It was the best of calendars – it was the worst of calendars. But – it is our calendar.
Unfortunately or fortunately, the helios calendar is popular. And sometimes – it doesn’t really play nice.
Today brought up an example – where when trying to bring up a category called “Career Related Events”, it failed.
As we have known for a while – helios lets all kinds of funky characters in, but when you go to push them out. Blaaaaaaaaaa. No good.
Here is a way to debug – use the RSS tool to see what bad character you have.
http://corridorcareers.com/wp-content/themes/corridorcareers/calendar/helios_calendar_widget.php?cat=65
If there are errors – it will give you clues to the problem. Then you can go to the back end and hunt for them.
http://calendar.gazlab.com/admin/
It’s not exact science – but it beats looking at a hundred or so events.
Firstly, become an administrator. Only an Admin can make another Admin, so ask Tom or Erin to make you one. And then sign in. (There should be a place to register and/or sign into the site.) At iowa bridal planner . com, it’s here:
If you are an Admin, then after you sign in the site will look very similar, but with two major changes – an “edit” tab will appear at the top of posts allowing you to change anything in that post. Like this:
And more options will appear in the navigation. Like this:
By clicking the “Administer” link here you can get access to lots of areas of the site that you can make changes to. This was quick and dirty, I know, but feel free to leave questions or comments.
This one page .pdf file has all sorts of handy references.
WordPress-Cheat-Sheet
We’ll all trying to cross train at Gazette Communications. WebDev is no exception. Our compadres in AppDev were looking to learn a bit more about WordPress – so we put together an informal training slide deck.
Let me know if you know of any other good examples.
One of our co-workers sent a question to us this morning about the “www” in front of a domain name. Here is the question:
Hi Tom, wanted to get your opinion on something… J
http://m.ourweb.com directs to the “Our Web” Mobile site
and
http://www.ourweb.com/mobile directs to the same “Our Web” Mobile site
but
http://www.m.ourweb.com does not
Do you think it’s critical to address that referral?
This is a great question. Here is my reply:
I would not say it is critical. People who are trying to get to the mobile site are, by the nature of the site, on a mobile phone. So they will more than likely just simply type in “m.”.
The “www” in front of every site name is kind of a throwback to the origins of the web. So, with no offense intended, the only people who tend to get hung up on it are “older” people who just associate the “www” with the web and having to have it.
That all being said – the process of adding the extra DNS record takes less time than it did for me to write this email and you to read it. So, I will drop a quick note to the network guy – he can add it and we’ll have it, just in case.
If you are interested in more information on how domain names work – check out this link. It does a nice job of explaining them in greater detail.
http://www.recommendedwebtools.com/index.php/563/what-are-domain-names-and-how-they-work/
Have a great day,
tom
I hope this answer works for you too – DNS and sub domains are confusing, but a very integral part of how the web works.
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