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Most of your Manila sites have been used during workshops and now need to be cleaned out - review the practice stories and and relative path names to make sense for your own site. This step should be given consideration. No two stories/pictures/gems in your site can have the same name. (Well, actually a story and a gem could have the same name but you will get unpredictable results! How about you take my word for it and bypass this experience on your own?) Please take some time to scan the manual and then read the sections that catch your interest. Be sure to let me know when your site is ready for review and to "go public!" Actually, your site is live right now. And that is good and bad. Your site is available right now. To you, to students and to friends and family. It is live and there is no backup. I recommend typing long details in a word processor, spell check and then copy to a story (aka "back-up").


I'd like to share ideas on how some participants will be developing content in their Manila sites.

Jennifer Griffin, Art Department, maintains the existing art deparment web site. She will recreate the same pages as stories in the art deparment Manila site. Once the stories have been created (using two browser windows) she will copy text from the original site and paste into the story text box. If the results are not the best, Jennifer can copy to SimpleText on her Macintosh or to NotePad on a Windows computer to strip out any formatting. She will leave the photos on the wserver and use a small amount of HTML code in the Manila stories to display the photos there. If art department faculty want to have their own Manila sites, the Art Deparment stories will link to their sites.

http://www.scc.losrios.edu/~humarts/art/
http://web.scc.losrios.edu/art/

Synopsis: It is easy to recreate an existing site using copy and paste for text content. Images require more work, or can be added to the Manila site. When many images are planned for the site it would be best to use both the wserver (more file space and convenient to upload folders of documents or images) and Manila. Your visitor will not know the difference.
Mai-Gemu Johnson, MESA, has an existing site and will migrate the content over to Manila. Because Mai-Gemu is always looking to empowering MESA students with the newest technology, he will have student editors of this site as well. He will remain the Managing Editor and create stories but students will be Content Editors and update information for easy access by their peers.

http://web.scc.losrios.edu/mesa/
http://scc.losrios.edu/mesa/

Synopsis: One Manila site can have multiple editors, the "roles" define the Editor's Only links. A Managing Editor has full control over the site. A Content Editor can update stories.

See an examples of the site statistics Manila keeps automatically. For the most read messages, go to http://web.scc.losrios.edu/scoop/stats/mostReadMessages and for the hourly hits, go to http://web.scc.losrios.edu/scoop/stats/hourlyHits


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