Git lost

Four things learned in today’s session: There is a difference between the Mac and Windows versions of Git which made our session slightly frustrating. Right now our git only goes to Alex’s server, not to the cloud. Eventually we’ll have a virtual server on our workstations. Git will keep track...

Wrangling with Git

Today’s session on Git, though still frustrating due to glitches in the Windows program, helped clarify the application. Here are the four things I learned: Github is an application - it’s the tool to manage source code for each project. Github.com is the website which is a hosting service for...

Web Design

From our session today, 12/17/13, on web design principles: The 3 elements of web design are: Layout; Typography; Color. Non-overlapping vs. overlapping design refers to the imaginary boxes either not touching or bleeding into each other. Responsive design  - site adjusts to screen size. CSS rules give instructions on print...

PHP Programming, Part 2

Four things from today’s session on PHP: PHP runs on the server to generate webpages; Javascript runs on the browser to animate your webpage. Functions are the most common way to organize code; can be built-in or user-defined. Functions can be named and then executed when called. Syntax: echo means...

Editorial Team Update, May 12, 2015

The Editorial Team (Nick Patterson and Anice Mills) led a discussion of Dublin Core requirements for the Morningside Heights Digital History project. We reviewed the metadata fields as defined by Omeka: https://omeka.org/codex/Working_with_Dublin_Core and also looked at a variety of Omeka exhibits to see how they have defined and used the...