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Our time map for Dryden's The Assignation: or, Love in a Nunnery can be found here:
http://courses.ats.rochester.edu/eaves/timeline/polan/TimeMap_Lab.html

Our timemap of William Congreve's "The Way of the World" is here.

The projects are coming along nicely but I've come accross a small fix that I think most of you will benefit from. The timeline code is set up in intervals of months on the top and years on the bottom. If your data points (dates) are far apart (and most of them are) you can change the top interval to years or even decades- just replace Timeline.DateTime.MONTH with Timeline.DateTime.YEAR or imeline.DateTime.DECADE. Then change the next band Timeline.DateTime.YEAR to Timeline.DateTime.DECADE or Timeline.DateTime.CENTURY.

You can change the colors by changing this part of the code:

this.ether = {
backgroundColors: [
"#B27",
"#367",
"#CCC",
"#AAA"
],

#B27 is that purple and #367 is the turquoise. Feel free to change them- here is a website with colorcodes: http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_colornames.asp

I'll be in my office from 9-12 tomorrow to help with the TimeMap projects. Email me if you'd like me to look at yours and see if I can help.

Nora

You need to use escaped html to add images to your bubbles in the timeline project- The CDATA tag doesn't seem to work -here is a little tool that will write them for you:

<a href="http://www.reconn.us/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,62/">http://www.reconn.us/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,62/</href>

so you put <img src=?image.jpg?/> in the box and it will write the escaped html for you- just paste it into the description either before or after your description text (with a space of course) and it should add your pic as long as it is in the root folder of your webserver.

Chris Stavlas and Ian Harmand have selected John Dryden's play, "The Indian Emperour" (1667), for their timemap project.

If you had a timemap webpage from the lab that wasn't working don't dispair- I've fixed everyone's Google Maps Keys and did a little code cleanup so everyone is starting Friday's lab with a working webpage. I've got office hours tommorrow from 2-4 if you need any help with anything project-wise.

Nora (ndimmock@library.rochester.edu)

Bryan, Matt and John's group hereby select Francis Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum: or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries for their timemap.

I'll spend a LOT of time in my office this week if you'd like some one-on-one help with the timeline/timemap project. T,W,TH 2-5 and Friday 9-11 am. Feel free to contact me about meeting other times- I'm pretty flexible THIS week- gone next week but will return for Friday's lab.

I'll post all of the documents from today's lab, including the powerpoint, to the Blackboard course. I am following up on the Google Maps Key issue and suspect it has something to do with the courses server so don't stress over that issue at this point in the project. If you uploaded a TimeMap_Lab.html page to your webserver folder and you don't see ANYTHING then your problem is NOT the maps key. I looked at everyone's folder's this afternoon and noticed the following problem:

The following link to the TimeMap folder you uploaded today was corrupted by Dreamweaver (Dreamweaver thinks it is really smart and tries to add information sometimes that you don't want- like the path to the folder on the desktop instead of just the folder name- that happped to a number of you) The code should look like this:

<script src="timemap/timemap_full.pack.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

and NOT:

<script src="TimeMap Lab CD/timemap/timemap_full.pack.js" type="text/javascript"></script>