Phase 1 of New Website Deployed

If you are reading this then Phase one of the new site has probably been deployed!

In summary it is a Drupal based site focusing on Blogs and Image Galleries. All customizations were done using Drupal modules. It has no custom code; not a single line; so it should be easy to keep up-to-date. Even so the site offers a wide range of features for the club's members. For example, a more-or-less WYSIWYG editor for posts; one that supports adding existing pictures from the site into your post or uploading one from the editor.

The forums have been drastically pared down. Most of the old sites forums when unused. So I have consolidated them into a dramatically smaller list. However, if there becomes a need I can easily add more.

I also had to guess what image galleries and blog categories we would want. If you need me to add some more just let me know.

There are a few important missing features from the first phase:

1. Email notifications have not been set up. This is because I can not really test this on the development server. This has a number of side effects
   • New users can only get accounts by emailing me. They can not simply sign up for an account
   • Existing users can not reset their passwords without emailing me
   • Users are not notified when comments are posted to their nodes (images, blog posts, forum topics, etc.)
   • Users can not subscribe to nodes.
2. The style of the site is not club or hobby specific. It is still more-or-less a plain-old Drupal site.

The email notification features are part of phase two which will be completed by the end of the first quarter (hopefully a lot sooner). Making a custom theme for the site is phase three and should be done in the second quarter of the year.

Can't Wait For Phase Two?

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