State of the toolbox

Posted on January 7, 2011

Notes for a presentation 1/7/11

Layout
- photo banner dept banner title (or welcome) (excerpt) body related sidebar (or submenu) featured image elsewhere (widgets only)
- menu to left or right
- widgets (in sidebar or related or elsewhere (plus widgetLogic
- site-specific CSS
- title h3 & highlight div in related or sidebar
- overflowing the related (wide body)
Techniques
- div class= highlight highlight_blue highlight_yellow smaller larger
- archives pages for categories & posts +nav widgets
- Shortcodes
  - get-news faculty course calendar map scrape
- tables &
- embedding youTube
- template: no sidebar
Tools/plugins
- MapPress Pro (maps from addresses in posts
- scraper
- link checker
Sources of content
- Posts on the current site
- Posts on the current site that redirect to other Wheaton sites (news, quarterly, people quilt profiles
- feeds of news from other Wheaton sites (/latest/, new faculty profiles, ??
- Wheaton calendar & sub-calendars
- Faculty profiles current and new coming soon
  - faculty name &/or photo w/link to profile
- Catalog (all w/links to web pages)
  - Course title/description
  - Course lists
  - faculty lists
- Quarterly (spr 2010 through winter 2011 plus feature stories back to ??
- External feeds RSS, Facebook, Twitter, iCal