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by **VicePresident** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 8:12 pm

Folks,

At long last we are ready to bring on-line the new SubCommittee web site!

We have listened to what people have been asking for and many of those requests have been incorporated into the new web site. One of really exciting new capabilities that we have created is the ability for SubCommittee members to create their own homepage and upload photos of their sub projects directly to the web site. We have also made it very easy for our new Webmaster and his staff to update the site with photos, links, and other assorted information. (Stay tuned for that announcement....)

Our plan is to cut over the new site starting early Friday evening (EDT). This will include moving the message forum to its final deployment location. During this time, we will write lock the forum while the forum database is backed up and moved. This will not impact anyone's ability to *read* the forum during this time. The new site is expected to be fully operational by late Friday evening.

-many thanks,
Jeff

by **Dolphin** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 10:01 pm

Sounds excellent Jeff, thank you. Will we have a way to do a search of this current message forum, and the previous forum format too? I wish I could search back several years for data.

Thanks again.

Steve Reichmuth

by **Desert Boat** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 1:00 am

Just think, many of us are so computer stupid that we cannot fathom the work it must be taking you guys to do all this work. But, you know - someone will be complaining about something! Keep up the good work and remember we do appreciate all the hard work!

Website · by **Ron** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 12:39 pm

Once again thanks to all of you for making this happen. It
will be a real pleaseure to be able to post pictures direct to our site. It just will mean that some of us myself included will
have to get alittle more literate on the ins and outs of using the various formats.

Ron

by **Mkeatingss** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 3:14 pm

Well done, Jeff. You're continuing the tradition of advancement and quality that Andy started with this board. He should be proud of you.
Mike

Website · by **JWLaRue** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 7:41 pm

Steve,

The current board has a search capability!

As for the old message board contents, we've taken a look at the possibility of making the contents available in some form of search/index capability.....but quite frankly in the year that we've been on the new forum there have been something like 3 or 4 requests for this. Given our scarce resources, it's hard to justify the effort!

Everyone: many thanks for the kind comments. It is always nice to hear them. It helps to balance the issues that we have to deal with on occasions to know that folks *do* appreciate what a very, very small set of volunteers are doing to keep this organization alive.

-Jeff

by **ThierryC** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 10:02 pm

Is the photo gallery going to be fixed ? It looks like 95% of the pictures are missing. It would be a shame to lose all those pictures.

Website · by **JWLaRue** » Fri Jan 16, 2004 8:34 pm

Thierry,

Excellent question!

The existing photo gallery will temporarily be kept available via a link on the new photo gallery page. Those photos that make sense to be moved to the new web site will be moved over time.

-Jeff

by **Rockpile** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 4:24 pm

Well done on the new Board.
just one question for now. ( How do we edit the new Homepages we create) ie remove pictures edit captions.

Website · by **JWLaRue** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 4:39 pm

.....if you go to your homepage, you should see a little red "x" beneath each photo. If you select it, that will delete the photo.

There should be a caption edit option as well, but I now do not see it. Let me check!!

-tnx,

Jeff

Website · by **kd6hq** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 9:39 pm

Some parts of the "new" board do not appear to function - that's fine everything takes time. But just to make sure I added 2 book reviews and possibly a third "empty" review. I only see one of the reviews on the "Books" list and do not see a way to edit my posted reviews. I would like so be able to see if I did post a "blank" review and see what happened to the second review.

thanks

Don

Website · by **JWLaRue** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 11:01 pm

Hi Don,

I see two book reviews that have been submitted by you. They are waiting for webmaster review/approval before they are then made publically visible.

There's no sign of the third blank one.

I'm guessing that Bob will be right on these now that both NFL games are over. (of course, I'm assuming that he's a football fan!)

-Jeff

Website · by **kd6hq** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 1:48 am

Thanks for letting me know, now I know how the system works.

Don

Website · by **JWLaRue** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 12:09 pm

.....this has been a good question that you raised. It points out that we need to post something that describes the capabilities of the new web site.

We'll get working on it!

-tnx,

Jeff

Website · by **Crazy Ivan** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 6:22 pm

JWLaRue wrote:There should be a caption edit option as well, but I now do not see it. Let me check!!

I see the photo caption edit is now functional, as I have just used it. Well done, guys!

Hmmm... I wonder why the font here in my reply appears so small?

( I entered it using the "Quote" function.)

Edited By Crazy Ivan on 1074810788

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