BEHIND
THE SCENES
SECTIONS
OUR SCHEDULE
TO DO LIST
- Define HTML title for each page. We haven't worried about it up to
this point because all that shows is the title of the intial frame page,
but since the site map we've added shows all page titles, we need to define
them. It's probably a good idea to do it anyways since we may not always
have frames.
- Modify all virtual #include tags (Header.html primarily) to reflect
the new web address (DDOR for Generic)
- Parse tutorial pages and add them to SourceSafe
- Fill out "what we've learned section" for currently undiscussed
topics
- agree to ABEL coding standards and reformat all examples to such
- re-edit existing content
- create a feedback form; using "mailto:" does not encourage
students to send feedback since most have not specified their broswer mail
preferences (they use Pine).
- create sequential templates for ABEL and Verilog
- Start working on explanations of all the various types of Synario errors
(consistancy check, ABEL check syntax, simulator error log)
- Source Safe's "Verify Hyperlinks" feature is not working
on most computers due to problems with the registry (PML11 and PML12 are
set up correctly; see them for details of such); this needs to be corrected
so we can make use of the feature
- We still don't have setting UNIX file permissions streamlined
yet; the problem lies in that we're ftping files, which resets file permissions
and does not allow use of umask. There is a solution: after completing
a work session, a user could use UNIX's "find" function to recurse
our directory structure and execute a shell script on each file. The script
should (1) take ownership of any file that is not owned by the person invoking
a "cp file copy" and "mv -f copy file" and (2) chmod
0775 the file. This is going to require some research into writing shell
scripts
IDEAS TO THINK ABOUT FOR FUTURE CHANGES TO SITE:
CONTENT OR WEB ASPECTS
- DORIAN'S HOME PAGE:
Dorian has a couple of interesting things like a C feedback form (so people
can send feedack in netscape even if they haven't set their netscape preferences).
He also has something that lets people add links to his site; this really
makes his site interactive; perhaps we could have a page where students
post things they want to see covered on the site. There are some other
cool miscellaneous things worth checking out too.
- Find a better way of managing URL changes. We either need a way to
not have to hardcode our URL into links and #includes or we need a small
program that supports easy search and replace accross multiple files.
LINKS TO STUFF YOU WANT THE REST OF THE GROUP
TO SEE