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News Websites: Make Your News Readable!
For anyone involved in web development for news publications, one of the most important aspects of the website is its textual layout. Your site must be readable on a variety of devices, and, failing that, you should try to make it look great on at least one platform (usually the desktop browser)—typically other platforms will follow.
There are a few things to watch out for:
- You can have lines too close together—use line-height to give proper spacing/breathing room between consecutive lines of text.
- You can have paragraphs too close together—add some...
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The Real-Time Web – Staying Relevant
Something I posted on the Archdiocese of St. Louis' Development Website earlier today:
Continue readingAs technology has progressed in the past hundred years, the amount of information that is immediately accessible has increased at an exponential rate. As time goes on, people are more and more used to the idea of immediate gratification when it comes to images, text, and stories from events.
There is a new term phrased to wrap up this near-instantaneous stream of live information produced around the world: the 'real-time web.'
But what exactly is the real-time...
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Connecting to the Facebook API
Facebook has a lot of data available to website developers through their Open Graph API, and Facebook also offers a ton of nice features to web developers to tie into Facebook's user profiles, commenting system, 'Like' system, etc.
While it may be argued how tightly your site should integrate with Facebook for a user's interaction with your site (do you really want something as essential as login to depend on an external service?), it is not a hard decision to allow some degree of Facebook integration with your site—after all,...
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The Parish Website: An Essential Tool for Ministry
Jeff's post here on OSCatholic titled "What Makes a Good Parish Website?" brought me to brainstorm and design a PowerPoint presentation for clergy and parish staff/volunteers in the Diocese of Sacramento, to get folks moving in the right direction.
On Tuesday, June 1, 2010, I delivered this presentation to ~100 attendees at our first annual diocesan Stewardship Conference.
I recorded the audio on my Olympus WS-300M and edited it with Propaganda. Then, I broke the audio into 21 separate files to match the 21 slides of...
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From the Catholic Media Conference (in LA)
It looks like @iJimCoyle is tweeting from the Catholic Media Conference in Louisiana this week. Found today on his Twitter stream:
New Media & New Evangelization: 5 Ways to Make a Difference (from Sr Rose Pacatte FSP)
Continue reading- Become mindful media consumers by watching (doing) media together and talking about what you experience.
- Use (mainstream) media in your teaching.
- Become a media producer & encourage students & people w/ whom you share faith to "make media."
- Make media the subject of evangelization, preaching, and catechesis.
- Become proactive advocate for media productions...
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Drupal: Restoring core comment title permalinks in a Zen Subtheme
I was scratching my head after trying to troubleshoot a template problem for a few hours today; I was building a Zen subtheme for a site that had, until now, been using Garland for it's styling. In this subtheme, I wanted to have comments display with a similar look to Garland, and I especially wanted automatic permalinks to comments, referenced by a comment number:
I looked through comment.tpl.php, and my template.php file, as well as zen's template.php file, but couldn't find anything related to the $id variable, which is used...
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Images not displaying in Drupal posts.
Hello,
I've been testing out Drupal, to see if I want to use it to rebuild an old Joomla site I maintain.
I've got CKEditor and CKFinder working for content editing and image uploads. They work great. When I am editing the post, the image appears, I can move it around, etc.
The problem comes in when I view or preview the post. Images do not appear. The IMG tage is absent in the HTML source that is displayed, for example, on the home page. Yet if I go back...
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