Creating websites @ blogs.cofc.edu
Notes and Experiments on using blogs.cofc.edu for full-scale web sites
I have found that the WordPress software used for these blogs makes it far easier to create and maintain a somewhat professional-looking web-site than traditional free HTML editors, which is why this is now my main web site at the College. So I am collecting here a few notes on tools and tricks that I have found useful.
- The tools described so far are plug-ins to allow quick markup of content, including mathematical notation.
- The main trick so far is that one can move beyond the usual reverse chronological collection of a blog by using static pages and lists of links. So I plan to soon add notes on pages, sub-pages, and lists of links.
The first notes are/will be:
- Using the WordPress plug-in JetPack plugin to enable and use LaTeX-like markup of mathematical notation in these blogs.Warnings: level one headings cannot be used! Level two headings come out too small!! So start at level 3!!!
- Using the WordPress plug-in Markdown on Save to enable John Gruber’s Markdown notation for quick markup formatting of a page, without the verbosity of HTML markup. This page itself is created using Markdown: to see (roughly) what I typed in to create it, see the markdown source for this page
- More notes on markdown at Markdown: More Details with the raw source for that here.
References
- http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/: John Gruber’s Markdown markup language
- http://en.support.wordpress.com/latex/: using latex-style markup in these blogs
- http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jetpack/: the plug-in JetPack
- http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/markdown-on-save/: the plug-in Markdown on Save
- wordpress.org: our host (software)