LCDEV

Would you believe it? Progress is being made with the design of this site. Slowly, but surely. You'll notice that a lot has changed with this site. Overall the design is new, but the site navigation is still quite similar. The development team hope to make London Commons ever more user friendly. So, everything from site navigation to features will continue to evolve as the development team work at refining the new design, building new layouts and reconfiguring the site's functionality.

Any comments are always appreciated.  read more »

There are some new cool privacy settings that pertain to user profiles.

Users can now set whether they want a certain bit of information contained in the profile to show publically or to only users in their "crew".

Here's how to adjust these settings (and also input information into your user profile):  read more »

Rating System Brainstorm

Starting this blog as a way to focus ideas on the current user comment rating system. A recent thread regarding an emotionally involved discussion has pointed out some difficulties with the new "karma" system. A few of the sites users have inputted their frustration with the system as it stands.  read more »

Sidebars: both on the right side.  The right-most sidebar will always be visible, and be used for blocks that we always want to display.  The inner sidebar will be for specialized blocks, ones that are only displayed in special cases.  The inner sidebar should not be displayed at all if none of its blocks are to be displayed on a particular page.

Only the outer sidebar should be visible for the front page.

Some of these blocks would have to be created with views.  One or two might not be possible with current versions of modules.  read more »

A few new features introduced to the site tonight.

• Cancel your own account
• Moderate comments in your own blog
• Trackbacks
• reCAPTCHA

We also added a log in link where the log out link is like Alex suggested. Mike McGregor also did some work on the About LondonCommons.net book page.  read more »

So we had a work session to solve some problems that have been discovered since the last batch of upgrades a week ago. Just a quick bit of whats been done:  read more »