Adding Content to the Rich Text Fields for Directory Data, Submit News, Etc.

Why not to use Word

Using any word-processor with our webpage editor is not a good thing to do.
Microsoft Word is not a standard, everyone should not use it and our editor should not be expected to cope with what it produces. A Word document cannot be pasted into any other proprietary word-processor and look just the same – our editor is no different.

Here is why any word-processor – including Open Office – should not be used.

This text was written in Open Office then copied and pasted into our editor. Right now it looks okay.

 

 

If you click the HTML tab though you will see what the real code looks like:

That is what just 2 short lines produced. If you have written a long entry then it becomes a mess of tags – and if just one tag does not get closed properly – your page looks bad. It’s a LOT of tags there and you would need to dig through each one to find the unclosed tag.

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This is almost identical text written directly into our editor. It looks similar.

 

 

Clicking the HTML tab shows only a few tags:

 

Because there are less tags it is easier to see if one has gone wrong.

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We recommend that you:

• write directly to our editor
• use either a plain text editor then post to our editor and format the text
• use a desktop client

Just don’t use Word – or expect to see and have to fix mistakes.

New Publication Categories For Generic Content

Some faculty members have requested that a general category be available for publications in the faculty/staff directory. This has been added to reduce editing time and eliminate the requirement to categorize every publication.

The new category is called “Relevant Publications and Presentations“, and when used can store publications of any type.

Edit your directory listing here: http://www.tech.purdue.edu/Faculty_Staff/

Making Directory Updates

The new directory is now available for all of the departments to access on their specific site.

 

Each faculty and staff member is responsible for the accuracy of their own content. To update the content the user will go to: https://www.tech.purdue.edu/faculty_staff/ and use their career account username and password to enter the site. We cannot give access to proxy account access at this time. coming summer 2008

 

This is being done for three reasons:

1. Faculty & staff now have the rights to modify their own content.

2. TCN is phasing out support for the www2 server which houses all of the old faculty/staff data.

3. This will greatly reduce the workload of the department content editors.