Boston Cream Pie for everyone!
Okay, so we’re not giving out free Boston Cream Pie. But soon, we will give all you Zapatistas access to this website, so you can help keep it up-to-date with current events and shameless plugs.
Right now, this website only consists of a blog; we intend to add much more in the near future (by Thanksgiving, say). The front page works basically like a bulletin board, and all you need to do is to log into Movable Type (MT is a webmail-like service, run right out of our dorm’s CGI account), click on Create a new entry, and type away.
You don’t need to know HTML: there are a few buttons right above the textbox that let you make text bold, add a link, etc. I’m working to install an add-on that’ll make the New Entry form work a lot more like Word, so you can even add cute little tables to your entries without even knowing an apostrophe from an angle bracket – though if that’s the case, you might want to take Aton’s CS1B class, now enrolling.
Our intent is to have people post some of their announcements to this website instead of to the mailing lists, to reduce some load on everyone’s inboxen and stuff. Because we want the whole world – not just mailing list subscribers – to see that we truly are tu papá.
Once our midterms are out of the way, we’re going to start going around the dorm, signing people up for Movable Type. All we need to know is your name, e-mail address, and birthplace (you’ll find out why later), and we’ll try to set you up right then and there. If you can’t wait to try your hand at defacing enhancing the Zapata website, just e-mail me with your information (but don’t spam the mailing list!) and we’ll set you up.
By the way, Dave, is Boston Cream Pie any good? I always hear about it on Arthur. Also, did anyone notice that we’re already Google’s first result for “casa zapata”? Google loves blogs.