星期一, 十一月 19, 2007

About AnimalsTaiwan's Newsletter

With Michelle's recommendation, I worked with Kim to publish AnimalsTaiwan's Newsletter, the third volume.

Kim is good at editing, and she have finished a lot of work by herself. At first, Kim just sent out many letters to ask many volunteers in AT to write about some events happened recently. After received the replies, Kim again sent out letters to ask translators to make all the articles be bilingual. Now that all the articles were prepared, all the jobs went toward me.

I used the HTML template created by Peter to edit this newsletter. There were several things happening when I was processing the newsletter. Kim was good partner, but she did not collected all the files for me. I had to check about more than 10 emails before I could start the work because all the files were separated between different emails. Some of the translations were missing, and Kim did not find out. After I finished the missing parts question, here came the question number two: SEO, search engine optimization, issues with HTML. Given that I had talked about SEO issues about our web sites to Peter before, I should not just neglect this issue. However, I had deadline, so I only use some "h1", "h2". It was not a good job from the SEO view point.

Shits happened again and again. First, people told me that many of our members emails should change to the new ones. After I finished it, they told me that I should encrypt the emails. That meant that I have to use Email riddler. When I was using Email riddler, several bugs just jumped out again. I still do not understand now why Javascript does not use semicolon as separator for each line. Every time I pasted the script generated by web tool, some of the Javascripts automatically combine together, which causes bugs and errors. Furthermore, selecting suitable photos for every pages was also a difficult job.

Finally, this job has been done.