Launched the website for the new Social Justice Studies website at http://web.uvic.ca/socialjustice
February 2, 2009
Used last year's program page as source for this year's, copied and pasted all the sessions in.
Adjusted the page http://web.uvic.ca/french/web_pages/grad_colloquium/index.php to make the entries for 2007, 2008 and 2009 consistent.
Noticed that the include files were not linking properly. Turned out that the variable ($level) was not registered with the session array, so I created a new variable $_SESSION['level'] in the URL above and in the files in the 2009 subfolder. Setting that var must happen after the include settings.php call for any page that is not in the root folder. The settings.php file sets the value of the variable to "", so files in the root folder need not address the variable. That variable is used in the files script_files/php/menu.php and script_files/php/settings.php to control how many directories to back up to get to the directory root.
All the pages on the site other than the grad colloquium tree are at the root level and thus don't use that session variable
With HC's departure as editor, I've amended the masthead to remove her and one editorial assistant, but put them on a secondary page which lists previous editorial staff.
January 30, 2009
Catching up on a bunch of administrative stuff at end of week.
ML reported that he was getting an SQL error message when he tried to search by treatment
Query failed: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that
corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near
'( t1.treatment_text LIKE '%cure%' OR t2.treatment_text LIKE '%cure%')
GROUP BY ' at line 1
I could not reproduce the behaviour, so asked him to confirm the problem and report on browser and OS, so I could try to reproduce it.
Got report back from central web development office on the western deans site implementation of the new Humanities templates. They wanted all the elements they had provided included (including some I'd removed such as background images and links that the target audience would have no use for).
I forgot to cc the Dean's office on these changes, but they noticed them anyway and wondered why some of the observed changes were being made - as they felt they weren't for the better.
Emailed the web dev office to get clarification on degree of judgment I have regarding presence and presentation of various elements in that template.
met with EGW and CP from library to review allocation of expenses on Colonial Despatches for reporting back to Ike Barber funding source. No big deal, just matter of confirming that amounts were in the right sub-accounts. Also talked about future possibilities for funds and nature and degree of HCMC involvement, based on parameters set by likely sources of future funds.
Fixed handful of xhtml bugs contained in code added by BC. (missing close tags and ill-formed values for attributes) As he will continue to make similar edits, sent notes on how to prevent similar problems in future to him.
Met for an hour with BI about his Siberian Expedition site. He's putting in for grant funding and was asking what the HCMC could do in support of the project. I told him we could work as consultants to help draw up technical specs, that we might be able to house a research assistant if our space allowed, that we might be able to provide some code snippets etc. to any developer he hired. He proposes to have an image database with search and query interface, and three narrative lines with hooks to the same collection of images (and possibly with queries to the db too). HCMC involvement is largely contingent on him getting grant funding to pay for contractors etc. to do the majority of the work. If grant money does not come through, we'd discuss what we could do - possibly a simple database and query/report interface.
at request of dept, took some doc files they provided and ported the content into a new html page I created on the Womens Studies site. Also modified the navigation (which fortunately is centralized in on file) to provide for access to the page.