Alex Chapin

We’re starting to add links to Google Maps which will show the walking directions to a given building.  See: http://pages.charlotte.edu/labs/specifications/building/burson/

In an earlier post, we described a need to replace the generic labels for categories and tags with the custom category and tag base names used on this site, see: References to Categories and Tags. Crystal Barton has created a Translucence child theme that fixes this problem by getting the custom category and tag base names programmatically. … Read more

We changed what information is shown when viewing a list of labs.  Specifically, we limited the display to the Lab location, its specifications and software.  This allows users to quickly see: which labs have Windows 7 what software is installed in Mac Labs which labs have JAWS This new compact view doesn’t let you see … Read more

We have updated the OAT site so that it now includes pages with contact information for all OAT staff, included associated staff.  See: http://pages.charlotte.edu/oat/team http://pages.charlotte.edu/oat/associated-staff Next step is to update those lab manager links on this site that did NOT have page on our main OAT site.

This site uses categories to organize info about labs by building, department and OS.  Tags are used to indicate the software available in a given lab.  We were able to update the permalink structure to reflect this usage of categories and tags by creating custom category and tag base names.  However we have not figured … Read more

I made some changes to the syntax for permalinks (see: Dashboard > Settings > Permalinks).  In particular, I changed: “categories” to “specifications” “tags” to “software” /blog/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ to /location/details/%postname%/ NOTE: I have updated the Settings > Privacy to not allow Google to index this site until we’ve decided on the best link syntax

I just created a custom menu in the top navigation and added a link to the Google Project Doc as well as a link to the “Updates” category where we can keep notes on our progress and invite others to comment.

Here’s the site where we can publish lab information.  For more info on this project, see: Project: CLAS Pages Labs Site