Re: [school-discuss] SchoolForge site is up with new features!

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Subject: Re: [school-discuss] SchoolForge site is up with new features!

From: "Tyson Gray" <tysongray@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:23:08 -0500

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Awesome job!!!

The layout alterations to the header and menu are fantastic! To me, the SchoolForge logo is the first spot my eyes go. The organization of the menu categories make it feel as though everything is at my fingertips! I think the arrangement of the SchoolForge logo and menu have improved to justify this.

I think having the News section as the front page is a good idea. What about the ability to search within them? Are there any plans to have categories for news articles, for example maybe a little box on the front page? The Case Study System looks great and Advanced Sorting covers a lot of bases.

Again, good work on the site Justin!

Tyson

On 3/14/07, Justin <jriddiough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The new website is now online, with discussion forums and a place to
post and comment on news articles.  The fun part now will be finding
ways to bring activity and users to visit the site.  I'll be dedicating
a lot of time this upcoming weekend to cleaning up any loose ends, so if
you have an opportunity to take a look around the site - let us know
what you think.  I'm very happy to see it get to this point, it's taken
awhile to get here but all the time spent with Drupal is really starting
to pay off - feel like I'm finally getting started :)

Some of the things I've been reading up on lately, and that will play a
part in the future of SchoolForge would be: RDF, Learning Patterns, and
LOM-Metadata.  I'm going to start learning about RDF through working
with the freshmeat feeds, which I think will give a good place to start
looking at possibilities with LOM.  It all seems like it's going to come
together very interestingly, even if I'm not sure exactly how yet :)
Just sort of the general direction.

I'm also going to probably have to jump in and start learning/using
subversion to work with the code.  I haven't used versioning systems
before, so if anyone has any thoughts beyond what I'd likely find
through a google search - I'd be happy to hear :)

Justin