A Cold Blog

This has been a slow Friday.  Mainly due to the faculty interviews we are perfoming.  I accomplised no web work today

Instead I setup some video conferening with the help of CTU and have begun editing yesterdays seminar for the website.

I will place a link here once I complete the edits.  It will be kinda boring unless you are into fish!  I plan to use the flash video player to encode and compress it.  I find it works pbetter ina SWF file.  Then again I am really new to playing with this vide stuff

FAA was wanting to have a e-newsletter.  Sounds simple.  Well it was a pain in the ass.  For one I was not goign to write a mass e-mail system from scratch.  And two, like always it was needed yesterday!

I opted to find a open source or even purchase a system.  I found a really nice Coldfusion system that suits all my needs.  From direct clicks, to allowing me to add custom fields as I see fit.  sounds perfect huh

Well our first letter went out and the linking to other sites did not work.  I spent at least 2 hours looking for the error cursing up a storm.  The problem was simple and my fault.  In the install I accidenlty left of a “\”.  Silly huh!

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Concept: This application will allow (hopefully) farmers, or the public, to submit their disease problems that they would like diagnosed through the web. This use to be done by hand and faxed in.  By having this form placed on the web it will not only allow for easier legiability for the technician, but will keep the information sotred in a database for future access.

Once the farmer hits “submit” a e-mail or some other way, is sent to the lab informing them of the submitted forms. ….. (more…)

Lead Design & programming: Troy Hahn
Design Concept & Testing: Dr. Len Lovshin & Troy Hahn
Content Providers: Dr. Rusty Wright, Dr. Len Lovshin, David Cline

This site was intended to provide information to the public on aquatic resources… A lot of work has been placed into this site at this point. We are using Contribute 3.11 to maintain content. This makes my life easier, as the programmer, and allows me to focus on development of the site and web applications that can help imrpove the user experience.

Mission Statement:

“Welcome to alearn.info. Our mission is to provide the people of Alabama with useful, timely, and interesting information about our state waters and the creatures that live in and on the water. This site provides support for ALabama Education in aquatic sciences, Aquaculture, Recreational fisheries and Natural resource conservation. ALEARN.info is a cooperative effort by the Auburn University Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquaculture, and the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. We hope that aquaculture producers , students, anglers, teachers and other citizen groups will find information here that will help them conserve, enjoy, and gain economic benefit from Alabama’s rich aquatic resources.”

Since I have begun working on the Fisheries & Allied Aquacultures website there have been at least 3 revisions.  This is a bit unusual, but mos t of the design was done by commmitee.

The summer of 2006 the office of communications and marketing released university standards.  This was a great deal of help and finally released me from design by commitee.  They allow us a good deal of flexability on the design side as long as we stay in guidelines.  Basically color, logos and that sort of ordeal.

I have made the site a bit unique by adding a flash rotating image system on the front page.  This will be updated monthly with new photos of faculty, staff, students and facilites.

A majority of the site is using the same format..

I am looking for a good clean way to display faculty information.  I will not have to worry about updates to much, since I will be distrubting Contribute 3.11 to  the faculty.

I am about to launch a new layout for the facilites section as well.

Completed the Ireland Center Page.  Several items could not be entered into it do to no information.  I have left that part up to the individual faculty who’s research resides there.  Once again, they can update text using C3, of course I will be available for assitance as needed.

Web Address: http://cf.acesag.auburn.edu/fisheries/feed-conference/

Requirements:

• Online Registration
• Abstract Submission
• Contact Information
• Image Gallery –> Will use the FAA Dept gallery
• Basic Conference Information
• Transportation / Directions

Thoughts:

I will use this project to begin learning Coldfusio
Make all forms in flash form options…

This project had a lot of time constraints due to other demands on my time. So I had to change a good bit of my original design in to a fast pace project. I used extremly BASIC coldfusion this time. Instead of using flash forms (due to learning time) I used Acrobat 8.0 and created the registration form with it.

Acrobat 8.0 was not a terrible choice since it sorta gives you a admin side. When the user submits the registration or abstract it e-mails it to the desired e-mail address. The recipient than imports it into the acrobat dataset. This allows for easy printing.

Once again not my number one choice to create the site like this, but had littel choice due to other complications and demands on my time.

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