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Media Archive pages for CDH events

August 13th, 2013

Steve Anderson

I’ve added some CDH archival material to the Events page.

Rather than creating new posts in the WordPress structure for archival materials, I created these “media archive” web pages from scratch.

It can be difficult to deal with audio files within WordPress — plugins are needed, and sometimes files must be hosted on third-party servers. Also, these audio files are much too large to be housed within the WordPress library.

By creating these external web pages, which are still hosted on our UCR/CDH webspace, we’re able to playback the audio recordings of past events using HTML5 technologies that are built into modern web browsers.

I also uploaded the event photographs to the WordPress library, and I made links to them on these media archive pages.

On the Events page, posts about past events are listed in red — and posts containing archival materials are listed in gray.

 

Here are the links to the posts I created, and more material is forthcoming:

http://cdh.ucr.edu/a/cdh-kang.html

http://cdh.ucr.edu/a/cdh-raley.html

http://cdh.ucr.edu/a/cdh-anderson-willis.html

http://cdh.ucr.edu/a/cdh-clement.html

http://cdh.ucr.edu/a/cdh-juhasz-bookchin.html