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Introduction

Welcome to our website log. We're still reconstructing the log's structure in ASP.NET 2.0. It's content will be drawn starting with incomplete ideas from the original log as soon as this is more fully up and running.

In the mean time, feel free to get a sneak peek by checking out the website log for Earth Chronicle 1.0. We also have the original test page that visitors could use to test the functionality that was available to them on the website, depending on their configuration.

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To Do List

  • Finish building Beta Site Pages
    • Contact Form
  • Correct Site Map problem with with Webhost
  • Find out who among the Council is willing to be posted and under what names.
  • Work out the relationship between the Roman Forum and the Breaking News. News sites generally have headlines leading to articles. Something like that? Roman Forum need to have something regularly changing or it's not really interactive and it doesn't really serve the purpose. Is News page redundant? Should we place the links sans commentary (or just a sentence or two) on Roman Forum?
  • How to build Image TOC. One plan... Place subjects in a treeview structure with more specific subjects under more general ones. Add a link for each subject to a list of photos for that topic. Place photos only under the MOST specific subject they qualify for. Too redundant to place a space shuttle picture under flying machines, NASA, spacecraft, and space shuttle; the space shuttle subject will suffice just fine. If they can make it to any of those topics, they'll find space shuttle listed as a topic underneath.
  • a.onclick triggers the src for feedback image to ContactUsHighlighted.jpg?

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Minor To Do List

  • Redo WebpagesComputerLanguages.aspx with <div class="computerCode">
  • Demo format for computerCode, codeNewIndent (Find/Replace codeNewIndent to reflect that other programming languages indent the same way)
  • Why does my transparent png have a border? Doesn't that defeat the purpose? Fix it AND center the text in the image.
  • Confirm that (Samuel??) Slater(?) conducted the first business methods testing in the 1900s. Shovels was
  • Retrieve URL of the page the visitor is contacting us from using for the ASP.NET Contact Us email.

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Done/Posted Questions

  • Find a way to pass parameters to an unobtrusive event handler.
    document.getElementById("ID").onmouseover = function() {FunctionName(parameter1,parameter2)}
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  • Customize Header Navbar for Beta site.
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  • Finished Building Beta Site Pages
    • Website Log
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    • Reader's Guide Beta
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    • FAQ Beta
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    • Test Page
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  • Construct clock field using JS so that field doesn't appear if the user has Javascript disabled? {Even Better. I tossed the text field all together. It was an accessibility impediment anyway. We went back to the drawing board and styled a div for the purpose. Then used the innerHTML of the div's id to write the clock string into the div.}
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  • Convert some of the <br /> fest elements to something more appropriate. Lists. Paragraphs. Whatever. There are other tag choices than what I'm doing. And it'd be much better to do it now before I've got 50 million pages to "save".
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  • Menus are off when Javascript is inactive in IE and FF. Consider making Specific buttons completely different from Site Wide to maximize navigation options?
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Long Term To Do List

  • Create TableOfContentsBeta.aspx
  • Create SiteIndexBeta.aspx (Apply XSLT to site map??)
  • Break Reader's Guide apart. There are users browsing around yes, and they certainly need a more user friendly area. Anything too techie will make them feel like we're telling them to go away no matter how good our intentions. Some of that is simply unavoidable throughout EC Beta. But the Reader's guide should not. The Reader's Guide should be the main intro for anyone. It should then link to a Developer's Guide, people who ARE techies and feel hamstrung without the ability to communicate accurately in the jargon. We can and should include the developer's area in the menu so they have a direct link from any page, just like non-techies. Then the resources available to each group can link off their section. Or am I talking not about the Reader's Guide? Am I talking about building a command central, something similar to the Roman Forum? :( What's the right balance to obtain user feedback but still let the techies get to it? For right now everybody is crowded into the Reader's Guide and by extension the specificMenu04. There has to be a better solution for that.
  • Create Subjects
  • Create ECAN Codes
  • Create Mostly Inaccessible Archive (MIA) and Totally Inaccessible Archive (TIA) for site backup.
  • Create dynamic links? route href= to a page id# and have ASP.NET grab the relevant path from the sitemap?

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