What’s a blog? Do you blog? What would you write there? Why would you use one for class? Why do you like having a blog?
Here are the answers by 2nd and 3rd grade students who blog and here is the site where they blog.
They will be college freshman in about 12 years.
You’ve reached the proverbial entrance to geek nirvana - Adam’s site development page.
This site is built on the open-source WordPress platform, commonly used for blogging. However, eight months of building, rebuilding, testing, coding, and headbanging don’t all go to naught. We used as a base the Freshy theme set, and then built and modified on it extensively. The original theme was built by Julien De Luca and his site can be found here. (Careful - it’s in French. Also, Jide, if you ever read this, our many thanks! Merci!)
Our server is running on Linux, with Apache.
In addition to the theme files, I’ve made use of an extensive set of PHP plugins. Here’s a selected list, and what they do.
For developers looking to know even more, leave us a comment.
The other thing that was a problem or I thought was a limitation of the department, and it’s true I think across all departments, is just a really inconsistent and fragmentary relationship with our alums. How do you reach all those people? I thought, just try with a blog…
You can use one of these links to download or view other formats:
Patrick O’Neil is the Chair of the UPS Politics and Government Department.
The Politics and Government Blog is a place for social networking that allows students, faculty, and alums to share news and resources with each other. The Blog is the center of this but connects to other technologies, some listed below.