Central Point School District 6
Technology Support Services
The single most important piece of advice I think I can share about publishing information on the web is to be considerate of your audience. As Carly Simon might say: This song ain’t about you. The fastest way to lose your readers’ interest is to post information on your website in a file format that requires the reader to actually download and open the file. This takes time and...
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We’ve recently set up a service where anyone with an @district6.org email address can sign up for a blog and have one automatically created. This is much easier than the previous setup where we needed to set blogs up one-by-one, which was very time consuming. To get started: Just go to http://www.district6.org/, go to the “For Staff” dropdown, and click “Blog...
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How the sites are put together and fit into the District 6 site How the calendar makes it to the front page, and how to add an appointment to another calendar in Zimbra The role of the front page Common things to have on each school site “About Us” pages Communication (Contact forms) The teachers page and what we can do to make it nicer. The ongoing role of TSS in site...
read moreQuestion: What's the most important thing here? Answer: Nothing. WordPress has very simple editing tools, and for the most part, this is a really good thing. Often, when a new WordPress users has something important to post on the web, they might ask where the button to change the text background color is, or how to make the font huge. Believe me: I realize it sometimes it seems like...
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Frustrated with WordPress’ built in table editor this afternoon, I went scanning the internet for a WordPress plugin to fix the problem. Finding nothing suitable, I went looking for some software that could be installed on windows machines at our schools to easily post content to our new WordPress school blogs directly from the desktop. I knew there was a program for the Mac called MarsEdit...
read moreWe’ve been fielding questions about WordPress all month. It’s encouraging to hear how much interest this project is getting. Recently, we received this question from Mack Lewis at CPE: “How does the RSS feed work? What’s its purpose?”, so this post is an attempt to answer that question for Mack and others. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication”...
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