Website Sustainability

Example of Alex's previous work Previous work The resource Your Degree in Computing: Making it Work provides materials that are designed to help computing students: Link work placement and academic study Be aware of skills gained through specific study activities, and how they are relevant elsewhere Improve planning, problem-solving and presentation skills Think actively about  personal and academic development, in relation to your future as a professional in computing Record concrete examples they can use in applications for jobs, placements or further study Gain experience in applying these skills in different situations, through paid or placement opportunities Broaden your career options by providing information, case studies, contacts and resources  The resources can be found at:  http://pdp.northampton.ac.uk/computing/index.htm l This work has been supported by funding from JISC. The site can be viewed at https://sites.google.com/s...

A Google Site has been started at  site  as in Figure 1. Figure 1 Starting Page One of the areas that has been focussed on setting up the services menu as can be seen  https://sites.google.com/site/emknorg/services  at the moment the image links to pages with their content missing. Figure 2 Starting page Problems found and addressed. Google Sites is restrictive on where certain features can be placed, such as the main image on this page. The image on this page had be handled a little differently as well.  It had to have it's own Google Gadget as an xml file and managed to recreate the colourful menu. It looks almost exactly the same as the original one. There was an initially a problem with the links but this  was fixed by adding  target="_parent"  to every link. An area that is being worked on curent is the interactive map shown in figure 1 at the moment only a portion is being used. This work has been supported by fu...

The currently free Dropbox   provides an alternative place to store a website. But only if we talking about static content (ie. content which is not changed dynamically by PHP, etc but is basically HTML). Dropbox provides a public folder which can be view by one with the appropriate link. First we need to copy the site, so we have local copy on our own machine. This can be done using the method as an example shown in  the earlier blog entry Caught it . Next, we need a Dropbox account. Go to www.dropbox.com and you should see the following: Click on the download button and follow the instructions. You will need an email address. We actually on need the Typical setting. This will add a piece of software to machine. With a little box icon at the bottom of your screen, if we click on this we see the files and folders in the dropbox, open the public folder, now.transfer files over to public folder Go to the dropbox website and log-in Then do Step 2...