Archive for the 'newdtlt' Category

Hacking a Basic Newsletter for WP

Last semester, when we launched our new DTLT Web site, I was hoping to really use it as a tool for getting the word out to our faculty about news, upcoming events, professional dev. opportunities, and showcase projects. Ideally, I wanted to use it as a hub from which all of this information could be [...]

What Lies Within: Of Calendars, Hidden Data, and Hacked Templates

I’ve blogged in the past about my endless DTLT Web Site Redesign project. And I’ve committed myself to regularly blogging about what I’m doing as part of that project. And then, of course, I’ve promptly broken that commitment. Oops. I guess it’s time for an update, and, to start, I want to describe how I’m [...]

DTLT Revamp: Custom Fields Are Your Friends

This post is the second in a series that I’m writing about my experiments with redesigning the DTLT Web site. You can read the introduction here. You can see all of the posts in this series here.  There are a lot of places I could start my next post about the DTLT site, but given [...]

Revamp

One of my goals in my new role is to blog more regularly about the projects I’ll be working on. To that end, I’m going to use this post to kick off what will (hopefully) become a series about a project to revamp the DTLT Web site. I’ve wanted to tackle this initiative for several [...]