london commons upgrade

Rating System Brainstorm

Starting this blog as a way to focus ideas on the current user comment rating system. A recent thread regarding an emotionally involved discussion has pointed out some difficulties with the new "karma" system. A few of the sites users have inputted their frustration with the system as it stands.  read more »

Sidebars: both on the right side.  The right-most sidebar will always be visible, and be used for blocks that we always want to display.  The inner sidebar will be for specialized blocks, ones that are only displayed in special cases.  The inner sidebar should not be displayed at all if none of its blocks are to be displayed on a particular page.

Only the outer sidebar should be visible for the front page.

Some of these blocks would have to be created with views.  One or two might not be possible with current versions of modules.  read more »

A few new features introduced to the site tonight.

• Cancel your own account
• Moderate comments in your own blog
• Trackbacks
• reCAPTCHA

We also added a log in link where the log out link is like Alex suggested. Mike McGregor also did some work on the About LondonCommons.net book page.  read more »

So we had a work session to solve some problems that have been discovered since the last batch of upgrades a week ago. Just a quick bit of whats been done:  read more »

I've started some site documentation.. a basic HOWTO for all the stuff on the site.  its open to anyone to edit/add to. 

This can be found under the help menu, called Site Documentation.  

So far, only how to make photo albums, and add images to those photo albums is there... 

I'll continue adding more stuff to it, as I have a strong understand of how everything works.  but feel free to give input where its needed.. I have made a mistake once...... once.. ;)