My relationship with this technology is complicated. Sometimes we feel so close, and other times so far away. Right now it feels a little rocky. We get along so well when we’re together so why do I forget so much about you when we’re apart?
Our Sidebar subgroup, me, Mary and Nick, have completed our task of designing the blog sidebar. We included a link to the syllabus (under Resources) as Alex requested, and focused on simplicity.
I found this tool in Bamboo DiRT under the category Communicate with Colleagues. Piazza is an open-source web-based discussion tool that works like a chat room. Here’s the link: https://piazza.com/ It’s promoted as a more efficient way to engage in classroom Q&A but I can also see its value in...
I am investigating the development of Riverside Park and its landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted. I’ll be looking at Riverside Park in the vicinity of Morningside Heights, so from approximately 110th St. to 125th St. This area includes Grant’s Tomb and the Amiable Child Monument, both of which are possible...
From our meeting with Breck on 9/17/13 I took away these four things: Source code control is external to our site. We will use Git to allow collaboration on code and to keep track of changes. This also enables versioning and being able to roll back changes. LITO is more...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Design Team has been grappling with both design principles and the complexities of Adobe Illustrator. We presented two options for website logos that we created in Adobe Illustrator to the larger group and after a democratic vote, one was chosen. Before we got to this stage though, we first...
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...