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| If it looks like you're in over your head, we still have lots of ways for you to help. As we design these pages and ideas, we need your feedback so that they work properly. If you can't build these features but want to be the first to check them out, visit our Beta Website and email us know with what you think. If you see something you are interested in working on, email us with your ideas. We'd love to work with you, and we'll try to put together a team to assist you. If you are interested in writing webpages for us, check out our Webpage Design Principles. All pages should conform to these principles so that all our pages function the same way for visitors. Most are simply good tips for writing webpages that any designer can use. You do not have to be well-versed in HTML, most of the articles we receive can be shoved into a template and adjusted. This requires very little work, but someone still has to DO it. This is also a good way to learn HTML and how to build your own webpages, working with one of our editors to prepare submissions for posting online. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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2005/11/08 Chroniclemaster1 Switch to the new website structure. This will make the dates look funny. The original index.html has now been revamped into the Roman Forum (RomanForum.html) and carries the original date 2005/4/6. The new index.html will therefore only carry today's date of 2005/11/8, a little weird, but then that's nothing new for us. |
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Test a couple different scenarios on librariansd account for Council to examine. Add and test form components again, to see if they'll work with the new alternate email address. (Double check that alternate email works while you're at it.) Then try possible frame/navbar variations to get council feedback. |
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2005/08/06 Chroniclemaster1 To make things MORE confusing, we are growing. Fortunately, we have bought ourselves a Domain name, so hopefully people will find us more easily. :) Unfortunately, Pages of History was taken. :( Fortunately, the webcouncil and I found a very good one, EarthChronicle.com. :) Unfortunately, now we have to change EVERY appearance of the name, everywhere on the website. :( For historical purposes and since I want the website log to reflect all the messy little development issues for the website… and let’s face it, it makes one less page I have to redo ;) I am going to leave all the references to Pages of History as is on this page. So if you don’t know Pages of History was the original name for the website, and refers to EarthChronicle.com. |
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2005/07/01 Chroniclemaster1 Add Top 10 Most Wanted List, of the most important gaps or changes to be made to the site. |
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Users beware of glitches. |
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Redo guestbook as Form components, more professional than asking questions in the Guestbook. Form components aren’t working any better than the guestbook did. *sigh* Apparently until someone takes this on who can program something interactive themselves, we won’t have a “type your question here” feature. For now, we’ve fallen back to a simple email link to chroniclemaster1@yahoo.com if people have questions. (2005/7/1 Chroniclemaster1) |
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More fully articulate beta site? or call this the main site with hopes to move? |
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2005/11/08 Chroniclemaster1 Redo Index.html as a simpler text webpage and convert the current complicated looking page into the basis for RomanForum.html, the interaction page. |
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Administrative Pages |
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2005/07/01 Chroniclemaster1 Restructure Philosophy by points |
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2005/10/18 Chroniclemaster1 Compare and contrast the wiki & moderated formats. |
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2005/10/18 Chroniclemaster1 Research and write "3 cigars" article. Philosophy is technically restructured, now let’s finish it which is the real point. (2005/5/27 Chroniclemaster1) |
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Add copyright and public domain policies to Reader’s Guide. Brief descriptions of eras and regions. |
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2005/08/22 Chroniclemaster1 Add AD vs. CE. policies to Reader’s Guide. Explain date format: 2005/7/1. |
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2005/07/01 Chroniclemaster1 Create: Editor/Submission Recruitment Page We need researchers (submissions), editors & proofreaders. |
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Create Timelines and geography indexes. |
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All pages should link to index.html, Readers Guide to Pages of History, and have at least a link (if not the actual html forms) to submit a question or note something that’s incorrect or out of date. Should also have timeline and geography bars… |
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Facing a real problem, this is important, but it needs to be added to every page individually. And even a small change would require tediously redoing EVERY page. These should really be done as a borderless frame. It’d look like a natural part of every page and all the information would then exist in one easily updatable file, except we don’t have anyone to build it. (2005/7/1 Chroniclemaster1) Possible solution. I'm learning to do frames with the rest of my HTML programming. A frame centered nav bar is possibly within reach, if I can just get some time in the next week or two. Trouble is, it probably has to be an alternative rather than the main page. Therefore the main header nav bar on each page should focus on the main pages, and possibly a customized footer bar on topics related to the content. Is this then the basis of the main timeline page? That's been a disconcertingly open question since April. Possibly color code the bar(?) and then give brief explanations of each geographic region and era. That then would be where those pages link in. More natural than on the Reader's Guide? With the addition of subject search and site index pages, there's definitely much less emphasis on Timelines as the core of the website. I still want them to take advantage of HTML architecture to link directly to the related content. I think for a number of issues, especially history, art, anything where chronology or location is important that the Timelines will make a much wiser way to look up material. Subjects and site index let you look up things you know. Timelines will actually teach you what you don't know to ask, and then let's you link to the answers. (2005/8/26 Chroniclemaster1) Frames are possible but causing some problems. Navbar design needs to be simplified too. Both issues are posted on the Beta site for comment. Now I just have to learn site promotion to get some people to look at it. *sigh* One problem seems to lead to another. Though I found a Javascript for changing CSS styles and it's possible that a script for the header navbar (the footer should be customized for each page) might solve the navbar problem. It's certainly seems like what the major websites do, ie combine tables and scripts. (2005/11/7 Chroniclemaster1) |
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Administrative core website structure It’s 4am and its done! I can’t believe it, but the Core administrative architecture is finished: Index, Timelines (admittedly half finished), Philosophy, Reader’s Guide (admittedly very rudimentary), Website Log, and in a 6 hour stretch last night… all the Recruitment pages came together. I still need to set all the links and polish all the essays. Also need to include navigation bars (timeline and geography bars) and index and reader’s guide links on all pages to standardize page architecture. Every pages should also note contributors, and date. But all the pieces are now there. (2005/6/11 Chroniclemaster1) Revising all pages in a standardized more professional form, basically rebuilding the website from scratch. I’m considering what’s up now as a slapdash rough draft, since, well, that’s exactly what it was. (2005/7/26 Chroniclemaster1) |
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Work in Eras |
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Work in website structure for the article side |
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2005/07/01 Chroniclemaster1 Add real bibliography. |
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Possible navbar variations…
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Add a page on Copyright considerations. |
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Map Central2005/05/25 Chroniclemaster1 Build topographical map pages from SRTM data maps. Map Central finished and index.html links to it. All continental and regional maps can be reached directly from Map Central and maps also link to maps for adjacent regions and continents. (2005/5/25 Chroniclemaster1) |
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Redo topographical maps at Map Central so that each page begins with a small (100kB or less) image and provides a link to the larger more detailed map if desired. |
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Slice image and add rollover of black and white image of each continent with the continents name. Link the image to the continents small image page. A version is up at http://www.geocities.com/darth333vader which I hope will become the home of Map Central. That way if there's too much activity, only Map Central will go down for an hour, and the rest of the site will be fine. Too hard to transfer PageBuilder pages to a different website however. So I need to build an hand-written version of the Map Central Template (with my own graphic for the background) and put things together. (2005/8/26 Chroniclemaster1) |
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Find a way to add roll-over topographical and/or political details that will inform without destroying the simplicity of the original SRTM maps. |
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From SRTM, build data maps (anaglyph images?), black and white maps for modification. Picasa2 produces black and white pictures infinitely superior to the anaglyphs. |
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Build from black and white maps breakdown of geographic areas used in text. |
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Build from black and white maps Haywood-style maps of civilizations. |
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Build SRTM pages and link to them (for now from Coming soon) ????????website architecture?????? where the hell was I planning to link the actual History stuff in?!?!?! Use Photoshop trial to build roll-over topography name maps, black and white breakdown of geographic areas used in the text (unless this is the same as the roll-over topography names??), and build Map Central image that lets you click continents to link to the main maps (slice main image and black/white rollover continents to the appropriate map) (2005/7/1 Chroniclemaster1) |
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Bibliography.html2005/07/01 Chroniclemaster1 Create internal links from the top to the title, topic, and ratings lists and from every entry in those lists to the main annotated entry. |
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Add 2 discussion boards. One for serious history, allows submitters, editors, researchers to post messages for one another, discuss points in public for comment, ask questions, and make Pages of History more interactive for visitors, etc. The other for political/interpretive discussion where people can vent less formally developed ideas and celebrate the diversity of ideas we hope to encourage without the necessity for rigidly researched references, vigorous approval process, etc., etc. |
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Make 5 dispersed copies of information on different servers to parcel data against system failures of all kinds. Ideally, there would be as many backup servers as widely distributed as possible. (e.g. If there were 5 servers and all five go down there's no more backup. If there were a hundred servers and five went down, only a small proportion of information would actually be lost). |
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TIA and MIA systems (Totally and Mostly isolated archives) Ideally all information should also be archived offline. The MIA system could take advantage of limited access to outside files, possibly excluding, possibly including internet access. However, this would make it possible to archive everything from the website to a relatively secure platform that lives mostly away from internet contact. MIA functions effectively as a quarantined system to safeguard information. TIA is simply the most extreme version of this. TIA would never be online or have access to other media. In its most extreme form, the only input to a TIA system would be keyboard and mouse, with all webpages retyped by hand into the archive (obviously sans multimedia files of any kind, text only). In theory TIA would be absolutely secure from everything except physical malfunction. When information is needed from the archive, it would be easy to retrieve it from MIA, by writing to DVD, swappable hard drive, etc. and transferring the information back to the internet server. For security, an extreme TIA would only be able to share information by writing to a swappable hard drive (preferably a new one) or some media drive that was Write only, probably difficult to find off the shelf. E.G. if there were a write only DVD drive available it could be safely attached to a TIA system to burn information in the TIA archive enabling the information to be uploaded back to the server. |
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Add personality and learning style ratings and searches. People should be able to rate pages for content and style (with a form box to notify us of any errors or problems). People should also be able to search the site for articles they are interested in. These two features should ideally tie in with people's personality and learning style so that their searches turn up articles best suited for them and their ratings serve as markers to other people with similar learning styles. Everyone starts out with simply a general profile, probably using only a "if you like this page, you'll like this one..." format. However by taking a series short psychological tests, we can give people a reasonable suggestion as to how best to configure their personality and learning style settings. Preferably we would not hold this information to ensure people’s privacy. Quick and dirty approximations of the Strong-Campbell categories (perhaps as simple as the hexagon party room where people are asked their first, second and third choices of groups) and/or Myers-Briggs types would probably be sufficient for personality guides. Visual vs. audio, etc. would be one important class of learning styles to determine, but there are certainly other important ways for people to configure their interface to best suit them that go far beyond such a simple determination. |
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Build a library of original texts (by jpegs if necessary for documents created before printing was standardized and letters/characters are open to interpretation). Then provide text of the documents alongside to make difficult documents readable. Poetry/Shakespeare would probably have Arden-style notes and possibly full metrical analysis. Materials in a foreign language should have gradations of translations (Perrill breakdown) into idiomatic English. Hopefully include other services like Public Domain image galleries and quotation reference guides. |
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Develop a governing structure for Pages of History. Perhaps along the following lines. A democratic legislative body that sets business and changes by a supermajority (55% minimum) with an elected more conservative Senate that it shares power with. An elected president, and committees (effectively judicial) that oversee all aspects of the website. Judicial, executive, and legislative should share checks and balances and legislative divided into the democratic assembly and the more cautious Senate with checks and balances over each other. |
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| Author: | chroniclemaster1 | Date Received: | 2005/06/11 |
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| Editor: | chroniclemaster1 | First Date Posted: | 2005/09/02 |
| Proofreader: | chroniclemaster1 | Last Date Revised: | 2005/11/08 |
| Researcher(s): | chroniclemaster1 | ||
| Subjects: | Administrative | ||
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