HCMC Blogs

I've now finished building out the site structure, and I'm now creating buttons for the external links; made one for Facebook, and I'm working on one for security.

Added a new user to the Victorian Poetry Network database access list. Currently waiting to hear if any old users should be removed.

Checked through my SSHRC CV (still OK) and updated the 4-page attachment, adding this year's presentations and software output. Ready to go for the Moses application now.

Working on text for inclusion in grant proposal. Forwarded to ECH.

Lots of urgent incoming...

Added and linked a new page with info for native speakers, on instructions from DR.

History and French came already provisioned with the department name in the banner, but WS didn't. DW showed me how to do it:

• Edit assets/blocks/layout/banner-block.
• Wherever necessary, set "Department" to "Humanities", and "Unit" to "Women's Studies".
• Set the equivalent urls to /humanities and /humanities/women.

That makes the grey department bar show up on the banner.

I'm about half way through, after some tweaking about with the news stuff (which will have to be ported over to French and History when it's working properly).

There have been various incarnations of the "news" setup over the last few months, and some sites have different implementations (or none at all). This is how it's supposed to work, as far as I can tell after some help from DW:

• home/news should contain current and archive folders.
• To create a new news item, click on current, and then choose New / UVic Pages / News item.
• To archive an old news item, move it to the archive folder.
• The index page in current contains this in its Main Content: Page Block Content [humanities/women/assets/blocks/content/current-news-body].
• That block has some settings for the number of items to show, etc., and also contains this block: humanities/women/assets/blocks/layout/current-news-index. This block parses the current folder for all news item pages.
• A similar system should be workable using an index page inside the archive folder, which should use the corresponding archive blocks, but it doesn't seem to function. I've edited the archive blocks to make them as similar as possible to the current blocks (they had some settings slightly different), but nothing seems to work, so I'll talk to DW about it.

A basic reno plan was worked out, and the only outstanding item from our point of view is the cost of adding 4TB of storage to the TAPoR storage area; GN is checking with KL about how much that would be, and we need to pass on the info to LG when we have it.