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From: Toni Prekker <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:48:55 -0600
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Wendy Volkman and I had planned to organize some brownbag discussion groups
after the new year on topics such as this.  We don't have anything
coordinated yet, but this sounds like as good a topic as any.

I'd be happy to organize a small group to get together and have a
discussion (since I've supposed to have been working on just this thing for
months now).  I can host at CTS if that is convenient for others.

If you're interested, let me know and I can start coordinating calendars.


Toni A Prekker
Web Coordinator
Center for Transportation Studies
University of Minnesota
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Jeffrey Abuzzahab <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> All of this information is great! I think we need to have a Web Standards
> meeting devoted to the discussion.
>
> I am happy to speak as the newcomer with some basic sites and why/how we
> are adding WP to our toolbox.
>
> I am instilled with the confidence now to improve my modified theme and
> call it my own... or maybe Wilbur, that is a good name.
>
> Web Standards rocks!
>
> -Jeff
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Tim Beaufoy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>  We did build the new Advances site for the School of Public Health
>> using Wordpress. http://www.advances.umn.edu/
>>
>> I usually build all of my themes from the ground up for the most part. Or
>> I'll take an existing theme if it's necessary and strip the life out of it
>> so it's a complete custom build. For the Advances site, the default index
>> file (page) is a custom page mainly static PHP that pulls many of our feeds
>> in from other sites we host. I have created a few custom loops that pull
>> news content in from the actual WP database. Additionally, we created a
>> fully customized mobile version of this site too.
>>
>> I don't believe WP looks for broken divs in the code to my knowledge, I
>> usually use the developer tool bar or firebug to check for errors like
>> that. The only issues I've noticed is our feeds and YouTube embeds throw
>> some validation errors, but we need our videos to work on the mobile
>> platform for all devices. Which has proven to be a challenge being that
>> YouTube hasn't supplied good "embed" fix for this yet to our knowledge,
>> other than the new html5 iframe embed.
>>
>> I've never run into a version upgrade that has yet to affect the themes,
>> but then again 3.3 is out now and that will have to be monitored when we
>> make the upgrade. If we ever need to use a similar theme for our other site
>> brands, I'll keep the same structure created, then tweak or apply changes
>> once integrated. We originally were going to go with the multisite setup,
>> but realized it was still a bit too quarky for our needs. I hope WP will
>> focus more on the multisite development in the near future. I think there's
>> a lot of potential there.
>>
>> Wordpress is fantastic and I've yet to find something I can't do with it
>> yet. If there ever is a group discussion, I'd love to be a part of it.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Tim Beaufoy
>> Web Developer/Designer
>>
>> School of Public Health
>> University of Minnesota
>> 612-625-3218
>>
>> Room A-302 Mayo MMC 197
>> 420 Delaware Street SE
>> Minneapolis, MN 55455
>>
>> www.sph.umn.edu
>>
>>
>> On 12/14/2011 8:34 AM, Jeffrey Abuzzahab wrote:
>>
>> Nice and clean! I like your sites much better than my Twenty Ten mod.
>>
>> Did you build the theme from the ground up? If yes:
>>
>> Did you run into any problems using your own HTML? Did WP ever try
>> looking for a div that was missing, or if you get the PHP in the right
>> place you are good to go!
>>
>> Do version upgrades to WP impact your theme?
>>
>> Is the same theme used for all three sites? Is a parent-child theme
>> method used.
>>
>> This is great inspiration! I think WP is going to be a seamless part of
>> our web systems. Thanks for sharing!
>>
>> -Jeff
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Rachel Lam <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> I've made a variation of the UofM template that we're using in CFANS.
>>> a couple live sites:
>>> http://canolaresearch.horticulture.umn.edu/
>>> http://enology.umn.edu/
>>> http://fpmdi.bbe.umn.edu/
>>>
>>> I'm happy to talk about it with anyone who is interested.
>>>
>>> - Rachel
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Jeffrey Abuzzahab <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> >
>>>  > Hey!
>>> >
>>> > We are using Wordpress for some academic projects here, some of which
>>> will
>>> > be public facing.
>>> >
>>> > I modified a copy of the Twenty Ten theme to include the UofM header
>>> and
>>> > footer and it seems to be working alright.
>>> >
>>> > Before I finalize this for production I wondered if anyone else is
>>> working
>>> > in Wordpress and would be up for discussing lessons learned making a
>>> UofM
>>> > theme.
>>> >
>>> > Keep the css separate, unique ways to make a parent theme... etc.
>>> >
>>> > I think it will be a fun discussion!
>>> >
>>> > -Jeff
>>> --
>>>  Rachel Lam
>>> Information Technology Professional
>>> College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences
>>> 101 Coffey Hall
>>> 1420 Eckles Ave
>>> University of Minnesota
>>> St. Paul, MN 55108
>>> Phone: 612-624-3619
>>> Email: [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jeffrey Faruk Abuzzahab
>> Web and Multimedia Lead
>> College of Education & Human Development
>> Tel: 612-624-6034 | E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>>
>> Can't get a hold of me?
>> Contact the web team at [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Tim Beaufoy
>> Web Developer/Designer
>>
>> School of Public Health
>> University of Minnesota
>> 612-625-3218
>>
>> Room A-302 Mayo MMC 197
>> 420 Delaware Street SE
>> Minneapolis, MN 55455
>>
>> www.sph.umn.edu
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Jeffrey Faruk Abuzzahab
> Web and Multimedia Lead
> College of Education & Human Development
> Tel: 612-624-6034 | E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
> Can't get a hold of me?
> Contact the web team at [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
>


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