December 12 2008 WEBMASTER MEETING December 12 2008

December 12, 2008 WEBMASTER MEETING

December 12, 2008 WEBMASTER MEETING • Weir 107 • Podcasts • Meeting schedule

“Magnolia Bowl” In May, the ASB conducted a survey to get student suggestions for the name of the annual Ole Miss vs. LSU game. Some of the other names not chosen: The Muddy River Rivalry The Crawfish Bowl The Poverty Bowl The Hurricane Bowl The Geauxlden Magnolia Battle of I-55 Battle for the Dixie Cup Battle to Raise Admission Standards 49 th vs. 50 th

Cedar Upgrade Success Apache 2. 2. 9, My. SQL 5. 0. 67, PHP 5. 2. 6 Lessons Learned: Remember command line My. SQL and make the php. My. Admin authentication as streamlined as possible! Dumped databases don’t always conform to import rules. (Field names like “show, ” “ssl”, and “continue” had to be changed to import them. ) Don’t expect new versions to act the same as the old ones. If the real and test servers aren’t configured identically, expect different results.

Coverpop "Imagine a very large coffee table strewn with magazines or books, but you can point at any one of them and it flies up and into full view right away. Now imagine the coffee table as a web page, and you've got Coverpop, yet another great webhack from Jim Bumgardner. " --Peter Kaminski You. Tube: Top Rated www. coverpop. com/pop/youtubet/ Flickr: Stick Figures in Peril www. coverpop. com/pop/flickr_stickfigures/

Craigslist Caper “…a brazen crook apparently used a Craigslist ad to hire a dozen unsuspecting decoys to help him make his getaway following a robbery outside a bank…” “In case anyone was hot on his trail, he had at least a dozen unsuspecting decoys waiting nearby, which he recruited on Craigslist. ” “(One of the decoys) also was told to wear certain work clothing… Yellow vest, safety goggles, a respirator mask… and, if possible, a blue shirt. . . ” www. king 5. com/topstories/NW_100108 WA B_monroe_robber_floating_escape_TP. ce 3930 c 1. ht ml

Nvu Web Authoring Software Free software: net 2. com/nvu

Fresh Page Designs

New Design Considerations Front page contents Logo & name Targeted links News, calendar, bulletin board Legal stuff Photo Links, links

New Design Considerations Layout Creativity Structure Text Marketing Buzzwords

New Design Considerations Real estate placement Non-Flash animation Space-saving quicklinks Graphics integrated with overall design (vs. clipart) Table-less construction Organization of content

New Design Considerations How should the page render on different sized screens?

Design Considerations Secondary pages Consistent style Succinct organization Customized search screen

New Design Considerations Photographs How prominent? Fixed, random, swapping? How many – montage? File size / delivery time? What of? Copyright worries? Multimedia?

New Design Considerations Use of Flash?

Next Meeting… January 9