This KOTESOL website and related aspects of KOTESOL's "web presence" are developed and maintained by the KOTESOL webservices team. The Webservices team consists of individuals at the national level as well as webeditors at the chapter, SIG, and committee level.
This is a working document, we also experiment here!
At the national level, the team includes:
B.T. Stoakley, Webmaster
John Phillips, Technologies Committee Chair
Jeroen Root, Video Services
Rob Dickey, webservices
There are a number of "help" pages developed to assist webeditors. You may also contact us using the "contact" form linked from the bottom of every webpage (you must be logged in to access that form) -- http://www.koreatesol.org/contact
Designing pages
(must be logged in with webeditor privileges)
http://koreatesol.org/content/pages-best-practices
http://koreatesol.org/filter/tips
Naturally we suggest that all Webeditors browse the website to see what nifty design concepts can be emulated.
Some words of caution:
- Do not cut and paste from MS Word documents as this brings hidden Microsoft HTML code into your pages which can cause unpredictable results on non-Windows browsers and even create security risks for the site. Please use "paste as text" or cut and paste text sources only. Bad hidden HTML code pasted into a document on the old KOTESOL website may have provided the crack that allowed a hacker to insert a wedge and work in from there. Please don't use MS documents of any type as a direct source for your web page content.
- The use of tables is not encouraged because they do not scale well on mobile screens.
- Inserting spaces and carriage returns, as if you were using an old typewriter are non-standard proper formatting and will break the page on mobile screen sized devices.
- <Shift>+<Return> (Enter Key) will generate a line break <br>. A single Return (Enter Key) alone generates a paragraph break <p> with different spacing "padding" below the previous line of text.
- Graphics; The system is set up to handle graphics automatically. Unfortunately this is not intuitive. The first Picture upload box is used for the header of the page. see: http://www.koreatesol.org/gwangju as an example. The subsequent picture/graphics are loaded through the "Media Attachments" and will appear as expandable thumbnails below your text.
Tables Function
Tables are currently enabled. But not sure it's exactly working correctly. (I asked for 4 rows, but it gave me 30-ish?) Look further below, this page continues (far) below the table.
| Name | cellphone | |
| John Jones | 010-2222-3333 | jjones@thisneverworks.com |
| Argyle Sox | 010-2345-6789 | whydoyoueventry@gmail.com |
Long Quotes
The Blockquotes function is currently enabled.
See this
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
Downloading Chapter Member data
(must be logged in with webeditor privileges)
Only current KOTESOL paid members who selected your chapter are included.
You will find the Members link in the editor's menu on the chapter homepage.
See note on CSV files below.
Downloading Subscribers data of Chapters & SIGs
(must be logged in with webeditor privileges)
Only current KOTESOL paid members who subscribed to your chapter/SIG are included.
You will find the Subscribers link in the editor's menu on the chapter/SIG homepage.
See note on CSV files below.
CSV files from KoreaTESOL.org
* We remind that this information is members' personal information and proprietary to KOTESOL: it must not be shared or used for non-KOTESOL purposes.
You should use Libre Office to access these CSV files (if you try to open these CSV with Microsoft Excel there will be some formatting errors).
Libre Office versions are available for Windows, Macintosh and GNU/Linux.
Free software download: http://www.libreoffice.org/
Information about the settings required to open the KOTESOL CSV files properly
Simply opening the downloaded file with Excel will Not produce data in a useful form. You also need to configure the settings in Libre Office (a one-time activity on your computer) in order to read the hangul characters correctly and ensure that all data falls into the proper fields (columns). This does not affect your regular Excel file settings. http://koreatesol.org/content/csv-files
Changing Passwords
Please retain the assigned Webeditor_XXX as the first name on the account and XXXX as the last name. You may change the currently assigned password. If you do, please select a secure one. If you cannot access the password please contact webservices and we will generate a new password.
Uploading Videos
Communicate directly with Jeroen Root [email] or anyone on the webservices team to get help on uploading videos to the KOTESOL page on Youtube, etc.
Managing KoreaTESOL.org Email accounts
Option 1: Accessing the Bluehost mail account
... Webmail
... POP(etc) settings for external access
Option 2: Forwarding to your personal email account
