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Hey all,

Thanks for your patience as we slowly tweak this site into perfection. As you may or may not have noticed over the week, I've been constantly working on the site to tweak all of the smaller things that matter to me. Colours, spacing, font size and so forth have all been slightly changed here and there to get the site looking great. If you have any suggestions, please comment here!

Here's whats on my to do list:

  • Tweak the theme on the new forum layout
  • Tweak the font and spacing on the Photos page
  • Add sane 404 pages to the old pages that seem to be still getting accessed (either by users through bookmarks, or spam bots)
  • Add OCNZ affiliate

Thanks! :toast:

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backwards forums

hey, forums are showing up backwards. 2004 posts first, 2009 last. kinda confusing :wink:
thanks

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Ahh yeah, thanks for that.

Ahh yeah, thanks for that. Fixed I think.

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Update

  • I've added the secondary tab menu. I didn't actually realize this was messing until I added user profile information.
  • Extra personal information is now available. Some fields are hidden away from public view such as email address, address, suburb. Public fields are interests, first name, middle name, surname, birthday and gender. None of these fields are required or necessary by L3 and are provided for your convenience.
  • User pictures (avatars) now have borders and a background and is correctly positioned on the website.
  • Fieldsets that do not expand now have bold titles for clarity.
  • Reduced main content padding to 0.7em rather than 1em.
  • Breadcrumbs have a smaller bottom gap.
  • Added OCNZ affiliate, but logo needs touching up.

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I see that you have added a

I see that you have added a bunch of photos, how about an easy scroll option to view them ? like view next or previous photo? :coffee-toast: bed time wooo :screamy:

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Hmmm, I'll see what I can do,

Hmmm, I'll see what I can do, but other than the date, theres not much else related in the photos.

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Continual updates!

  • Recreated the photos page. The first block now displays eight random photos from the most recent gallery, a second block displays eight random from all of the photos and then there is a reverse list of all of the galleries.
  • Photo albums now contain the date of when the lans were held.
  • Photo albums are now categorized in the years that they were held in the menu.
  • All of the photos have now been uploaded, although some may need tweaking and their body / comments adjusted.
  • Updated to the latest Drupal core, 6.14.
  • Cron runs on a daily basis as an automated process.

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User to User Messaging

Hey perhaps I missed something but is it possible to make contact user feature "a within site messaging service" rather than an email front. Im not sure if you use modules or if you have the bandwidth/space to run something like that. I dont check my spam box often/ever equals my problem.

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I will see what I can do

I will see what I can do about that. Right now, email address's are actually hidden from most users except for those that want them to be visible or contactable via their email. A private message would be handy I admit though. I'll add that to my list of things to do.

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Updates 12/10/09

  • We've updated the Signup module and lost some of the code changes I made earlier, this broke the sign up total code. Have fixed this. [Thanks Maximinus]
  • Updated the Events page, which now catergorizes the Current Events and Past Events into collapsible groups.
  • Added a calendar view to the Events page as well, so you can see how the current month is organized.
  • Installed the Private message module. As per request, you can now send private messages to users. This adds a new menu to your account called 'Messages'.

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Updates 20/10/09

  • Removed extra green border at the bottom of the home page
  • Fixed the RSS listing of events as they were still displaying past events
  • Ordered the events of when they are held, not when they were created. This was necessary for the micro summary to work properly
  • RSS icons have proper margins so they aren't clumped together
  • Colourized the calendar events view on the Events page
  • Photo grids now have a shortened title added to them
  • Photo borders and backgrounds have now been styled to match the rest of the site
  • Photo galleries now display photos as grids instead of lists
  • Photo gallery is now centered
  • When viewing photos you can now click on the photo to go to the next photo
  • When viewing photos links to a previous photo and next photo are located below

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Finished colourizing the

  • Finished colourizing the forum
  • Comment posts are no longer a fixed height
  • Fixed the portraits appearing on the forums

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Updates 23/10/09

  • Fixed ordering of secondary tabs with messages, so that secondary tabs don't look like they are attached to the messages box.
  • Fixed margins between bread crumbs, messages and content. (I think! If you notice anything weird please let me know)
  • Installed a news letter module for Drupal

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Forums are now just a flat

  • Forums are now just a flat list instead of a tiered list
  • Forum view counts are now working

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