University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications

I spent last Thursday and Friday in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL videotaping Webcasts at the Florida Press Association / Florida Society of Newspaper Editors convention. In addition to Webcasts, Gary is writing some blog commentary and producing audio interviews with some of the speakers and other interesting people. The site can be found under IML [...]

The first batch of stories from the Spring communigator were released to the Web Friday afternoon.
It’s now inside its own Textpattern instance. I debated (in my head) moving it into the College News system (as a “Section”), but decided against it. With Textpattern comes an RSS feed.
Within Textpattern, each issue will be a Section until [...]

I wrote previously of my involvement with the UF Web calendar working group. I am the team leader for the group that is evaluating the UNL Event Publisher, the open source project which runs the calendar at http://events.unl.edu/. As part of this, I am working on getting an instance of the system running on [...]

Reading this Lifehacker story turned on a light bulb in my mind about how to make the computers that run the Newswall work better. This involves modifying the “about:config” settings in Firefox and is not really for that faint of heart. To see if the Newswall machines work better, I set the following two settings [...]

In stage two of something bigger (stage one), some audience-oriented navigation elements were launched on the College site. In the upper-right corner of the lower part of the home page, we now have “Information for…” links. The links are (with notes about how the pages were created):

Prospective students – This is a new page.
Alumni & [...]

According to Google Analytics, the most popular posts here for May are:

Lightbox plugin added to College News
Date sorting by filename in PHP
Hooking up to the UF Campus Map
Replacing Magpie RSS with SimplePie
About that homepage makeover