The RETIRED
TEACHERS
ASSOCIATION of Chicago 111 N. Wabash Ave. Suite
2010 Chicago IL
60602-2949
The RTAC Website Manager
The RTAC Webmaster will be
responsible for maintaining and updating the RTAC.ORG Website.
This consists of updating information concerning significant
announcements/events along with updating the calendar, including
posting and coordinating material with the Executive Director,
President and Committee chairs. Depending on the time of
year and upcoming activities, changes/updates occur about once or
twice a month but may be needed as often as daily, especially when
the Illinois Legislature is in session. Major updates are needed
at the end of the year when legislation and workshops need to be
archived. At least once a year a Crawler or Spider program
(Zenu, ScreamingMonkey, etc.) should be used to find broken or
disconnected links.
The website is constructed in plain HTML and is HTML 5.0
compliant. Because it is in plain HTML, the webmaster should keep
a mirror of the site on their own computer and make (and verify)
changes off line. Any WYSIWYG editor (i.e. Mozilla's
SeaMonkey, Microsoft's Expressions4, etc.) can be used to make
changes to the local HTML page(s). Some pages are in
Portable Document Format (PDF) and require a PDF editor (i.e.
Adobe Acrobat, Nuance Power PDF, etc.) to edit/update.
Graphics can be edited using a program similar to XnView.
Once the changes have been made on your local computer, the edited
files will need to be uploaded using a FTP program (FileZila or
similar).