CFANS Web Log http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/ en Copyright 2011 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:55:32 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.31-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Site Studio Manager Site Studio Manager would not show up when I went into contribution mode, until I removed my fragment containing the CSS for the U's new 960 templates. Not sure what's going on there, but it wasted half my day.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2009/03/site_studio_manager.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2009/03/site_studio_manager.html UMContent Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:55:32 -0600 Urban Planet troubles We discovered a problem with some of the Urban Planet sites today. Sites that were transferred to the new server no longer let you delete .pdf files, even though permissions are all set correctly.

The workarounds:
Either just turn off your .pdf, so that it doesn't display, or contact me or Shuping & have us manually delete the file(s) from your uploads folder.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2009/01/urban_planet_troubles.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2009/01/urban_planet_troubles.html Urban Planet Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:01:29 -0600 Water lilies.jpg

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2008/12/post.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2008/12/post.html Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:46:12 -0600 Updating google If your site has been redesigned & you need to get your old pages indexed & your new pages crawled ASAP, send an email with the URL of the site in question to Curt Squires.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2008/12/updating_google.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2008/12/updating_google.html Tips 'n' Tricks Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:56:29 -0600 testing images in MovableType blank.jpg

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2008/12/testing_images_in_movabletype.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2008/12/testing_images_in_movabletype.html current projects Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:57:02 -0600 Vital addendum for UMContent Before you open any templates, make sure you've gone in & turned off the "Apply automatic formatting" option.

If you don't, it will wreck your doctype & add extra spaces where you do not want them. And then you will cry.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2008/12/vital_addendum_for_umcontent.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2008/12/vital_addendum_for_umcontent.html UMContent Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:25:59 -0600 splat! Huzzah! The pages work!

The key to removing the main content's overlap of the footer:

Make sure the page has the proper XHTML doctype and add a clearing break in here:
<!--END MAIN CONTENT --><br class="clearfloat" />
</div><!--END BODY CONTAINER -->

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2008/12/splat.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2008/12/splat.html UMContent Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:16:44 -0600 Fighting bugs We launched the FSCN website last week & things promptly broke. The right column was too narrow in IE & the center column often overlaps the footer in Firefox.

It's frustrating, since these were not issues when we used the exact same files on the dev server.

Things I have figured out today that have squashed the IE problems:
Changed the doctype for all pages to XHTML in the templates.

Went to View > Customize > Source View & unchecked "Apply automatic formatting"

Then deleted ALL extra space in the HTML in the header & breadcrumb area. Any black space in the HTML is getting included as space by IE, even though it should technically ignore it.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2008/12/fighting_bugs.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2008/12/fighting_bugs.html UMContent Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:54:00 -0600 Note to self Any image uploaded into UMContent seems to be converted to a .jpg, even if it is uploaded as a .gif. This can wreak havoc with your page if you don't remember to change the .gif to .jpg in your stylesheets.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2008/12/note_to_self.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2008/12/note_to_self.html UMContent Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:28:13 -0600 Bit by bit I am trying to edit my demo template for the new CFANS sites & UMContent is driving me crazy. Why does it seem to lose the association between images/css that I upload & the site? They will show up briefly in the Site Assets area, but vanish if I switch to another asset type.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2008/12/bit_by_bit.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2008/12/bit_by_bit.html UMContent Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:11:46 -0600 Hello World! I thought I'd start a blog to easily update people on the current state of the CFANS web world.

FSCN is our UMContent pilot project. The plan is for their new site to go live Dec. 12th. I've spent much of the past 2 weeks trouble-shooting all of the little things that have cropped up. It doesn't help that UMContent seems to spontaneously re-write the template code. Things that were working will suddenly break and we don't know why. I think we have most of the kinks worked out (for the FSCN site, at least) and will be ready to launch next week.

I'm starting to work on creating template fragments for the next batch of CFANS sites that will be moved into UMContent. The U is releasing new templates sometime in the next few months and we'll need to incorporate the revised headers & footers. Fortunately, I've been given a pre-release version of them so that I can start the design process. Eventually, all CFANS sites in UMContent will pull the global header & footer from a single file, which should make updating sites much easier than it's been in the past. I've had to update the header/footer on 100+ sites manually and it takes quite a while.

I'm also working on general template design for CFANS, since the U is switching to a new 960 pixel wide recommendation. (Most of our current sites are 760 pixels wide.)

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2008/12/hello_world.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lamxx025/cfansweb/2008/12/hello_world.html current projects Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:13:14 -0600