Paul Chenoweth.
Pulling over HTML sites - an update
As I mentioned earlier, there are a mixture of file types on our current www.belmont.edu web site that have to make their way over into the new, Hannon Hill, content management system.
Byron has made considerable progress on the conversion script for CONNIE sites and has been adding features, tweaking the code, and adjusting styles so that editors will find life easier when it comes time for training and editing. I have been concentrating on the list of HTML and hybrid sites that are out there to get them pulled over into the system...it has been quite a ride, but progress has been made. Adrian and Morton are working on images and graphics and exploring ways to organize those lfiles for end users...a daunting task, considering that there are already several hundred files moved over to Hannon Hill that haven't been reviewed and categorized.
Nearly every page of every directory on our server will be touched a couple of times in the conversion process. The first pass on all of our HTML sites has been to strip out the current hard coded source information that delivers the site-wide navigation, and, to clean-up any errors in the existing code so that the HTML is more W3C compliant. The next pass pulls whatever is left over into Hannon Hill as individual data files. As a part of that second pass, individual sites are designated a basic template, a navigation configuration, a standard footer, a graphic header/name, and a navigation header name. The third pass is the integration of those files...a process that takes the original file data and merges that data with the configuration/template information to form pages. Upon completion of that third pass, the site is ready for editing within Hannon Hil's system.
We have been using the LockeSmith Institute site as our HTML conversion laboratory. What you see now on the staging server is the curent site: www.belmont.edu/lockesmith converted to the new look and naviigation on stage.belmont.edu/lockesmith . This is your basic, stripped down verion of the old web site...no images, very little text formatting, with new sub-page navigation. There is still some technical work to be done with breadcrumbs, formating te subpage menus, and adding the Question Block to the configuration...but we are getting closer each day on those items. From this point forward, the end user and his/her workflow group will determine what gets added and edited before replacing the existing site on the www.belmont.edu server.