Website update, 7/23/2009

The long-overdue update of our site software from Drupal 5.2 to Drupal 5.19 was completed successfully today. While the site was offline, I took the opportunity to make a few other updates. The most significant of these is a new WYSIWYG  (what you see is what you get) editor on all content creation pages. No need to learn HTML and/or WikiText tags anymore if you want to format your posts -- just use the buttons that appear over the text entry field.

Unfortunately, installing this software necessitated a shift in the way the site interprets content globally. As you're browsing the site, you'll probably run across some pages on which the formatting is wrong, old tags are showing in the text, links don't work, etc. No content at all has been lost, but the formatting will definitely cause some inconveniences, especially on pages where links were included in the text using the old-style wikilink tags. I'll be working over the next few days to reformat these pages. If other site users want to join in on this project, feel free: on any page showing the old tags rather than actual formatting in which you think you can discern the author's intent, just open the post, click on the edit tab, and reformat the text with the handy new editor tool. (This will apply for the most part to workbook pages, since most users can't edit other users' blog posts, so I'll take care of those).

Details of these changes and others can be found on the Website To-Do page. Eventually, I'll be updating and rationalizing that page and its sub-pages as well, including the addition of dedicated bug report/feature request pages.

Oh, and I made some minor changes to the color scheme of the site. If you'd prefer something different, or have advice about the overall look and feel of the site, for now you can contact me through the Site Administrator Contact Form until I get the feature request pages up and running.

Taylor Brady

posting as Nonsite Web Administrator