Aron is correct.
My department paid $1000.00 to someone outside the department to completely
redesign our web page. So now, I have to figure out how to use it and
modify it for our pages. (See, it's 16 pages that were made so I could get
an idea of what it's supposed to look like, but I'm supposed to substitute
our pages for the mock-up.) Any more money to get to actually teach me
about it, is I guess supposed to come from thin air. I've been trying to
get CDOP to pay for some XML classes at UC Extension, but they are really
slow with the application process and/or the classes keep on getting
cancelled.
>At 10:57 -0800 2003-10-29, Eric Fong wrote:
>>Currently, it has been ordered that we use XML to design a completely new
>>look, which I don't know anything about. (This directive came from above,
>>without any consultation with me. So I'm trying to figure out how to use it.)
>
> For anyone who faces a situation similar to Eric's -- where conversion
> of a website to XML might be mandated -- you might suggest to your
> supervisor/manager or other initiator that you might begin by creating
> all of your new documents in XHTML 1.0, the "next generation" of
> HTML. You can also optionally convert some or all of your existing
> documents from HTML to XHTML, as well.
>
>Aron Roberts
>Workstation Software Support Group
>
>P.S. Eric's situation may be a bit more complicated than I've described
>above: from my reading of a late August posting he sent to this list, it's
>possible he may have been given a set of XML pages prepared by someone
>else and directed to 'make a website out of these ...' Ouch! :-)
This is exactly what happened. So now, I am reading a "Sam's Teach
Yourself XML in 24 hours" book to figure out what XML is and how to use
it. This is how I taught myself HTML too. :)
eric
Eric Fong
Computer Resource Specialist
Department of Ethnic Studies
506 Barrows Hall #2570
U.C. Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2570
510.642.6555
510.642.6456 - Fax
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