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Here's a list of to-do things for the FC.o Webteam. If you don't like my naming convention in making this page, well, one of the points below is to establish style guidelines for the wiki. So there.
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Here's a list of tasks for the [[Web Team]]. If you don't like my naming convention in making this page, well, one of the points below is to establish style guidelines for the wiki. So there.
  
 
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Please add stuff below.
  
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[[Web Team Members]]:- please move things to your own to do lists. Do this before you work on a task.
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Web Team members: please move things to your own to-do lists prior to working on a task.
  
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==Version Control==
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* Install CVS / Subversion.
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==Overall==
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** [[User:Pug | J.C.]]: [http://durak.org/cvswebsites/howto-cvs/node2.html Install CVS] and ''enforce the use of CVS for all website changes''. The intention here is to make sure that we never lose data, and add accountability for website updates. I think the site is just large enough to benefit significantly by this approach. Using a version control system for the web pages adds overhead to designers, but there's no more worry about clobbering a whole host of work on accident through a erroneous install and having to manually restore the site, or simple human error with breaking a script.
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* '''IMPORTANT SUGGESTION:''' Ask DownhillBattle to [http://durak.org/cvswebsites/howto-cvs/node2.html install CVS] and ''enforce the use of CVS for all website changes''. The intention here is to make sure that we never lose data, and add accountability for website updates. I think the site is just large enough to benefit significantly by this approach. Using a version control system for the web pages adds overhead to designers, but there's no more worry about clobbering a whole host of work on accident through a erroneous install and having to manually restore the site, or simple human error with breaking a script.
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** [[User:Hashc0de | Abhay]]: Subversion. My version system of choice.
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* ANOTHER CHOICE: Subversion. my version system of choice -- Abhay
 
  
 
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* Should we remove the sample flier that appears on some pages on the lefthand side, and links to [http://www.freeculture.org/chapters/ the "Guide"]? Eventually, this should be replaced with our [[Activist Packet]], but until that's done, I think we ought to hide this. Maybe that will be extra motiviation to finish the activist packet. -- [[User:Gavinbaker|Gavin]] 02:37, 7 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
* Should we remove the sample flier that appears on some pages on the lefthand side, and links to [http://www.freeculture.org/chapters/ the "Guide"]? Eventually, this should be replaced with our [[Activist Packet]], but until that's done, I think we ought to hide this. Maybe that will be extra motiviation to finish the activist packet. -- [[User:Gavinbaker|Gavin]] 02:37, 7 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
** Being swapped out with NYU flyer -- [[User:Gavinbaker|Gavin]] 17:50, 17 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
** Being swapped out with NYU flyer -- [[User:Gavinbaker|Gavin]] 17:50, 17 Feb 2005 (EST)
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* Install [http://alex.halavais.net/projects/nofollow rel=nofollow] fix on blog, if not yet nstalled
 
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** Looks like the plugin has been installed, and it seems to work. -- [[User:Skyfaller|Nelson]] 02:24, 2 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
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* Tone down SpamKarma on blog
 
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** I think this one has been done, we just set it to be "Very Lenient", and that seems to generate a manageable level of comment spam which I can delete, without any false positives so far. -- [[User:Skyfaller|Nelson]] 02:24, 2 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
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*** Last week I got a complaint about false positives; see [http://wantingseed.com/weblog/2005/01/26/icarus.php this]. Unless it's been fixed since then. -- [[User:Gavinbaker|Gavin]] 17:02, 2 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
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**** Yes, changes have been made since then.  If we get any more false positives, let the web team know. -- [[User:Skyfaller|Nelson]] 11:54, 6 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
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***** Can we put a note on WP so that, if someone falls victim to a false positive, they can contact the Webteam and we can consider re-adjusting again? -- [[User:Gavinbaker|Gavin]] 02:19, 7 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
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* Find some better way to archive blog posts
 
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** This seems to have been fixed... J.C. found the option that lets us choose how many posts to display on the "Blog" page, and now there's a nice monthly archive on the right hand sidebar. -- [[User:Skyfaller|Nelson]] 02:24, 2 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
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** Use *snip* after X length or allow author to set snip length?
 
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*** This can be done using the "more" tag, which is a button that you can click on in the "post" or "edit" pane. -- [[User:Skyfaller|Nelson]] 02:24, 2 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
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**** Should we incorporate this into the "Best practices for blogging," especially with long / picture-heavy posts? -- [[User:Gavinbaker|Gavin]] 17:02, 2 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
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***** Yes --[[User:Pug|Pug]] 08:01, 4 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
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* Make a favicon.ico of the lego logo and install it on all FC.o sites
 
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** Done -- [[User:Pug|Pug]] 00:46, 6 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
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* There's a line in the site's CSS which doesn't validate
 
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** I don't see it -- [[User:Pug|Pug]] 00:46, 6 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
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*** Eric says he fixed it -- [[User:Gavinbaker|Gavin]] 02:42, 7 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
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* Update sidebar templates to reflect who we currently are, what we're working on, etc.
 
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** Done, for now -- [[User:Gavinbaker|Gavin]] 02:27, 7 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
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* Prominent links to subscribe to [http://mail.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/announce_freeculture.org Announce], [http://mail.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_freeculture.org Discuss]
 
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** Done -- [[User:Pug|Pug]] 00:46, 6 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
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* Establish best practices for blogging
 
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** Done: [[How to:blog]] -- [[User:Gavinbaker|Gavin]] 18:15, 16 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
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* Make an RSS feed for the aggregator
 
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** I'll do this probably on Sunday --[[User:Pug|Pug]] 11:33, 2 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
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*** Done, but it's RSS 1.0. Then again we don't need any RSS 2.0 features. -- [[User:Pug|Pug]] 11:51, 6 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
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**** Is there a way we can include the school's name in the RSS feed title? There's no way to tell what post is from where. Also, Eric had mentioned some problems with different encodings on the blogs. This seems to spill over a bit into the aggregator -- some quotation marks render as the ASCII code. -- [[User:Gavinbaker|Gavin]] 02:40, 7 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
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***** It's not in the title because it's in the proper field, "Author." If your favorite RSS reader doesn't show that field, complain to the author. ;) If you *really* want it in the title, then fine, we can do that too, but it seems redundant to me. -- [[User:Pug|Pug]] 14:27, 7 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
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* Update [http://www.freeculture.org/chapters/chapters.php Chapters]
 
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** What info are we updating this with? How will we go about collecting it? Who will do that? Should we only include established/registered groups, or groups in the process of formation as well? -- [[User:Gavinbaker|Gavin]] 02:37, 7 Feb 2005 (EST)
 
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* Update [http://www.freeculture.org/contact.php Contact Us]
 
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* Add a link to "Email the Webmaster" that emails webmaster@fc.o
 

Revision as of 20:01, 6 November 2005

Here's a list of tasks for the Web Team. If you don't like my naming convention in making this page, well, one of the points below is to establish style guidelines for the wiki. So there.

Please add stuff below.

Web Team members: please move things to your own to-do lists prior to working on a task.

Version Control

  • Install CVS / Subversion.
    • J.C.: Install CVS and enforce the use of CVS for all website changes. The intention here is to make sure that we never lose data, and add accountability for website updates. I think the site is just large enough to benefit significantly by this approach. Using a version control system for the web pages adds overhead to designers, but there's no more worry about clobbering a whole host of work on accident through a erroneous install and having to manually restore the site, or simple human error with breaking a script.
    • Abhay: Subversion. My version system of choice.

Wiki

  • Tag wiki CC by 2.0
  • Re-enable upload on wiki
    • Allow uploads of all FC.o-recommended filetypes
  • Change the RSS feed on the Recent changes page on the wiki so it displays a smaller number of changes -- say, 10-20 -- and includes date, user who made the change, possibly time
  • Establish wiki syle guidelines
    • Are we recommending against h1? Should we go through the wiki and change all h1 to h2? -- Gavin 14:06, 3 Feb 2005 (EST)
      • You don't have to go through the wiki and change all the old pages unless you really want to, but yes, use of h1 is discouraged. -- Nelson 16:08, 7 Feb 2005 (EST)
  • Un-ghettoize wiki
  • Reverse Meetings index chronology for ease-of-use?

Comment Submission

Additions

  • Press section
  • Bios for FC.o leaders
  • Mission statement (when written)

Blog

  • Help chapters set up and use blogs
    • What can we do to help people? I've just been suggesting that people create an LJ community for their club. LJ does comments, an RSS feed, and trackback is on its way (now that they've been bought out by Six Apart). Blogger doesn't do RSS feeds period, just Atom, and that's not enabled by default. So I dis-recommend it. Some kind of Wordpress installation is really ideal, so that you have control. -- Nelson 11:54, 6 Feb 2005 (EST)
      • LJ is a good quickfix, but a WP install is better in the long run. For chapters that don't want to manage a WP install yet, we should push LJ heavily. Do you think we could pester LJ to implement trackback? Some sort of "category" tags would be very useful too. -- Gavin 02:30, 7 Feb 2005 (EST)

E-commerce

  • Accept donations
    • PayPal & credit card via PayPal
    • Checks mailed to P.O. Box
    • Others: Amazon Honor System? Fundable? NetworkForGood? Referral / shopping programs?
  • Sell merch
    • Does not yet exist, except for frisbees at Downhill Battle

Site templates

  • Do we want to keep a fixed-size layout? Can we not use a more flexible design?
  • Add a link under the XHTML/CSS/etc. buttons on the right-hand sidebar which says "Add this site's RSS feed" which links to a page that explains, briefly, what RSS is and how to use it, including info about LiveBookmarks in Mozilla
    • for n00bs
  • Should we remove the sample flier that appears on some pages on the lefthand side, and links to the "Guide"? Eventually, this should be replaced with our Activist Packet, but until that's done, I think we ought to hide this. Maybe that will be extra motiviation to finish the activist packet. -- Gavin 02:37, 7 Feb 2005 (EST)
    • Being swapped out with NYU flyer -- Gavin 17:50, 17 Feb 2005 (EST)
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