Welcome and Call to Blog
Category: Uncategorized| August 12th, 2007Welcome to the Falcon Forum, Mr. Beattie’s first venture into the world of the bloggers. While I enjoy a good discussion, making the time to actually compose is something that many of us find difficult to do these days. I was astounded to discover how many people are involved in hosting blogs, even in just the Word Press environs. I also got lost for hours in the many themes that developers, some good and some bad, have made available to use with your blog. Many are as easy as uploading all of the files into the proper folder and then selecting it in the Word Press themes window. However, clearly, php is an evolving technology and many of the themes simply did not work or had minor problems. If your like me, though, you want your stuff to work. One theme simply made the rich text editor not work when setting italicized text. I like the theme, but probably won’t use it. But, I digress.
I would like to extend an invitation to all staff and faculty members at Bishop Dunne who would like to host a blog based on the Bishop Dunne website to contact me. I can get you set up and answer some basic questions as I have done some playing around in the Word Press forum interface. Another person using Word Press is J. J. in the library. I believe her “books and beyond” site set up in Word Press. I can help you with setting up new themes and test drive them for you on the server to look for errors and give you the thumbs up or thumbs down. If you have any questions or comments you can post them here and/or contact me at webmaster@bdhs.org
As someone who has let music become less important in his life, I really was not drawn to the iPod culture as many of the younger people were. So, when the school began its venture into the world of podcasting, I found myself in possession of this cool little hard drive with a screen that could hold all kinds of data and media. Just as I do with any other new tech toy, I threw myself into it full force. I love to work with video and am a Mac person through and through, and even purchased the iLife suite of software so that I could use Garageband. I like to think that what keeps me vital is being constantly active both mentally and physically. Before long I had explored the basics of the xml feed file and had my