Wesleyan Argus Latest Codebase

Below is the codebase source for The Wesleyan Argus retrieved from Gazi (previous web editor from 2 years ago) and is currently a work in progress:

This is a temporary continuation of the Abraham Lincoln theme built for the Wesleyan Argus, the premier campus newspaper at Wesleyan University.

The original website template can be found at https://github.com/wesleyanargus/abraham-lincoln

The Argus can be found at http://wesleyanargus.com

So far, my major progress points have been

1. Learning and building my skills in HTML, PHP, CSS, and Javascript
2. Deciphering the 7-9 year old website code
3. Creating a new section for the Spring food column
4. Updating the old staff page
5. Creating a new section for the podcast on the homepage

The new Food section can be seen on the newspaper site, but images of the change in navigation bar and homepage can be seen below. Note also the addition of the podcast icon in preparation for the podcast release. Seen old navbar vs. new, and old homepage vs. new.

The new staff page can be seen on the website at http://wesleyanargus.com/staff/ and the old one can be found at http://wesleyanargus.com/staff2022/ See below screenshots of the old page vs. new.

The podcast section can be found on the website and in the screenshot below. The podcast headline and info automatically updates itself with respect to our anchor.fm page seen here: https://anchor.fm/theargus-podcast.

Note that the pertinent theme folders correspond by greatest value, i.e. 1.0 is oldest, and each next value is more recent. As far as the updates go: gazi1.0 involves an updated food section gazi1.1-1.2 involve updated CSS for the staff page and some minor website tweaks gazi1.3 includes updated CSS for the podcast classes, new HTML for the new tab, and new PHP to compliment the necessary elements of the new section.

I believe these updates encompass the immediate goals that the group needed covered. I have a multitude of goals moving forward:

• Build skills in HTML, PHP, and CSS
• Learn Javascript
• Learn more about web servers and how they work
• Draft a new website theme
• • Website format that mirrors our printed newspaper
• • Faster running base code
• • Animated buttons
• • Automatically generated Wesleyan-themed games
• • • Crossword
• • • Wordle
• • CSS that is less redundent and more reuseable
• • Generally more modern visual elements
• • Easier to navigate back-end for writers
• • • Wordpress utilities are incredibly limited, they make our articles look like 2010 blogs. I want to build a utility that allows writers and editors to build articles on Google Drive and download them as PDFs. Afterwards, the program would translate it into HTML that would display the PDF in line with the vision the authors had in mind. Then, the editors could simply copy and paste the HTML into the backend and create more visually appealing articles without ever having to learn web design themselves.