About This Site

In the Beginning...

This site was designed by Joe Kington, shortly after he graduated in the summer of 2005. (I'm the really fuzzy big guy in a lot of the photos) It was mainly hand-coded inside of dreamweaver. (I like highlighting, and dreamweaver is really nice for some things) Graphics were generated using Adobe Photoshop 7.0.

To Whomever Updates this site...

The site is mostly in html rather than xhtml. I had intended to convert it over later, but I ran into some bugs, and ran out of time. (It mostly uses xhtml style tags, anyway) The layout is css, and there is an alternate stylesheet that used to work before I changed some things. It no longer works correctly, but I don't have the time to change it or remove it. I'm assuming most people wouldn't ever realize it was there or know how to switch to it anyway... If you're looking for the photoshop files used to create the graphics look on gislab07 (assuming they haven't deleted it!) under C:\EASCWebpage\final_index.psd and C:\EASCWebpage\joe's webpage\css version\background4.psd The acutal site is under final_version. (there's a lot of junk under the EASCWebpage folder) Most likely, no one will update the site after today, but I'm being optimistic and typing this up anyway. There is a photoshop template to create the photo galleries. I've uploaded it here. You'll need to unzip it into C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop 7.0\Presets\WebContactSheet\ (or something along those lines). To create a photo gallery, enter the title and caption for each photo under file/file info and then go to file/automate/create web photo gallery (or something like that). Select TTU EASC as the template you want to use and go through the options (150px thumbnails and 500px large images is what I used for the ones on here now). Select title and caption as the labels on the large images and no labels on the thumbnails (or whatever you'd like). There's a bit more, but I'll let you figure it out from there. You have to upload the folder photoshop creates under the photos folder on the site (or your local copy)for it to look even remotely like its supposed to. There are some relatively minor bugs if you dont' go through and set the image height and width for each image (Photoshop doesn't do it, you can download an extension for dreamweaver that will do it em masse). The bugs will go away when you hit refresh, it has to to with browsers having the background images chached, but not the images on the page. If it doesn't know what size to make the images, it tends to put the footer bar too far up the page. Anyway, enough of that, it sounds more complex than it is.

To anyone else reading this...

Sorry for all the randomness!! I'm almost finished moving out of my office! Yay!

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