University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications

At a meeting Tuesday, Meeting Room Booking System (MRBS) was adopted (by the “Chairs and Secretaries Committee”) as our internal online tool for classroom (and possibly meeting room) scheduling, replacing a homegrown system written by someone who no longer works here. Those present had been doing double entry in MRBS and the old system for [...]

Andy Lewis (of FSPA and JCA) came to me and asked about posting a description and the hours of the JCA’s Communication Coaching Center on the College site under Student Resources. It made sense, it was easy, and it is done.

The online edition of the Spring 2006 communigator reached the “glossy complete” stage Friday. That means that all of the content on the full-color pages is now available online. The table of contents page still needs a little sprucing up. I am also still awaiting the content on the non-glossy pages.

Mark at News5 really got going this week in Textpattern, posting a bunch of new stories.

Just in time for the beginning of Hurricane season, I worked with News5 to set up the News5 Hurricane Center as a Textpattern section. We first devoted a section of the news area on the station’s Web site to regularly updated Hurricane news last year.
Unrelated to Hurricane news, but also pertaining to the station’s news [...]

communigator content for the Spring 2006 issue arrived Tuesday. The cover story package was published Thursday. The rest of the content should all be published online over the course of the next couple of weeks.

I have updated my example pages for adding QuickTime players to pages using the recently-mentioned JavaScript method. Here are the links if you’re not familiar with these pages:

QuickTime streaming video
QuickTime VR

And while we’re on this subject of JavaScript insertion of object/embed code, Mindy blogged about how to handle it for Flash so I don’t have [...]