Welcome to Constant Etherpad!

These pads are archived each night (around 4AM CET) @ http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/
An RSS feed from the etherdump also appears on http://constantvzw.org/

To prevent your public pad from appearing in the archive and RSS feed, put or just leave the following (including the surrounding double underscores) anywhere in the text of your pad:

    __NOPUBLISH__

Changes will be reflected after the next update at 4AM.Understand the Circle URL

Goal:

• Learn about the magnificent E2H service by David Potocnik
• Learn to create new pages/pads on the Circle website

The very long URL of a Circle page:
http://www.ooooo.be/etherhtml/e2h.php?link=pad.constantvzw.org/p/circle1&STYLE&BTN&customcss=//www.criticalclouds.be/50505/50505.css

Also:
http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/circle1



E2H:
Etherpad to HTML transform service: http://totalism.org/E2H/

Etherpad: 
a highly customizable Open Source online editor providing collaborative editing in really real-time. ( http://etherpad.org/)

• Advantages: 
• 
  
• - theoretically radically open:
• - “anonymous” (no need to register)
• - no restrictions
• 
  
• Disadvantage: 
• 
  
• - frightening for non-tech people:
• - very limited styling options (style and structure)   
• - iconofobic: no pictures, color, titles etc

Example:

Solution:
Eterpad to HTML transform service

Creating a new page:

Making use of Totalisms E2H (Etherpad to HTML transform service)

1. Making use of Etherpad Constant installed on the server of constantvzw.org

http://pad.constantvzw.org/index.html



      2.   Create pad    -> name, for example “mynewpad”           

http://pad.constantvzw.org/public_pad/mynewpad


      3.   Copy the url of the pad in the URL (so it becomes reachable for the PHP setup hosted on oooooo.be
        http://www.ooooo.be/etherhtml/e2h.php?link=pad.constantvzw.org/p/mynewpad&STYLE&BTN&customcss=//www.criticalclouds.be/50505/50505.css

      
       4. The css file is stored here:
        http://www.criticalclouds.be/50505/50505.css

        CSS impacts on the appearance of the content: links, title, colours font, background
        Color, width of the page, displaying pictures etc..

        If you wish you can copy it and host it on another place, and modify it.



5. Originally created by http://totalism.org/E2H/  
        All information over there: @dcht00 (david@middlemachine.com)