hpr1538 :: Overhauling the School of Music website

I discuss how I overhauled an outdated website for my employer.

Hosted by Jon Kulp on Wednesday, 2014-06-25 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: CSS, html, scripting, accessibility. Comments: 3.
The show is available on the Internet Archive at: https://archive.org/details/hpr1538

Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format. Play now:

Duration: 00:29:00

Part of the series: general.

I discuss the process of overhauling a badly out-of-date website to make it conform to accessibility standards and give it a responsive design. I also discuss how I came up with my own content management system by Bash scripting.

Links

School of Music website: https://music.louisiana.edu/
TinyPNG, Web-based tool for optimizing PNG images: https://tinypng.com/
Google developer tool for testing page speed: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
WebAIM, Web accessibility testing tool: https://wave.webaim.org/
HTML compressor: https://code.google.com/p/htmlcompressor/
Font-Awesome Icons: https://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/

Show Transcript

Automatically generated using whisper

whisper --model tiny --language en hpr1538.wav

You can save these subtitle files to the same location as the HPR Episode, and they will automatically show in players like mpv, vlc. Some players allow you to specify the subtitle file location.

<< First, < Previous, Next >, Latest >>

Comments

Subscribe to the comments RSS feed.

Comment #1 posted on 2014-06-27 01:13:47 by pokey

Good show. Thank you.

I don't have any websites, but I thoroughly enjoyed listening to you reason out your problem, your solution and the method you used to get there. I really like listening to your episodes. Thanks.

Comment #2 posted on 2014-06-28 16:38:41 by Dave Morriss

Wayback machine

Hi Jon,

Very impressive show. You said you wished you had a before and after for your site.

I looked on the Wayback Machine and there are old versions of the School of Music's site going back in time, though whether they are what you are looking for I don't know.

Have a look at https://web.archive.org/web/20130128225830/https://music.louisiana.edu/ for example.

Dave

Comment #3 posted on 2014-07-07 10:52:51 by Jon Kulp

Thanks Dave!

Wow Dave, thanks for the tip. Wayback indeed had the previous version of our site. Kinda scary. I just want it to go away haha!

Leave Comment

Note to Verbose Commenters
If you can't fit everything you want to say in the comment below then you really should record a response show instead.

Note to Spammers
All comments are moderated. All links are checked by humans. We strip out all html. Feel free to record a show about yourself, or your industry, or any other topic we may find interesting. We also check shows for spam :).

Your Name/Handle:
Title:
Comment:
Anti Spam Question:	What does the letter P in HPR stand for?
Are you a spammer?	Yes No
Who is the host of this show?
What does HPR mean to you?

Hacker Public Radio

Your ideas, projects, opinions - podcasted.

New episodes every weekday Monday through Friday.
This page was generated by The HPR Robot at Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:02:09 +0000