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November 18, 2007

Reading Tea Leaves and Campaign Logos

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The New York Times covers graphic design again! This time it's an op-ed piece, and presented graphically as well. Bias disclosure: I've always liked the political cartoon work of Ward Sutton, who is a fellow St. Olaf alum ('89).

November 08, 2007

Adobe Contribute: New Connection Conundrum

Since hosting some sites with a new central service, Contribute started acting strangely when I was trying to set up the sites for distributed content management. Each time I tried establishing a new connection in Contribute, I was given the message that I already had a connection to that site. How could this be?

After deleting all of Contribute's site files and starting to set up all connections again from scratch, things went fine with the first site...and then I got the message yet again!

It was not until I looked closely at the web server > web addresses > alternate web addresses panel of Administration (click on image above to enlarge) that I spotted the problem. Contribute was pulling in other URLs from the previously-established connections into these new accounts. Why, I still have not figured out. But once I deleted these, there was no more conflict and Contribute started to play nice with new connections once again.

November 01, 2007

2007 Outstanding Web Site Award

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This week the Orientation & First-Year Programs web site received national recognition, being named the 2007 Outstanding Orientation Web Site at the annual conference of the National Orientation Directors Association.

Beth, Nicole, Bill, and Dan in OFYP played major roles in making sure this project was the success that it has become. Congratulations—it has been a pleasure working with you on the new page template, taxonomy, and site navigation.

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