Situation: you’ve got WordPress Multi-User setup to host one or more domains in sub-directory mode (as in site.org/blogname), but you want a deeper directory structure than WPMU allows…something like the following examples, perhaps:
site.org/blogname1
site.org/departments/blogname2
site.org/departments/blogname3
site.org/services/blogname3
The association between blog IDs and sub-directory paths is determined in wpmu-settings.php, but the code there knows nothing about nested paths. So a [...]
Posted September 15, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: cms, hack, hacks, information architecture, url path, wordpress, WordPress MU, wpmu. 6 Comments.
Edward “to clarify add detail” Tufte, who criticizes the PowerPointing of America, earlier this year posted a video on the iPhone’s UI design. He loves the photo viewer (except the grid-lines between images are too big), he loves the web browser (except the navigation bar takes up too much space), he calls the weather app an [...]
Posted October 14, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches. Tags: design, edward tufte, information architecture, information design, user experience. Be the first one.
When a writer goes looking for young Turks (my words, not Scott’s), you should expect the story to include some brash quotes (writers are supposed to have a chip of ice in their hearts, after all). On the other hand, we’re librarians, so how brash can we be?
Scott Carlson’s Young Librarians, Talkin’ ‘Bout Their Generation [...]
Posted October 16, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy. Tags: Chronicle of Higher Education, future, information architecture, interview, lib20, libraries, library 2.0. One Comment.
One hundred years ago the country was in the middle of a riot of library construction. Andrew Carnegie’s name is nearly synonymous with the period, largely due to his funding for over 1,500 libraries between 1883 and 1929, but architectural historian Abigail Van Slyck notes that the late 19th century was marked by widespread interest [...]
Posted June 21, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: 19th century, 20th century, Andrew Carnegie, architecture, Carnegie libraries, history, information architecture, libraries. 2 Comments.
