Building a Hieroglyph Parser – Intro
Somehow online Egyptology sites manage without hieroglyphs, or struggle to laboriously add them by hand. It is a labour too as most alternatives mean that each glyph has to be uploaded as a separate image and then laid out manually. Even then those who leave comments cannot add hieroglyphs and, in a Web 2.0 world, […] [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
WordPress and Footnotes
There’s a little known WordPress function which can strip the links out of content and move them to the bottom of an article as footnotes. Just what we need for the magazine! Footnotes [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
Create an RSS Shortcode
Although I had two small self-hosted WordPress blogs before Egyptological, it’s the first set of sites I have built properly. One thing I have learned is the power of shortcodes. I like the ability to embed functionality into pages rather than use widgets. One I created, and which is used extensively on the Portal is […] [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
Introducing Kate Phizackerley
If Kate had been an animal, she would have been born a cat – lovable, affectionate with flashing eyes and an independent streak. To find out more visit Kate’s personal portal or read her publication history. You can contact Kate via her contact form. [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
Will the WordPress plugins you add be supported?
One of the great pluses of WordPress is that there are so many plugins available to add those nifty extra bits of functionality which aren’t in the core but which make your site special – or just allow it to meet your minimum requirements. Most of those plugins are free which is another big plus […] [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
Adding Co-Authors
One of the requirements for a magazine displaying academic and near-academic papers is the ability to cope with co-authors. As standard, WordPress only supports a single author and that author has to be set up as a user. Now it’s possible to make then only a subscriber, but I still dislike the equivalence between author […] [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
Google XML Sitemaps PlugIn
The Google XML Sitemaps PlugIn was the first added to the site. It builds a site map in a form easily read by search engine spiders. Every site needs readers and that means at least some effort needs to go into improving the visibility of the site with search engines. The Google Sitemaps PlugIn does […] [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
Risk Assessment
As part of building our magazine we undertook a risk assessment to make help identify and address potential problems and issues. In this post, learn about the basics of risk assessment [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
Browser Compatibility – Pseudo Elements
(This is an article for HTML/CSS newcomers.) When building Egytpological we took the decision that: we wouldn’t support IE6, and would support IE7 and IE8 for functional essentials (while pushing the design further in better browsers) The attached table gives some clues as to why this is necessary. It shows browser compatibility for pseudo elements. […] [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant – Billy Joel
There is some great material on YouTube and I’m delighted they have come to an agreement with some major artists to feature their material. The trouble is, one is never sure which artists’ work has been approved and which haven’t so videos might disappear or embedding might be disabled. It’s a shame because it can […] [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley