This has been great information. I'm definitely interested in joining a discussion group! Lisa Anderson Graphic & Web Designer University of Minnesota Printing Services 612.625.7802 Hours: M-F, 7am – 1:30pm For assistance after 1:30pm, please contact Shawn Welch at 625-8064. On Dec 14, 2011, at 1:48 PM, Toni Prekker wrote: > 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 > [log in to unmask] > > > > 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] > > > >