The Story of the Website

Updated!

1. Layout
2. System Upgrades
3. Security Updates

Also, awesome paddles from eons ago.

Hello Everyone.

The site has undergone a lot of changes since the initial launch and I am officially giving it a release status of version 1.0! From initial launch, base functionality was intact, but since several features have been added on.

• The expansion of signup options.

• Wide implementation of the module Views 6.x-2.8. Pretty much everything is done with views. A complicated but very powerful tool.

• Addition of blogs. [EDIT for better explanation] Any user can create a blog entry. You can begin by clicking Create content. You must file that entry under a Blog Title. This blog title will appear under our new Primary Link, Blogs. When clicking the Blog Title, all entries under that title will be displayed. Any user can contribute to any Blog Title. However, there will be a tracker for your own blog entries as well.

  For example: Sister A creates a blog entry with title "Delicious Cake" and another entry with title "The Cake is a Lie." Sister B creates an entry with the title "Delicious Cake." Entries by both A and B will be displayed in "Delicious Cake." However, there is a page that will display all Sister A's blog posts from both "Delicious Cake" and "The Cake is a Lie."

  If my example didn't make sense, just click around and figure it out. We're all smart people here. Remember that blogs are public, so no sensitive information please.

I'm pleased with the site as it is right now, but I'm always looking for feedback. Any comments will be put into v1.01, and released by the end of the month. I would like to finalize registration sometime this week, so please continue registering for accounts! And if we could have users use the blogs on this site instead of another site, I think that would increase the usage of this site rather than having two sites that sisters don't check.

LISH
Charles

I recieved the backups from James from the old TBS site. Included files were sigs, documents, and sheetmusic. The midi files for songs were corrupted, so if you would like those back the songleader will need to make them.

This site was tested in Firefox 3 alone. Looking at it in IE7 is depressing. Recommendation: upgrade to FF or Chrome, hell even Opera. If IE isn't going to support CSS3 then to hell with them.

I have copies of the minutes but they are going to be difficult to enter in the website. I'm asking for help from anyone to enter in minutes on the site. Content creation is available to everyone who has an account.

Thank you to those who have currently re-registered with the site, and if you have registered, you will need to login and provide a user picture before your profile will be displayed on the sister page.

I'm glad to have this site on a sister server and I can provide this service for as long as you want it. I don't anticipate another situation requiring reentry of data. Now that it is here, it is manageable and as secure as anything online can be.

LISH
Charles

Use the site :)

The site has now been fully transitioned to my server. Rejoice! Unfortunately, I still don't have some data from the old server such as the user table and older files. That means each user will have to recreate their account.

The site is for sisters, so permissions have been simplified. If you're a sister, you get privileged information. If you're not a sister, you don't get any privileged information.

The main page can be sorted by content type. If you want to view just minutes, you can limit the view to just minutes. If you want to see just announcements, you can order it to view just announcements, etc.

Signups work well, now with custom fields including Name, Phone Number, and shift desired. These fields can be expanded to whatever fields you like. The creator of the signup can also administer attendance for the event with the future ability to track the number of signups attended by each user. Available and current signups also display correctly to Sisters in the sidebar.

The event calendar tracks all events, including signups and standard events. Support for all day events will be added soon.

Announcements carry support for images and files. So excel files can be attached to announcements now... Yeah.

The best feature, I believe, is the new mobile feature. When browsing the site from a supported mobile platform, the theme changes to a much more readable design. From your phone, you can create announcements, events, and signups and you can browse the site just like you would on a full browser.

As far as the older files go, if any other webmasters have ANY backups, that disc is floating around somewhere and it's gold at this point. Otherwise it will become the task of the songleader to remake the pdfs and midis.

LISH
Charles