Mark Horner » webdesign http://www.markhorner.net A blog about mixing technology, education, openness, and experience in South Africa. Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:46:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= OpenPress Info Site http://www.markhorner.net/2010/06/08/openpress-info-site/ http://www.markhorner.net/2010/06/08/openpress-info-site/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:28:40 +0000 Mark http://www.markhorner.net/?p=553
We're back in the groove with OpenPress right now, working on the information website and printing some sample books. Read about the site and aggregation process in this post.]]>

I’m really happy to report that we’re moving on OpenPress again. The design competition for the information site was held on 99designs recently and we’ve selected the winner.

The info website design will be based on this entry from the competition:

The site design.

The site will be available in the next week or two. For those of you who aren’t sure what the site is all about you can run through this slide show (best in full screen mode so you can read the speech bubbles):

OpenPress Explanation Cartoon

View more presentations from Mark Horner.
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First part of the site upgrade finished, the FHSST site now uses Drupal 6. ]]>

I have finally upgraded the FHSST website to Drupal 6.15. This took me a lot longer than expected because the year got off to a completely rampant start and “spare” time just didn’t exist. I also had fallen very far behind on Drupal upgrades so I had to start with an upgrade to Drupal 5.

Now we can revisit the new functionality I mentioned in a previous blog. The idea was to make it much easier for people to submit errata and manage the corrections, submit contributions and capture testimonials. This will require significant theme changes which is why the site is currently using the default Drupal theme.

I’ve learnt not to even attempt to suggest deadlines for the new functionality to be rolled out and the new theme designed and implemented but it’ll be there as soon as I can get it up. The functionality was being looked into by Telementa and I hope to resurrect that as it seemed like the functionality would be quite quick and simple for them to implement. The bottleneck was myself upgrading the site to Drupal 6.

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We have got the look of the front-page tied down.]]>

The development of the FullMarks open assessment bank is well underway. We’re on track for a launch early next year. Without a beta version of the site up it is hard to show you the progress at this time but we’re about 20 man-days away from the website being ready to show you.

We have got the look of the front-page tied down though and here is a screenshot of what www.fullmarks.org.za will look like early in 2010:


fullmarks

Once the site is up we’ll be organising some content uploading sprints to make sure we get the breadth of subjects covered as quickly as possible.

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