image metadata into Portfolio
· Embedding Portfolio metadata into images - e.g. IPTC data
· Reading and Editing metadata in other applications such as Photoshop


Introduction to Web Publishing


· Overview of web technology
· Setting up a web server on Windows and OS X
· Administering your web server
· Publishing a simple web site






Portfolio NetPublish


· Installing NetPublish
· Adding a NetPublish Server
· Using the NetPublish Assistant
· Configuring your NetPublish Site
· The Welcome and Start Steps - Choosing a template
· Options for the Site Step
· Options for the Search, Results and Detail Steps
· Options in the Collection Step
· Publishing your Website
· NetPublish File Locations
· NetPublish Administration
· Customising templates and stylesheets
· Directing people to your NetPublish Sites