The full title of this project is: Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe and is a Research Network funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme. I am building a web site using ExpressionEngine. I have also set up a BaseCamp site to help them manage the project.
Here is a sample page for the project
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
I have now posted the first podcast section to the Migrant Cinema web site.
I wasn’t able to record the talks myself. They were recorded with a Sony D3 tape deck. This was fine but transferring to digital takes a long time. Always good to have something else to do while the audio transfers.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
I have added a section for books.
I am using the Amazon plug-in for ExpressionEngine to deliver book information. All that the editor needs to do is to enter the book title and and the ASIN number and the rest is automatic. The is an option for the researcher to add in their own notes about this book.
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
A good feature: when viewing films, it is possible for Project Participants to ask to borrow the DVD from the collection in the Project Library. How does this work?
By extracting the title, director and date from the ExpressionEngine tags, then we pass that via the URL to the email form page. The email message is then populated from the text in the last three segments of the URL.
Can’t be demonstrated unless you are logged in with correct permissions, but it really works.
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Image gallery now added. These images are displayed as thumbnails within the film entries.
There is also a link to a larger image. Example here.
Monday, April 03, 2006
The Migrant Cinema site is now live.
The site is now running entirely within ExpressionEngine and we have implemented a forum. Login is now possible for project participants and coordinators.
The web site can be found here
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
I now have progress with the project now running in ExpressionEngine. Template building still underway, but it looks OK so I have made it live.
Monday, February 20, 2006
We have the domain registered and have posted the first attempt.
I am very pleased with this and it represents a little bit of a departure; I have ranged everything right and ued the space on the left for a map of Europe. This shows more or less depending on the screen size. This is a fixed layout, but rather than going for a centered design, I have pushed everything over to the right of the window.
We are fortunate to be able to use the image from the poster of the film: Crossing the Bridge, Fatih Akin (2005). Photo courtesy of Corazón International/Hamburg. I have used the colours in this image to build a colour scheme.
AHRA Conference for Dep. of Architecture
Brookes eJournal of Learning and Teaching
Institute for Historical and Cultural Research
Medicine Publishing gone over to Elsevier
Borrowing a DVD from the Library
AHRA Conference Version 2 of the Prototype