March 8 Meeting Notes

[MLuckman]

March 8 meeting

Updates on Progress

Emma

• Marking up words with connotation (possible checking with Ljiljana, do as much as possible w/o checking though).
• Idea of fixed epithets. Nouns and adjectives going together routinely esp as a memory advice for the folktaleteller.

Mitchell

• Reconcile schemas with @emmamamula - what words do we use for different concepts?
• Common inventory of elements

Daniel

• Standardized the CSS across the website
• Updated the photo.
• Reminder of server side includes.

Midterm Goals

Mitchell

• Finish the thematic markup
• Edit the css so that the menu is in a fixed position
• If we finish early then work on using xslt to make a reading view

Emma

• Finish the thematic markup
• @emmamamula will update the README.md so @ddaud02 can copy it into the website
• If we finish early then can work on using xslt to make a reading view.

Daniel

• Delete the stylesheet link on the third line of the source but keep the one on the sixth @ddaud02
• Check to see the css and the html to see which is different eg h1 vs h2 @ddaud02
• diff onefilename.css secondfilename.css tells the difference between the two files
• Make a server side include for the CSS
• Delete extraneous css files

In General

• Think about modes of access
• Are there graphical representations that we want? Think about the story we want to tell.

[ddaud02]

I'm trying to figure out how to proceed with "Server side include" format. It is a little confusing because the tutorial explained that I have to create a new HTML file with no XML declaration which I did. However, the format to describe the menu is completely different from the one I have on my other HTML files. Please see the first menu picture below to see what I mean. The second picture is how I wrote the code for the menu. The Third picture is what I have done so far to adapt OUR menu to the same format that appears in the tutorial.

[djbpitt]

@ddaud02 The included menu can use whatever combination of HTML and CSS you want to get the formatting and functionality you need. The example in the tutorial is very simple, while yours is much richer and more attractive. They are equally acceptable to SSI architecture—but since yours depends heavily on CSS, you will need to add the relevant CSS to the stylesheet that’s associated with your page. You don’t have to change your menu HTML into the HTML in the tutorial; your original HTML will be fine as is. You can then save the HTML that corresponds to your menu as a separate HTML file without an XML declaration and include it into your pages with an SSI.

Don’t forget that SSIs work only on the server, that is, when you are loading your pages from your site on Obdurodon. When you load the pages locally from your file system, the SSIs will not be processed.