Forms v1
I uploaded order forms to the Flagday site. This is our first cut at online support for forms. Please feel free to provide feedback!
Cupertino Courier - fish-a-thon
Uploaded the article from the Cupertino Courier covering this years fish-a-thon. I have been told there may be an article for the corn feed - need to check.
reminder: get Chuck to write up the event histories for the site.
reminder: need to put together a volunteer form for the events.
reminder: need to put together PDFs of the events for downloads.
reminder: need too register the website wiith Lions International.
reminder: need to list the sponsors for each event.
reminder: need a list of charities supported by the club.
reminder: need to start planning the Navajo page.
musing: do we want a sponsor form?
musing: do we want a event feedback form?
…. need to learn php ….
Site Cutover
I have moved the entire site over to the new format. Please provide feedback.
Bug Report
Checked the site from work:
- IE doesn’t like the img call on the Fish-A-Thon Page.
- IE adds a grey “bar” above the secondary nav menu in the Activities area
- links to TOP OF PAGE are broken
- Blog needs the common footer
Otherwise, it looks fine.
Major Site Update
I uploaded the new pages:
About: About the club, etc.
Events: These are upcomming events. I don’t like using this name for this category, but I need some ideas for alternate naming conventions.
Activities: Major Sub-Category, that I would prefer to call Events. This needs some indtroduction text. Talk with other Lions. I don’t do this well.
I have included the new Sub-Menu bar for this segment of the site. This Sub-Menu links to sub-branches for the site.
Fish-A-Thon: Includes a new side menu that can be flushed out. I have links for About (default) and Article (click to get to it). Both have something there.
Flag Day: I started here, and so it defaults to some links. Again, an about and an artitcle.
The links for the Corn Feed and Wild Game Feed are dead. I haven’t put anything together for these yet.
I decided that Calendar v2 isn’t what we want. I downloaded EventCalendar3 and made the necessary changes to classes.php to run it. This provides us with the little Calender in the sidbar, the comming events listing in the Sidebar, and the Events page by filtering on the category. I need to walk Jack through on how to post events.
Please comment.
Theme Updates III
I have created a generic theme (theme #3 to maintain now) for standard HTML Pages. This theme is for use with pages that are not in WP or CPG. Theme matches the other two.
I am officially ditching iWeb. I can not create any themes in it, so it is no longer useful. That means I need to re-do all the work I have alrady done. Suckage. But doable.
I have created a sub nav bar for activities. It looks like it works well. Need to get it visible to the Club for feedback.
Lots of gaps in content. I am adding dummy text until I can get volunteers to write. I don’t write.
Am finding that we need forms of various sorts. Discuss with the Club.
- Order Form for Flag Day -> PDF
- Contact Form -> FORM -> PERL
- Volunteer Form -> FORM -> PERL
can Jack post to the Blog via email: yes. How?
Linkspam: Include a VIM banner on the normal pages - if I am doing this by hand, I might as well plug VIM. All Hail.
Get Alex to develop a coffee slaves banner. Might as well link to the group, since Ben has been helping, and I still hope to get Alex to help here. I need an artist. More importantly, see if I can bribe Alex to do a Video plug of the Corn Feed. Maybe Ben? Ben might do it in exchange for tickets for his very large family.
Theme Updates II
I have figured out how the header needs to be modified in WP to match the CPG. I am now limited by a lack of knowledge of PHP. Perhaps I’ll pick up a book this weekend.
The WP theme is designed using CSS (duh) which means proper use of DIV tags. The CPG theme uses tables in html. I can do background calls using CSS, but I do not know how to do img calls. Perhaps I’ll find something online.
Found the Calender v2.0. Need to play around with it now.
Plugins to Consider I
1. Fold Category List
2. End of Article
3. Calendar v2.0 (hover calendar)
4. Events (and event page with time until event)
5. Countdown (a sidbar reference - I think)
6. WP-PageNavi - allows for foldable menus in the Sidebar
Theme Summary I
Lessons Learned from last night:
- Coppermine’s main template is HTML & CSS based. This is realitively simple to edit.
- PHP calls are handled entirely different between WP and CPG - you must keep them straight.
- WP is entirely CSS driven. You can not make basic HTML calls in the templates. All the components of the WP template are php calls defined by the CSS.
To insert an image into a WP theme, you must define a DIV, with the image as a background call. If there is another way, I haven’t found it yet.
- WP uses the comments at the front of the CSS to determine Theme identity.
Theme Updates
This is more a log for myself than anything else:
changed the Coppermine theme to the public giallo theme.
changed the WordPress theme to the public soft-white theme.
The goal is to tweak these themes into something that resembles each other.
Started Lions_CPG_Theme as a customized Coppermine Theme.
Added new “logo.”
Started to add the generic nav bar at the top.
Need orientation and outline to match the WordPress Theme. How is this handled in php links in WP?
done.
Need to look into matching the header from CPG to WP. What is involved?
done. i’m tired.
Next:
1. Add a spacer to duplicate the “menu” in CPG.
2. Look at the sidebars.
