What's In My Web Editor Right Now
A total overhaul of the website of our historical society, which is huge as we have a lot of archival material on it, as well as online exhibits, and a regular monthly photo feature. We believe we should provide as much archival information online as possible for patrons and researchers.
We bought a template with pull-down menus, etc., at a nonprofit discount.
Another volunteer is helping with the adaption and tech stuff of the new format, and generally consults. I don't know anything of JavaScript, etc. - but am learning and can apply it later to my personal website, I'm sure.
What I'm Doing
We also switched to HTML4 Transitional, so I'm currently reviewing/fixing every single page, both for proper coding and design. Pages go back as far as 1999, and I've gotten wiser and better in both areas and along the way started using Dreamweaver. I'm greatly simplifying the design, getting rid of unnecessary colored fonts, blockquotes, tables, etc.
(Along the way I became astounded about how much information we actually do have online! So we are taking a careful look at how we design the pull-down menus and the site map.)
Tips and Tricks
- For each group of pages that have the same subject heading, I create a little template and check list, and then
- usually can use "find and replace" for codes for all open pages in Dreamweaver. They mostly just need to be eliminated, i.e., I replace them with nothing;
- copy what else applies to all pages from the template;
- finally run them through the validator and rarely have to make changes, mostly for quotation marks only on very old pages.
- Sometimes I discover stuff that applies to the entire site, so I fix that globally too, with one click, so to speak.
- I find that I go at a pretty good clip that way.
Month/Year
December 2009
Personal Project or Job?
Non-profit volunteer.
