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It's so easy even 7 year old children can do it. If you are able to move a mouse, click a few buttons and string a few sentences together you can maintain a cutting edge site.
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Archive page for Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Tu, Mar 18, 2008Laughing at my own jokes
[Background:] I've been watching the updates come in today. At last, Matt at Croft Community in Walsall is emailing stuff into the site. He had been uploading pictures one-by-one, which was much faster than writing HTML and FTPing.
I guess, he thought it couldn't get much faster, which is why after nearly 2½ years he's finally begun emailing stuff...
I suggested that he may also send stuff deeper into the site, if he needed to. He replied...
Matthew Prosser wrote:
I on a bit of a mission today. Have staff emailing stuff to me and then I forward it onto the website. The kids are really getting to the teachers so I gathered the more I mail, the more the kids will moan and then the more news items I will get sent and the website will be busy. Or something like that. I will have a look at emailing into site structure.
Many thanks
Matt
Steve Hooker replied:
Perfect! If they're emailing you. Why don't they email the site!
This has been my cunning plan all along, and they fell for it. Mmmmhaawww!
Now, you don't have to be the one and only. They too can be updating the site, even Mr Dickenson [the Head] :-))))
Share the fun :-)
And the glory.
You'll need to add them as editors and add their email address to the authorised senders list.
And then you're away. Can you imagine their faces when you tell them to, "update the bloody site yourself." Mmmmhaawww!
Or, don't tell them, just tell them to email this address instead of that address. While you put your feet up, drink tea in the computer room reading 'men's magazines.' Mmmmhaawww!
Steve
[My own joke:] I liked the idea of Matt sitting back while the rest thought he was working hard. Later, Matt replied...
Matthew Prosser wrote:
They are all interested in posting stuff but I like to add detail and check. Some people have strange ideas about what makes a good post so when they send it at 11 o'clock at night and I don't spot it till the morning and have to remove it knowing our Pakistan audience have seen it—it's too late. I just like control I guess because it will be me who gets moaned at.
I had one the other day about someone trying a sausage–not a good thing to put on our website with the children we have here.
Matt
Steve Hooker replied:
Oh. So you're like the twins and the ticker machine in Good Morning Vietnam.
I suppose it's a simple task to edit and forward. Just so long as it's easy for you—that's my mission :-)
Steve
I guess, he thought it couldn't get much faster, which is why after nearly 2½ years he's finally begun emailing stuff...
I suggested that he may also send stuff deeper into the site, if he needed to. He replied...
Matthew Prosser wrote:
I on a bit of a mission today. Have staff emailing stuff to me and then I forward it onto the website. The kids are really getting to the teachers so I gathered the more I mail, the more the kids will moan and then the more news items I will get sent and the website will be busy. Or something like that. I will have a look at emailing into site structure.
Many thanks
Matt
Steve Hooker replied:
Perfect! If they're emailing you. Why don't they email the site!
This has been my cunning plan all along, and they fell for it. Mmmmhaawww!
Now, you don't have to be the one and only. They too can be updating the site, even Mr Dickenson [the Head] :-))))
Share the fun :-)
And the glory.
You'll need to add them as editors and add their email address to the authorised senders list.
And then you're away. Can you imagine their faces when you tell them to, "update the bloody site yourself." Mmmmhaawww!
Or, don't tell them, just tell them to email this address instead of that address. While you put your feet up, drink tea in the computer room reading 'men's magazines.' Mmmmhaawww!
Steve
[My own joke:] I liked the idea of Matt sitting back while the rest thought he was working hard. Later, Matt replied...
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Matthew Prosser wrote:
They are all interested in posting stuff but I like to add detail and check. Some people have strange ideas about what makes a good post so when they send it at 11 o'clock at night and I don't spot it till the morning and have to remove it knowing our Pakistan audience have seen it—it's too late. I just like control I guess because it will be me who gets moaned at.
I had one the other day about someone trying a sausage–not a good thing to put on our website with the children we have here.
Matt
Steve Hooker replied:
Oh. So you're like the twins and the ticker machine in Good Morning Vietnam.
I suppose it's a simple task to edit and forward. Just so long as it's easy for you—that's my mission :-)
Steve
