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Website: 2009

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Our 2009 Website

Westside Boiler Invasion was proud of their new website for 2009. We started from scratch that year, redesigning the entire site and adding more links and information. Our goal was to include as many people as we could in the website process. For more information, continue reading this page.


Webmasters

Students:

  • Hiroshi - leader of website team, main student editor
  • Ashley - content editing
  • Jonathan - backend management, content editing
  • David - backend management,content editing

Mentors:

  • Mike - assistant webmaster
  • Jason - webmaster

How this Website Works:

  • Written in PHP and HTML
  • Nearly all content stored in MySQL
  • Designed in CSS (font, color, etc.)
  • Administrator features make it quick and east to modify content without touching PHP code.

The Theme

The theme of the site is diamond plating. The rugged look brings the webpage back to the shop and into the action.

The Menu

Menus are generated automatically by PHP script from an XML file using an XSL transformation. This is an example of how menuitems are defined:

<menuitem type="submenu" page="multimedia" text="Multimedia" url="multimedia" >
    <menuitem type="link" page="photos" text="Photos" url="photos" />
    <menuitem type="link" page="videos" text="Videos" url="videos" />
</menuitem> 

 

Searching

Searching is done by navigating through the sitemap which can be found at the bottom of each page.

Goals of 2009 Website:

  • Migrate content from old site to new one
  • Organize content into logical manner (including creating an easily accessable sitemap)
  • Provide simple interface for students in the future to edit content easily (content management system hidden from non-administrators, resembles Microsoft 2003 data entry)

Recommended Software:

If you are looking for software to develop your website, we have some suggestions.  We cannot promise you will instantaneously have a perfect website, it will take work and time. The following programs are what our website team has used over the past year:
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver-Rich and simple to use editor for XHTML, PHP, CSS, and much more.
  • Adobe Photoshop-The classic image editor. Depending on how good you are at it, you can create anything from simple images to artistic masterpieces.
  • Notepad++-A simple text editor that makes code such as CSS, HTML, and PHP easy to read with color.
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