I’ve been learning a lot about Webrecorder and specifically Browsertrix Crawler recently as part of a Web Archiving script that I am working on. The goal is to have a tool you could run on Reclaim Cloud (or your local computer using Docker) that you simply give a URL, and it would make a web archive file using Browsertrix Crawler, and a flattened HTML copy of the site using HTTrack....
Blogging this before I forget it! I needed to add a warning to a form in Gravity Forms in case someone started filling out a form but forgot to click the submit button before closing the page. I’ve seen plenty of pages do this before, and figured there might be away to easily do something like this in Gravity Forms. There isn’t a built-in feature in Gravity Forms for this, but it turns out that using jQuery you can easily check if someone has clicked on any of the form inputs, and if they try to close the page throw up a warning....
On February 9th1 we had our second Community Chat at Reclaim Hosting, this one called State of Reclaim! It was a breakdown of what each group at Reclaim has been busy with, as well as what they are looking ahead towards. We also had Tim talk about early work on the Domains API. Here’s the recording: Also, here are some of the links for follow up that were mentioned in that recording:...
Yesterday, Reclaim Hosting had its first “Community Chat” and I got to host it. The chat was focused around a site template I put together that is intended to help Domains admins showcase the work students, staff, and faculty are doing on their campus. The idea of making tools to build community around domains is not new at all, but I was hoping to make something that schools that were new to DoOO could get started with and would be simple and flexible enough to grow with their needs over time....
I’ve been messing around with Pinboard lately for social bookmarking and I’ve been really impressed with its archiving features and all the excellent iOS clients for it. I’ve also messed around with getting my bookmarks showing up on my domain! I’ve had some people ask exactly how I’ve integrated Pinboard with this site, so here’s what I’ve done. The finished product. At pinboard.in/resources you can find the Linkroll and Tag cloud widget, under Javascript Widgets....
This semester I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to teach a tutorial class with 10 honors students on Digital Citizenship. Here is my course site: digciz.jadin.me The course is best described as a small sampling of a few digital citizenship topics and a project where students design and build a website on Knight Domains for their own personal use. We meet once a week for 5 weeks, then we have a mid-semester check-in, then a end of semester website showcase!...
I’m really proud of the work our Tech Bar students have been doing promoting their next event on campus called “Claim Your Own Slice of the Web.” Yes, the pun is intended. They’ve been working hard promoting the event on our website, social media, and in person by camping outside the cafe and talking to their peers! They’ve also made a ton of really cool promotional materials: They’ve also been promoting the event via Instagram:...
crossposted to snc.digpins.org Typically when we talk about digital identity we focus on our digital footprint or what we leave behind on the web. Lately, I have been thinking about how what I consume on the web affects me, or how my “online” self affects my “offline” self. I have always enjoyed reading news articles and blog posts on the internet. I’ve made a habit of frequently reading blogs and news sites on various topics that interest me (mostly tech, education and music) since high school....
This post is cross-listed from blog.knight.domains UPDATE We are no longer going to be holding this event on a regular basis. Instead I recommend you stop by Tech Bar to scratch your diy-website-building itch! We have a budding Domain of One’s Own project at St. Norbert College, and it has been exciting to see our pilot groups and Tech Bar students jump head-first into building their own slices of the web and taking control of their digital identities!...
This is a post I put together to show the ITS Tech Bar Students I work with how to quickly put a static page up on their domain. I am assuming almost no prior knowledge of HTML, CSS, or cPanel. When we are finished you will have a page that looks like this: demo.jadin.me Creating index.html First, we will make an index.html file. The quickest way to do this for now will be to use cPanel’s File Manager tool....