Well, if someone has the motivation whether intrinsic, or extrinsic…perhaps PSA karma point, they could see about finding the various tech tips that have been posted or emailed since our website safari began back in late 2012. It now has a category. This is #1.
As we progress along, there’s an awful lot one can do to a web page, and we have only scratched the surface, so to speak. Like scratching the glass on one’s iPad? But that’s the way we wanted to start out, adding features incrementally, and not attempting to make our website a showcase for all that can be done at a website.
OTOH, we do want to use the coolest stuff, if it fits, affordable, not too hard to configure, and really adds a needed element. Cool feature creep is a definite slippery slope though. Don’t know about you, but I went through my phases of customizing absolutely everything inside and out, up and down, every which way but straight… my hardware, software etc. One learns the benefits, and the costs by doing. After a while, the benefits of customization seemed less worth the hassles of conflicts and crashes.
So, we’ll see. One of the fun things, for me, doing my NMSU OTL website for the practicuum, was messing with links on pages. You know, where you move your cursor over something and something else pops up. That something could be anything, a Voki perhaps, a video starting up… or, well, maybe you’ll see more how my imagination was working at that time if I can successfully upload my website files to Host Gator someday.
For today’s tip (yes there sort of is one here)…one might note that not only can we link a text, we can link an image. Same way: one adds the image to the post content box where we presently have been adding text, and then selects it, and then chooses the chain link function button or Alt/Shift/a…and fills in the URL one wants the image to “link to”.
When the user clicks on the image, the link will activate. Check out the Course Portal pages for an example. Both Course Catalog and Start Course have images that link to other “stuff” when clicked on.
Another more elaborate thing I notice appears available to us, is to “map” a part of the page as an active area… which when the cursor clicks on that area, will activate a link. And although I haven’t checked it out yet, maybe also just moving a cursor over an active area or “map” on the page can “activate a link”.
Fortunately, perhaps, I’m busy doing other things, and those sorts of fun things will have to, mostly, come later. A likely place for fun like that would be the GameTime Decisions core concepts page…I just now realize. Hmmmm.