website improvements - please make suggestions

Posted on: Sun, 23/03/2008 - 01:00
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website improvements - please make suggestions

I'm making some improvements to the website at the moment.

  1. installing an editor that allows users to add formatting to their posts
  2. possibility to upload pictures, pdf and doc files
  3. using categories to make navigation easier
  4. adding missing content - such as documents we've produced
  5. improve the look
  6. possibly automatically notify users of website updates

If you have any ideas for other improvements, please post them here.


Posted on: Sun, 23/03/2008 - 14:32 #1
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format your posts using the editor

I installed FCKeditor, a Free software (i.e.copyleft) text editor. It will from now appear automatically when you're submitting forum or blog posts. It allows you to :

  • format text - bold, italics, underline, strikethrough, headings, etc
  • insert bulleted or numbered lists, and even tables
  • more importantly, add links: select the text that you want to become a link, then click on the "Insert/Edit Link" icon(), then paste the URL into the URL field that pops up.
  • add pictures, if the picture is available on the interent and you know the URL - this is very similar to adding a link : go with the cursor to the place where you want to insert the image, then click the "Insert/Edit Image" icon, paste the URL of the image you want to enter. There are a lot of things you can configure next, but the only one that will usually be relevant is "Align", often 'left' or 'right' will be the most appropriate.
  • various other things, like smilies, special characters, align text, indent and so on

 It's quite likely that there will be some initial problems with the editor though - please post any problems here and they'll be sorted out.