http://www.jou.ufl.edu/staff/clee/blog Activity, news, and notes from the college Web administrator Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:06:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few projects that have come up recently that were best accomplished by setting up some instances of WordPress. The Study of the U.S. Institute on Journalism and Media is the first case where I've set up WordPress more as a content management system for pages rather than as a blog. ... http://www.jou.ufl.edu/staff/clee/blog/?p=175 I'm heading out tomorrow to begin my journey to this year's SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX tomorrow through Tuesday (flying back Wednesday). I have described it in the past as a giant, five-day-long group hug for the builders of the web. This will be my fourth visit to this ... http://www.jou.ufl.edu/staff/clee/blog/?p=167 The content from the Fall 2008 issue of communigator is in the process of Web production. I once again wanted to do a more-extensive redesign of the site this time, but that didn't happen. Or at least it didn't happen for initial production. It might happen after the fact, though. For the ... http://www.jou.ufl.edu/staff/clee/blog/?p=163 The College's Center for Media Innovation and Research launched last week The Journalism Now Podcast, hosted and produced by my colleague and friend Dave Stanton. I'm involved to the extent that I provide the Web server infrastructure for the site. The site was originally launched on one of our weakest servers. ... http://www.jou.ufl.edu/staff/clee/blog/?p=160 I updated the WordPress instance that powers this blog to version 2.7 this morning. The admin UI is once again very different and I like what I see so far. http://www.jou.ufl.edu/staff/clee/blog/?p=156 I've written a few times before (1, 2, 3) about techniques for rotating images in place on a page, such as is done on the home page of the College site. The brief history is that it started in JavaScript, then went to Flash, and now is back to JavaScript ... http://www.jou.ufl.edu/staff/clee/blog/?p=150 I still need to post here more often. Maybe now that it's Fall and I'm working on some cool stuff, I'll make (or find) time. According to Google Analytics, the most viewed posts in this time frame were: Date sorting by filename in PHP Dreamweaver tip: Import and Export site definitions New Mac ... http://www.jou.ufl.edu/staff/clee/blog/?p=147 All the content from the Spring 2008 issue of communigator is now online. I wanted to do a more-extensive redesign of the site this time, but ended up in a time crunch on some early content so all the design changes were tweaks. They're good tweaks, I believe. Some articles received ... http://www.jou.ufl.edu/staff/clee/blog/?p=143 I did. So should you. http://www.jou.ufl.edu/staff/clee/blog/?p=140 Sort of, it's offset by two weeks (April 17 - July 17). According to Wordpress.com's Blog Stats, the most viewed posts in that time frame were: Date sorting by filename in PHP Dreamweaver tip: Import and Export site definitions New Mac essentials Hooking up to the UF Campus Map College Facebook page launched Yes, I ... http://www.jou.ufl.edu/staff/clee/blog/?p=138