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The UCLDH site is built from standard-issue UCL materials, which, however, have received a fair number of tweaks over time, so here be documentation.
Look and feel
In collaboration with Claire and Melissa, Rudolf designed the UCLDH logo in November and December 2009. The UCLDH site originally came to feature a UCL Light Blue version of the logo in the left sidebar. For the public UCLDH launch event, Murdoch's designers, whoever they were, juxtaposed a UCL Navy Blue header banner with the logo's Palette Remix placing it directly underneath the banner's UCL acronym (photo). Rudolf liked the resulting effect and asked for a login to the UCLDH site, so he could implement the idea on the site, removing the logo from the left sidebar and adding the more colourful version to the right sidebar.
There were a few other readily apparent improvements to the site, so he started tinkering a bit.
First and foremost, the site needed an overall background colour. UCL's "corporate theme" had obviously been designed with such a background colour in mind, which, however, the UCL IS geeks removed, resulting in the weird, bloodless and unfinished-looking "corporate theme". UCL Navy Blue seemed the perfect fit.
Other tweaks followed, most of which were made in custom CSS, where they are documented in the comments. Custom CSS can be edited in the "local stylesheet", which requires "Chief Editor" Silva privileges to access.
Events Section
Silva doesn't support tagging or categorisation for events, so to get different feeds for different event types, we needed to set up a bunch of different event streams, which, to date, are DDH, Painless Intros and Digital Excursions, in addition to the plain vanilla Events feed.
The Events main page merges these four feeds into a single stream.
The Events main page [edit here] does an «Includes: Display a Silva document within a Silva document» which pulls in the Events Agenda Viewer [edit here], which in turn calls the Events filter [edit here], which is configured to pull along the four feeds that currently make up the Events main page. The process of adding a feed to the Events filter requires the sacrificial slaughtering of a male goat at midnight, and probably some manipulation of the database string in the location bar to find the feed in the first place, but hey, this is Silva. Here's a screen capture of the four feeds subscribed to the Events filter.
Feeds
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Blog
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Events
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