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Reaser and Johnson are the second slide on the "front page." Check it out!
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Rick said
Jean is back with the Texans??Posted On: May 14th 2014, 7:27 PM #331396
No, not sure how they missed that
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Athletics still looks the same to me.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick @$$ and I'm out of bubble gum.
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The next content management system, OmniUpdate, was far superior to SCT and implemented in 2011. This did not necessarily change the site, which remained neither W3C nor ADA compliant as OmniUpdate was only used to update the rotten code generated by SCT. But, at least updates could actually be timely published. Some colleges/departments took advantage of actually being able to publish pages, and did indeed change their layout from the 2004 marketing-designed portrait layout. However, this caused the site to lose it uniformity once again.
This latest version, at least for the homepage, looks like a complete re-write, while still having some minor issues with W3C vallidation, looks like it is otherwise the first one in several years, since before Brogan implemented SCT, that is otherwise ADA compliant. The code is much more clean.
Since I first came across a problem over 10 years ago, I've been trying to get IRM and OIT to make a very simple fix. I've had several deans go to them with me for the same purpose when they became embarrassed by the problem. I gave up after several years, and the problem still exists. For example, go to Department of Music - Welcome and you are ok (though the page still has the portrait layout designed by marketing in 2004 and is 750 pixels wide). But then try Department of Music - Welcome (make any letter in "music" uppercase) and you receive a 404 missing page error message. Of course, that is offset by Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, which has its page at Welcome. Make any letter in "LLCL" lowercase (the exact opposite of music), and you receive the 404 error message. My personal favorite is for Womens Studies, which is only available at Welcome - mixed case. Change the case of any letter in "WomensStudies" and it bombs. So, yes, there is a mixture of all lowercase, mixed case, and all uppercase requirements. You have to know that the person at IRM, who did not follow convention and use all lower case, randomly decided to name the folders. They should be lower case, as should the filenames for the pages, and whatever the user types in as the address be converted to all lower case and then searched for, and the issue is resolved. The problem is that nobody at the university level, now OIT (as opposed to the college level), can be bothered to make a fix, and nobody at the college level has the necessary privileges to do so. It's a minor problem, but it is rather embarrassing when it rears its head.
As for what is in the content, and who has the capability to make changes to the content, that is another matter. It's gone from extremes of one person per college to virtually all faculty and staff. And, with so many now making changes, when the insert links, they assume that the link will work in all lower case, not knowing they have to look up folder names to be sure, and not having the rights to do that anyway. While the all lower case assumption works most of the time, about 1/3 of the time it will fail. Then, even when all lower case is used, if the person editng the page does type in "Music" rather than "music", the link should work. Regarless of the case in which the link is entered, it should work 100% of the time.
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Athletics or regular website?
Athletics still looks the same to me.
Posted On: May 15th 2014, 6:53 AM #331405
Hmmm, wonder which one was updated then?
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…Since I first came across a problem over 10 years ago, I've been trying to get IRM and OIT to make a very simple fix. I've had several deans go to them with me for the same purpose when they became embarrassed by the problem. I gave up after several years, and the problem still exists. For example, go to Department of Music - Welcome and you are ok (though the page still has the portrait layout designed by marketing in 2004 and is 750 pixels wide). But then try Department of Music - Welcome (make any letter in "music" uppercase) and you receive a 404 missing page error message. Of course, that is offset by Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, which has its page at Welcome. Make any letter in "LLCL" lowercase (the exact opposite of music), and you receive the 404 error message. My personal favorite is for Womens Studies, which is only available at Welcome - mixed case. Change the case of any letter in "WomensStudies" and it bombs. So, yes, there is a mixture of all lowercase, mixed case, and all uppercase requirements. You have to know that the person at IRM, who did not follow convention and use all lower case, randomly decided to name the folders.Posted On: May 15th 2014, 12:48 PM #331410
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