Eleventh-hour HigherEd BlogCon submission
Mon 30 Jan 2006, 10:46 pm
OK, I squeaked my proposal for HigherEd BlogCon in at about the eleventh hour. I had a lousy week last week (though not as lousy as my son Luke, who had pneumonia (he’s fine)), so this got put way on the back burner.
If you care to see it, I ended up submitting it to the Web Sites and Web Development track, as my topic wasn’t very library-specific.
The working title is “Know Enough to be Dangerous: Tools for taking control of HTML and CSS.”. In short, the idea is a session on how to use tools like the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar and a little trial-and-error to take control of your blog. It will be aimed at those who are enthusiastic and tech-savvy enough to set up a blog (or similar site) but don’t have enough confidence in their HTML or CSS skills to mess with the code. This will teach you how to break your site real good! And put it back together again, of course.
This is all assuming they accept the proposal. If they don’t, I will simply cry silently, delete this post, and pretend it never happened.
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- File under: Blogs and blogging,Conferences,Web design
- Comments? 4
I’ll look forward to that one. I’m so old-school that I’ve never used the Firefox development plugins, though everyone I know who does web design RAVES about them.
Comment by Dorothea — January 31, 2006 @ 7:12 am
Thanks, Dorothea. I actually think that the developers plugin is old school: more like a Swiss Army Knife for web tinkering than a paint-by-numbers kit (to mix metaphors terribly). It seems to have a lot of traction with the “text editor and the sweat of my brow” crowd because it doesn’t impose a sketchy WYSIWYG interface, but instead provides a lot of information and control, including its own nifty “edit CSS” and “edit HTML” functions so you can make a change to the code and see it take effect immediately.
Comment by Steve Lawson — January 31, 2006 @ 10:22 am
Oh no! Don’t cry!!! I’m not in charge of the Web Development Track, but I would definitely include it if I was. It’s a terrific topic and one I look forward to hearing about since I’ve done almost nothing with my blog. I hope your little guy’s doing better. Everyone at my job’s been sick over the past few weeks, and I’m finally getting my turn. :(
Thanks again for your submission. You rock!
Comment by Meredith — January 31, 2006 @ 6:15 pm
Yes, yes–I too want to see this session go forward! (I don’t know that my opinion on the topic will have any sway with those who decide, but I figured I’d at least weigh in).
Comment by Laura — February 4, 2006 @ 10:49 am