Re: Transitioning websites to XML (was Re: staffing for websites)

It's how I taught myself HTML as well, about what 6-7 years ago?
Learn HTML in 2 weeks book and that's exactly what I did. It was a
terrific guide, but with editors no longer needed though it's nice to
know about the "source".......

dd

At 9:25 AM -0800 10/31/03, Eric Fong wrote:
>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
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>Department of Ethnic Studies
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