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Launch of the new UT Dallas Debate website in WordPress

By Dennis Guten on March 13, 2011 No Comments

Where I work, at The University of Texas at Dallas, the Debate program is an important part of the university’s identity, likewise with the Chess program.

In fall of 2010 I launched the redesign or the Chess website in one of our new templates, which we call Venus. It was coded using Adobe Dreamweaver templates.

Since then, we have started rolling our some new sites using the WordPress MU platform, which is the multi-user version of WordPress.

The UT Dallas Debate website is the first site I have redesigned using WordPress and it just launched this past week. It also uses the Venus template, which first had to be imported into WordPress. It was the first Venus site our team in University Web Services had done so there was a big learning curve getting the template into WordPress in the first place.

It’s not totally like creating a WordPress template from scratch, which I have not attempted, because you are not using any widgets like most templates would use.

It was essentially chopping our already coded template up into the various php files that make up the pieces of a template. It was complicated by the fact that our Dreamweaver templates share CSS and other code from a templates directory on our server and that had to be preserved in case there are changes to the template down the road which will change all sites using Venus.

I think the site worked out pretty well and you cannot tell that the Chess site is static HTML and the Debate site is WordPress.

Has anyone else tried to do this with their different sites and what was your experience?

Categories : UT Dallas, Web Design, WordPress
Tags : Debate, UT Dallas, WordPress

Blogging from Adobe Contribute?

By Dennis Guten on April 22, 2010 No Comments

This is essentially a test to see how well the blogging feature works from within Adobe Contribute (I’m on CS3).

I created the connection, which worked well enough. It was a very quick set-up process to connect to the blog (as long as you have four pieces of information handy:

  • The blog URL (pretty easy one)
  • The user name for the WordPress admin
  • The WordPress admin password
  • The access point address, which in my case was simply the blog URL, plus /xmlrpc.php

I’m doing this so I can research this function for my work at UT Dallas to see if the feature is one we might want to use in other departments.

Categories : Software, UT Dallas, WordPress
Tags : Adobe Contribute, Software, UT Dallas, WordPress

More UT Dallas Construction – iPhone App

By Dennis Guten on February 25, 2009 No Comments

Since my last UT Dallas update the construction here on campus has been increasing at a fever pace (is that even correct grammar?).

The construction on the UTD campus makes it a bit of a challenge getting around campus some days, but ya gotta hope we will end up with a much better campus when it is all done.

The job is going really well. I love working in this university setting and am being challenged every day with new stuff to learn and get involved in.

The other thing I am really loving is my iPhone. The always connected aspect is very cool. I am writing this post from the UTD Student Union building in one of my 2 favorite chairs right from the iPhone.

I also purchased an app called “FTP on the Go” ($9.99 in the Apple App Store) that allows me to log on to my other ( non- WordPress) sites, look at all the files, download and edit a file and upload the edited file. That’s huge to be able to do that from my phone! At least it’s huge to a web designer.

UTD – Where I work.

[Posted with iBlogger by iPhone]

Categories : iPhone, Software, UT Dallas, Web Design
Tags : iPhone, UT Dallas
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