Here’s an update on the things I planed on doing in the last post.
Done:
The Site/Forum/Gallery: Single Login
The Gallery: User Submissions
To Do:
The Forum: Porting the Theme
Haven’t started this yet. SMF’s theme isn’t hugely overcomplicated, mostly I’ll just have to get a sence of the geography of the code.
The Gallery: Porting the Theme
Not really going to have to now. I can embed the gallery into the site itself so all I have to do now is change the colours, mostly black and white. So that’s as good as done.
Not Going to be Done:
The Gallery: Upload Alerts to Monitor
Unfortunately there is no way of doing this. Whoever ahs the job is going to have to do it the old fashioned way.
Unless I hear a good reason not to I plan on going ahead with the idea of giving people their logins when and only when they join.
The plan is your username will be your Membership Number and the password will be randomly generated. (You can then choose a nickname to show up for you so that when you post you’re not just 027 or 052 etc. and you can of course change your password) This means that we can remove all accounts (except admins/committee) at the end of the year and start fresh again the following year with the same system.
Also it will make things easier on the committee as these accounts will be manually set-up. A risky, but pratical, idea would be to have the accounts already created, the person behind the table at Freshers’ Week would then give them the password for their number. The risk being in having a list with all accounts’ passwords on it. But if there is only one and it is kept safe with whoever is behind the table (never on it) and is locked-up afterwards, there really shouldn’t be a problem.
Another bonus to this is it will encourage people to go on the website.