joe's blog

• try to conclude the class content
• make the plan needed for when I was in Taiwan and Spain.
• put info and plan on the web
• conclude connections and Drupal skills in Vancouver

I used simplenews module in drupal. There is a good article introducing simplenews at group 42. A good presentation is included about 6 mistakes when using Email newsletters by Monique Trottier of Boxcar Marketing. These 6 mistakes remind me my "poor friends" who helped me test my newsletters before. A MUST SEE material. I summarized its content below.

To see how to make it?

• Clear Objectives and properties
  • Students' background
    • student's age
    • student's Chinese proficiency
  • Students' emphasis
    • Listen, write, speak, read
    • Commercial, literal, basic conversation, Culture
  • Study environment
    • The situation at school, society ...

I install an embedded gallery to Drupal. I used Gallery2. There are some issues I met during the installation. I listed below.

• Gallery2 needs Imagemagick for transfering the image picture size, especially when uploading the files.
• The php usually has limit for the size of uploading file. This usually cause huge file uploading error. However, Gallery2 will not tell u.
• For Standalong version with g2image, the document is not clear where to put g2image. It should be put in Drupal not Gallery2. The place is at modules/gallery/gallery_g2image.

Chinese writing is considered to be the most hard part in leanring languages. The writing system does not use romanization and it is not related to the actual pronounciation as well.