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Website Software Upgrade Status |
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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, July 22 2009 |
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Your friendly canton Url Steward here with news on the web site upgrade status...
Joomla 1.1 to 1.5 upgrade status: partially on hold
Making the change from ver 1.x to ver 1.5 is very time-consuming and a litle difficult...like pulling nails/teeth/hair. However, since the newest version of the core content management software still doesn't offer the one thing that would make going through the proccess worth it, I'm holding off on the core update for now...hopefully ver 1.6 will have the changes I need to make the effort worthwhile.
So instead, I simply made some small changes to some of the components to update the current functionality. - I removed the online event calendar. It wasn't being utilized, and it was duplicating information that can be found elsewhere. If the Kingdom ever implements an iCalender complient system that one can subscribe to, I may re-visit the idea of having our own online calender. Notification of upcoming Canton events can simply be announced on the site that way I currently announce the Sew-Whats
- Removed the photo-gallery, again it was not being utilized, it was poorly implemented (had to muck with the core management software to get it to work), and was using more HD space than it was supposed to.
- Added the ability for content editors (the officers basically) to embed video (hosted elsewhere) in their content. This ability was specifically requested by the Master of Stables so he could post fighting videos to the web site. Wearing my A&S hat, I can envision some other uses for that function as well.
Changes that still need to be made (most will occur over the next couple days). - Create a link to the Baronial/Kingdom online calender
- Create an interactive subscribe/unsubscribe from for the Canton's email list....need to talk to Stu about the particulars for that.
- Create a Who's who page for the Canton with maybe links to the Antir Culture-Wiki...may actually ask for a volunteer to do this part and to keep it updated, Or alternatively, come up with a way for folks to register on the canton's web site and update the info themselves...hmmm...have to think about that some more.
- Create a page for the Porte Chalice award. Will need some help on this one...I'm looking for a chronological list of recipients with a little info as to why they received it....Also, if folks have any images of the scrolls that were made for some of the recipients, that would be nice to have as well.
If anyone has any suggestions for things they'd like to see, let me know. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, July 22 2009 )
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