http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/ 2008-08-13T12:36:04+01:00 http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/ http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-08-13T12:29:58+01:00 Andrew Harris (aharris@128.250.168.198) http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/doku.php/templates/images A central gallery of icons and banners provides a stable URL for use in CSS customisations. If you make icons or banners, you can upload them to the gallery for others to use. You can the photoshop master files for icons and banners from the galle... text/html 2008-07-09T13:49:13+01:00 Andrew Harris (aharris@128.250.168.198) http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/doku.php/technique/optimising_images Most people can muddle around Photoshop and get a result out, but good results are very rare. It’s not hard, so here are some simple steps to creating better looking (and more efficient) images on the web. This isn’t an exact recipe, jus... text/html 2008-07-09T12:58:11+01:00 Andrew Harris (aharris@128.250.168.198) http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/doku.php/start Welcome to the Web Development Wiki at The University of Melbourne. The aim of this wiki is to provide a ‘best practice’ reference for web developers using Dreamweaver, HTML and the CMS within the University web environment. The site is... text/html 2008-04-04T13:34:34+01:00 Andrew Harris (aharris@128.250.168.198) http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/doku.php/technique/banner_ad_basics Ask a few web users what they think of banner ads and you’ll get back a range of firm opinions peppered with words like: distracting, annoying, ignore, useless, frustrating. It’s perfectly clear that people don’t like banner ads. O... text/html 2008-02-01T14:46:54+01:00 Andrew Harris (aharris@128.250.168.198) http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/doku.php/templates/javascript/menu The menu script adds functionality to the navigation menu in the standard template. How to use the menu script The menu functions are part of the core.js file linked from the standard template by default. Users do not need to do anything special ... text/html 2008-01-23T13:30:51+01:00 Andrew Harris (aharris@128.250.168.198) http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/doku.php/templates/wordpress Although not officially supported at enterprise level, Wordpress offers the features most people seek in blog software. This is a very standard blog template which uses familiar styles such as the uni menu and sidebar to display pages, categories a... text/html 2008-01-23T13:28:27+01:00 Andrew Harris (aharris@128.250.168.198) http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/doku.php/templates/cms The new web templates are available for use in the CMS on a ‘beta’ basis. That is, we welcome testing, but support is limited and use on a public facing site is entirely the responsibility of the site administrator. There are issues, bu... text/html 2008-01-22T13:56:43+01:00 Andrew Harris (aharris@128.250.168.198) http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/doku.php/templates/issues Issues Register Active [css | forms | safari] A specific bug has surfaced in the Safari browser (probably also Konqueror) that makes forms using the contentform.css disappear! The bug has been triggered by the bug fix for the block content float ... text/html 2008-01-18T17:00:07+01:00 Andrew Harris (aharris@128.250.168.198) http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/doku.php/templates This page will be the central source of information regarding use of the university web templates. Topics will be added in time. Using templates for: Templates for Dreamweaver Templates for the CMS Templates for Wordpress Template Components ... text/html 2008-01-18T16:45:20+01:00 Andrew Harris (aharris@128.250.168.198) http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/doku.php/templates/dreamweaver The new templates are supplied as a zip package containing three folders that should be familiar to users of the current university template. Setting up to use the templates to create or upgrade a site is a simple process. Follow the steps below wit... text/html 2007-11-19T17:01:31+01:00 Andrew Harris (aharris@128.250.168.198) http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/doku.php/personal/aharris/wcm07 The inaugural WordCamp Melbourne was held on Saturday, November 17 at the Watermark Bar in Docklands. WordCamp is a conference for those people who use WordPress: web developers, marketers, plugin developers, designers... it’s a versatile web ... text/html 2007-11-19T13:36:10+01:00 Andrew Harris (aharris@128.250.168.198) http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/doku.php/personal This section is for individual contributions related to web development, but not directly related to the templates and not in any particular structure. Recent Items WordCamp Melbourne 2007, by Andrew Harris Web Directions South 2007, by Andrew H... text/html 2007-11-07T09:42:40+01:00 Andrew Harris (aharris@128.250.168.198) http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/doku.php/templates/javascript/email_munger The old email munger is not directly supported in the new templates, however it can be activated. Simply refer to the old javascript in the header of your page: <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="... text/html 2007-10-15T16:00:54+01:00 Andrew Harris (aharris@128.250.168.198) http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/doku.php/personal/aharris/wds07/aaron_gustafson Aaron’s presentation was not earth shattering, but he stepped through the development of a form in detail using a very solid and logical framework. I was left with mixed feelings after this. About a year back when I was wondering how best to ... text/html 2007-10-15T11:23:07+01:00 Andrew Harris (aharris@128.250.168.198) http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/doku.php/personal/aharris/wds07 Notes by Andrew Harris Introduction Web Directions South is the fourth annual conference in a series which started as ‘Web Essentials’ and has grown enormously, being forced each year to seek new venues and now with a highly successf... text/html 2007-10-12T16:35:35+01:00 Andrew Harris (aharris@128.250.168.198) http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/doku.php/personal/aharris/wds07/mark_pesce Mark was the closing keynote at the last conference. He was good then. This time he just about the crowd stomping their feet and cheering. Mark told a story about the fishermen of Kerala in southern India, who would go offshore, out of sight of lan... text/html 2007-10-12T15:59:55+01:00 Andrew Harris (aharris@128.250.168.198) http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/doku.php/personal/aharris/wds07/adrian_holovaty Adrian is an interesting chap. As web journalist, he is famous for having created the chicago crime mashup - arguably the one that popularised the whole mashup craze. He’s also created the Washington Post's Faces of the Fallen mashup, and is t... text/html 2007-10-12T15:02:54+01:00 Andrew Harris (aharris@128.250.168.198) http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/doku.php/personal/aharris/wds07/alex_young_and_rob_manson Of all the sessions I attended, this was probably the weakest in terms of content. On the other hand it was one of the best in terms of interaction. Alex and Rob run a business delivering mobile business solutions, so by necessity they tended to ta... text/html 2007-10-12T13:37:23+01:00 Andrew Harris (aharris@128.250.168.198) http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/doku.php/personal/aharris/wds07/george_oates George Oates I think surprised a fair proportion of the audience by being 1) female and 2) Australian. As one of the founders of flickr though, she is web royalty and was keenly listened to. She started by talking about traffic, shared spaces, chao... text/html 2007-10-12T12:10:03+01:00 Andrew Harris (aharris@128.250.168.198) http://wiki.webcentre.unimelb.edu.au/doku.php/personal/aharris/wds07/scott_berkun Scott is an excellent speaker, highly entertaining and perceptive. He was talking about the myth of innovation - that innovation is some kind of epiphany that will just come to you. The word “innovation” is ambiguous. According to Scott...