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--- blog:2019-07-05:a_few_changes_to_the_website [2019/07/21 07:28] – ve7hzf
+++ blog:2019-07-05:a_few_changes_to_the_website [2024/11/24 12:49] (current) – va7fi
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-====== New (and Old) Changes to the Website ======
+====== What's New ======
-We've made a few minor changes to the website but I wanted to be transparent because we didn't really consult each other.  So feel free to offer suggestions here...
+This is a running post that will be bumped up every so often whenever there's significant changes to the website.
-===== Photos Section =====
+  * Added a "You are here" section at the top of every page.  This will help navigate to previous sections when going deep into a section.  For example: \\ {{:blog:2019-07-05:youarehere.png?400}}
-  * VA7SMI added a [[/Photos]] section, which I think is great.  One of the issues it created though is that the header became a bit too long and the formatting can break when the browser window is resized.  From a design perspective, I also don't want too many items in the header as it can feel cluttered.
+===== Refs =====
-  * <del>So to keep the photos section up, I've merged the old **Repeater** and **Nets/Contacts** sections under the new [[/contact |Club Info]] section.</del> I pulled the [[/nets |Nets]] section back out and shortened the name of some of the headers instead.
+  * <fc #ff0000>New:</fc> Fixed a few mistakes on the [[links/radioprogramming#frequencies |Frequency lists]].
-  * I reorganized the [[/photos |Photos]] section with different pages for different decades to help the pages load more quickly.
+  * <fc #ff0000>New:</fc> Expended the [[references:home|References]] section a bit.
-  * I used a standard width of 600px for landscape pictures and 300px for portrait, and sometimes put multiple portrait pictures side by side.
-  * To help with formatting, I used tables.  See these two pages to learn more about how to use them: [[syntax#tables |table syntax]], [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:tablewidth |table width plugin]]
+===== How-To =====
+  * <fc #ff0000>New:</fc> Finished the page about [[links/chirp |CHIRP]].
+  * <fc #ff0000>New:</fc> Fixed a few mistakes on the [[links/7300digital |Digital with 7300]] page.
+  * <fc #ff0000>New:</fc> Moved a news post about [[links/conceptual_electronics_videos|Conceptual Electronics Video]] to the How-to section.
+  * Added two pages about RFI in the [[links:home#hf|HF section]].
-===== News Feed =====
-  * I changed the number of news item displayed on the front page from 10 to 4, and the number of lines previewed from 3 to 1 to make our front page more less cluttered.
+===== Members' Page =====
-  * Older news items can still be read by scrolling to the next page number, or by reading the separate [[/newsfeed |News Feed page]] that shows all posts on one page.
+  * The [[/memberscorner/echolinklog |Echolink log]] is updated every month of so.
-  * I also removed duplicate links that are now only found on the top-right corner of the page:
-{{  :blog:2019-07-05:newsfeed.png  }}
-===== Echolink Log =====
+===== News Feed =====
+  * Added ''tags'' to each post using the year and month to add filtering and sorting capability to the list. {{ :blog:2019-07-05:tags.png }} \\ For the tags to work, the month must be formatted as the first three letters: ''Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec''
-  * I posted the Echolink connection logs in the [[/memberscorner/echolinklog |Member's Corner]].  I'll try to update every month or so.
+  * Any news item with the tag "''pin''" will also appear at the top of the side bar.  This should be used sparingly for a few days / weeks for important items we want to keep at the top. For example: {{ :blog:2019-07-05:pinned.png }}
-===== 2m Relocation Posts =====
-  * The possible 2m relocation issue has generated a lot of buzz and I wanted to add a new link from RAC that I read recently, but I didn't want to add a fourth post about it, so I combined all posts into one and changed the date to today to send it back to the top.
-===== Comments =====
-  * I also think it could be cool to have a "comment" section for the posts.  Dokuwiki supports this, unfortunately, from personal experience trying this on my one website, they get taken over by spam.  One simple way for us to comment would be to use the character ''>'' followed by a comment and a signature icon: {{:blog:2019-07-05:icons.png?}}.  For example:
-> Feel free to comment about the website changes or other things you'd like to see on it!  --- //[[ve7hzf@rbox.me|Patrick, VE7HZF]] 2019/07/05 07:25//