hpr1538 :: Overhauling the School of Music website

I discuss how I overhauled an outdated website for my employer.

Hosted by Jon Kulp on Wednesday 2014-06-25 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: CSS, html, scripting, accessibility.

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I discuss the process of overhauling a badly out-of-date website to make it conform to accessibility standards and give it a responsive design. I also discuss how I came up with my own content management system by Bash scripting.

Links

School of Music website: https://music.louisiana.edu/
TinyPNG, Web-based tool for optimizing PNG images: https://tinypng.com/
Google developer tool for testing page speed: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
WebAIM, Web accessibility testing tool: https://wave.webaim.org/
HTML compressor: https://code.google.com/p/htmlcompressor/
Font-Awesome Icons: https://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/

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Comment #1 posted on 2014-06-27T01:13:47Z by pokey

Good show. Thank you.

I don't have any websites, but I thoroughly enjoyed listening to you reason out your problem, your solution and the method you used to get there. I really like listening to your episodes. Thanks.

Comment #2 posted on 2014-06-28T16:38:41Z by Dave Morriss

Wayback machine

Hi Jon,

Very impressive show. You said you wished you had a before and after for your site.

I looked on the Wayback Machine and there are old versions of the School of Music's site going back in time, though whether they are what you are looking for I don't know.

Have a look at https://web.archive.org/web/20130128225830/https://music.louisiana.edu/ for example.

Dave

Comment #3 posted on 2014-07-07T10:52:51Z by Jon Kulp

Thanks Dave!

Wow Dave, thanks for the tip. Wayback indeed had the previous version of our site. Kinda scary. I just want it to go away haha!

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