Posts Tagged ‘JFF.com’
A Note on AP Style
I have been bathed in AP Style since I first entered my college newsroom. I have worked at an AP bureau, getting the job at least partly because I knew it so well. I think it’s probably the best style guide for news people. But I’m not going to be a slave to it, [Read More]
Screencasting
Screencasting is, quite simply, recording a computer monitor or part thereof and saving the recording as a video file. The still image equivalent is called a screenshot. There are a lot of different programs and, lately, websites that can do screencasting. In the [Read More]
Development Server
The short version: you’re going to want to have a development server. This is a machine where you start with a copy of your current Web server, database software, programming languages and website files. This lets you make changes without taking down your website, or [Read More]
Setup
Journalism Fast Forward is deliberately built using readily available tools with a very low entry threshold. This means Fantastico, Joomla, phpWiki and about a zillion extensions. (There will be some raw PHP and MySQL in later parts of the project, but even these will be [Read More]
Hosting
Journalism Fast Forward is hosted by A2 Hosting, a fine company that has given me very few problems and good customer support when problems arose, and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend A2 for your website. But I should point out that there are hundreds, maybe [Read More]