admin-hkn-utaustin / ut-hkn-website

Website for UT HKN Psi Chapter

HKN Psi Chapter Website

Newly redesigned in Spring 2015.

Architecture

In order to keep from duplicating header and footer data, the website has been refactored into a set .php and .html documents. The header and footer are stored in __header.php and __footer.php respectively. Each page is broken up into an .html content page prefixed with _ and a main .php document which is used to serve the pages.

Development

Please edit the _*.html fragments to update content. If adding additional pages, remember to create a *.php and a _*.html page and set up the include dependencies. Also add the page to the navigation bar in '__header.php' and the footer in '__footer.php'. To otherwise edit a page, simply edit the '_*.html' page.

Announcements

Announcements are stored in the 'Announcements/' directory. The latest 2 announcements are automatically served on the home page, and all the announcements are served on the Announcements page. To add an announcement, create a *.html file and an appropriate json entry in 'Announcements/index.json'.

ut-hkn-website's Issues

Consult UMich's HKN website for additional content we could include

https://hkn.eecs.umich.edu/

Update fonts

Right now the website is using system default sans-serif fonts. We should look into picking something more modern.

https://www.google.com/fonts

obfuscate email addresses and phone numbers

update contact information

Some of those mailing lists don't exist anymore
I don't think people can actually add themselves to the mailing lists anymore.

Pledge Requirements: start with a summary, link to sections on the page with more info

Split Members section into an Actives and a Pledges page (using navbar dropdown)

Contact info like phone numbers and emails should be obfuscated if possible

Web crawlers might be able to find email addresses and start spamming.

Personal phone numbers are a definite issue. There is a phone number under the about us page, which appears to belong to the president. This might be the office phone number but since that's not clear I wanted to raise the issue.

Date sorting for announcements incorrect

Javascript code for sorting announcements is incorrect.

Assuming the format is YYYY-MM-DD, the javascript sorts it by YYYY then DD then MM.

Pledges Page feels really disorganized

Since there's so much content on the page maybe we should put a list of links as a left-hand sidebar so that people can click through and see where they are in the page.

Also I still believe the tables are the wrong data format for this and I feel like they look inconsistent and stand out in a weird way from the rest of the page content.

We could also do something where the data is structured so they can get the high-level idea and then get more info if they click to expand things. Web 2.0!

Include the HKN national constitution on our server, since it's hard to find on IEEE-HKN website

I'll submit a pull request with the PDF added and linked to. I found the PDF here: https://hkn.eecs.umich.edu/files/?id=50327ad48eca63058928a1b2

Move Faculty Advisors / Friends off of Leadership Page

Create new page for faculty / friends

Centaur hyperlink on the corporate page receives a 404

Replace tables with structured divs on faculty page

http://hkn.ece.utexas.edu/facultyfriends.php

Divs are the preferred layout mechanism for this. Foundation includes classes which makes this easy.

The difference is really apparent when you view from a mobile device. The divs will reflow and display appropriately. The table is rigid and breaks the page.

Example Sig Book Pictures are out of date

Interactive pledge page

With a little javascript and a cookie, we can make the pledge page into an interactive checklist per-user which saves the status. Would be a nice follow-on to #18

If we ever get around to establishing user accounts and logins to our website we could also store the status in the user's data.

Pledge quiz time incorrect (I think)

I assume pledge quiz will be before the 5th pledge meeting, not the 4th one, because we have 5 meetings this semester. We should update that.

Dates referenced from Members page are incorrect (currently Fall 2014 dates)

See Misc requirements table

Actives page should include section on Big requirements

Since active requirements are changed/reduced for bigs, this would be handy

Announcements are duplicated. Store them in a JSON file to be formatted where called for.

Don't use tables for non-tabular data.