On the fly

I’m so excited about this project. Librarians are accustomed to learning technology on the fly.  We’re efficient: copying another page’s source code and substituting our own content was one way to get things done quickly when there wasn’t time to build something from the ground up.  It’s wonderful to have...

Showing Change

I was curious to see how Omeka sites have illustrated population growth and other changes over time.  I was hoping to find something similar to the Pastmapper site about Greenwich Village, which takes a street in Greenwich village and incorporates census and building data.  It is not an Omeka site,...

Fire and Water

On the southwest corner of 113th and Amsterdam stand two of the older buildings in Morningside Heights:  the Croton Aqueduct 113th Street gatehouse (1876)  and the  Engine Company No. 47 firehouse (1890).   I am researching  the role that the aqueduct and the fire department played in the early development...

Improving Our WordPress Blog

Tuesday’s session was primarily about how to deal with a specific issue in our developing librarian blog.  We decided that we would like to share our “four things” among ourselves (and with anyone else who is interested), but we didn’t want to overwhelm the blog with repetitive content. Bob and...

Gitting Up to Speed

Today we got our hands on Git. We’d already installed the software on our office desktops, but it wasn’t installed on the 306 workstations, so we needed to download and install it on the DHC computers for our group session. Four things: snake_case and CamelCase. We used snake_case to name our...

Site design

Everything you do in design should have a reason. Basic elements of a web page: header, body, sidebar, footer Dividing horizontal space in thirds is eye pleasing and harmonious We will need to design five types of pages: front page, item page, collection page, exhibit page, and neatline exhibit page...

Design

Alex reprised the Design session from 10/29 because so many of us were out that day. Today’s four things: the most important design elements for two-dimensional design are: color, typography, layout The difference between overlapping and non-overlapping design Responsive design instructions, for laptop: 900 px, for tablet: 250 px, for phone: 100...

PHP Intro

We had a great PHP intro from Alex. I really liked the way Alex taught the class. He had about 7 slides and with each slide, he showed us some code and then asked us what we thought it would do.  Then we pasted the code in a scripting site to...

git reset --hard origin

Meredith, Bob, and I met this afternoon.  Our assignment from Alex: Put an issue on github create an item in our individual omeka installations. Then back up the database. create a branch called playground and break the site I ran into some problems early on.  My commits were out of...