A modern replacement to the gallery, Piwigo, is live. AI assisted in fully integrating the look and authentication from day one. This had been on my "to do" list for years, but I did not have the time to implement. Go live took less than a day. Within a week, the minor bugs were killed…
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The News system has been updated. Faster and more consistent display…
It's been years since my last post. Updates: Dark Sky weather, Mobile Friendly, PHP 7 compatible, JQuery integration, Prototype removal, Coppermine Gallery update, Simple Machine Forums reinstall, Roundcube webmail update…
I updated the forum software to the upcoming v2.0 release and the gallery software to the upcoming v1.5 release. There are quite a few changes throughout with these upgrades. The new default theme has inspired a bit of a makeover on the site. Colors are changing, and styles will follow. Expect the rest of the site to slowly catch up.
The Themes have had their first update in quite a while. The forum had a color change, the gallery has been themed to match, and the rest of the site has had small updates to tie them together. The new image item on the home page now rotates among 10 images. If you are logged on, it includes pictures that are only viewable to registered users. :)
It's been a while since I've done any work on this site. Mostly because I've been working on other sites. :P I've got a few things that I want to work on here... The news system will be one of them (I haven't forgotten it). New Today: Forums and Gallery are linked! That's right, one login for both systems. This will streamline using this board and gallery. It also allows family members to post in the forums using only the family login.
Weather is Ajaxified- adding an update indicator, auto-refresh, and other good stuff on the backend. I am using the script.aculo.us Ajax engine. Home page has improved CSS code for the columns. Minor updates to Gallery and Webmail have been completed. The Family page now has improved reliability when accessing the Gallery. If you log off the Gallery, visiting the family page will automatically log you back in.
Coppermine (the photo gallery) has had a minor update to v1.4.4. On the webmail side of things, I have been doing a lot of testing, evaluating, and analyzing. Nothing is ready yet... but hopefully soon a new webmail system will take over on this site. Ilohamail has been good, but it has issues with multi-part messages (I want a better display for these).
OK. I have finally found the time to resolve a few things with the site. Namely, the new forums are online. The structure of the forums is simpler. Coppermine had a minor upgrade to v1.4.3. I am also re-evaluating webmail apps... expect more changes. ;D
