- Editions
- Backdated has now been eliminated. Editions are now either active or inactive. The date MUST BE BEFORE TODAY OR TODAY in order for an active edition to appear.
- An edition can now have more than one PDF associated with it. For the love of all that is good, please keep these under 5 Mb -- preferably 1 Mb. No one has that much time.
- Articles
- You cannot leave the title field blank now. Doing so used to make articles unclickable on the admin screen.
- Appearance
- Lots of changes here. We have separated the appearance and newspaper information screens.
- We have introduced what is known as an AJAX application for the appearance page. This allows you to see the changes in real time. It's really cool.
- We now have five page designs -- up from two before. They are named after the Great Lakes -- HOMES -- Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior. They all look slightly different.
- We have introduced colors to various parts of the screen.
- We have introduced different motifs for you to use.
- We will be adding additional features going forward in this area.
- Public pages
- The weather now appears on the front page of your site. This is based on your ZIP code. You can see what we have for you on the School Information page; let us know if it's wrong. Also, you can turn off the weather (and various other features) on that page.
- Pages now look really different. In addition to the changes outlined above, you have:
- changes to the list view (list or card view)
- changes to the icon sizes (they should now be no deeper than 22 pixels deep)
- Full Story icons appear different (and change color when you hover over them)
- headlines themselves are ALL CAPS now.
- We now allow feeds to be read on the site. If you have RSS feeds (say from this blog or another one outside our site -- remember, we have regulated blogs, too, and they work just like stories -- you can have them available on your site by clicking on Add [RSS feeds that will be prominent on your site] from the dashboard.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Many many changes in store for 2009-10
There have been many changes made to the site since June. We will be releasing a new version of the user guide going forward, but a short overview is:
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Site reports return
Site reports are back. On the bottom right of the dashboard, you will see this...
When you click through, you will now see a variation of this this...
... which is different from the user guide and from what you saw before.
We now let you list:
A unique hit is a hit within a 30-minute timeframe from a particular computer IP address. After 30 minutes, if it visits the same page, it is counted again.
The site report system we were using had millions of records in it, which is what made it slow and unreliable. We have revised it so it stores MUCH less information, but still delivers the relevant statistics. This should make it a lot more reliable.
Thank you for your patience.
When you click through, you will now see a variation of this this...
... which is different from the user guide and from what you saw before.
We now let you list:
- Unique article/blog hits this month
- Unique article/blog hits this year
- Unique article/blog hits since (your site) started
A unique hit is a hit within a 30-minute timeframe from a particular computer IP address. After 30 minutes, if it visits the same page, it is counted again.
The site report system we were using had millions of records in it, which is what made it slow and unreliable. We have revised it so it stores MUCH less information, but still delivers the relevant statistics. This should make it a lot more reliable.
Thank you for your patience.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Video issues resolved?
Starting May 3, our video provider started having issues with timeouts when uploading video. In practical terms, this meant that a lot of videos didn't upload correctly.
We didn't notice this until May 26.
The provider now says it has corrected the issue.
If you have had video issues this month, please try uploading them again and let me know if you continue to have trouble getting them to show up.
We didn't notice this until May 26.
The provider now says it has corrected the issue.
If you have had video issues this month, please try uploading them again and let me know if you continue to have trouble getting them to show up.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Site statistics down
Site statistics are down again so we have removed them from the dashboard for the time being.
What happens is that when you click on the site statistic link it waits 30-35 seconds and then gives you a time-out error.
We are investing time and money into reworking how this whole system works so that it is robust enough to handle your queries and will return it when it is working correctly.
I'll announce it on here when we do
Thank you for your patience.
What happens is that when you click on the site statistic link it waits 30-35 seconds and then gives you a time-out error.
We are investing time and money into reworking how this whole system works so that it is robust enough to handle your queries and will return it when it is working correctly.
I'll announce it on here when we do
Thank you for your patience.
User guide for teachers updated
I have today posted the newest version of the user guide.
It goes over:
Find it here: http://my.hsj.org/my.hsj.org-TeacherGuide.pdf
It goes over:
- Media rank
- Blog posts
- Short URLs and redirects
- Renaming of various links
Find it here: http://my.hsj.org/my.hsj.org-TeacherGuide.pdf
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