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Report for Meeting December 2007
Our usual crowd arrived and we continued to work on the Meadowbank West Ryde Progress Association site.
The site now looks good and we tried to upload it to the server. We were able to log on to the server and delete most of the existing site. But there is a problem accessing the directory with both FTP Commander and NOF. I will probably have to contact the previous web master to sort out the problem.
Next meeting is 19th January 2008
See you there.
Robert
Meeting 17 November 2007
We looked for a new version of AVG antivirus and mentioned www.filehippo.com where all sorts of freeware programs can be found.
We then tried to log on to the MWRPA site host server, without any success. Will need to get contact details.
Next we looked at many new site styles for the MWRPA site. We chose to use ‘Virtual City’. This made a much improved site. We modified the front page and created the meetings page.
Next month we will continue to build the site by importing data from the news letter.
The next meeting will be on Saturday December 15 - 2pm see you there.
Robert
Report for meeting October 20, 2007
We installed NetObjects Fusion 9 then cleaned up a lot of old files from our hard drives.
We used Photoshop to update our latest member photos and upgraded our site front page.
From now we are going to use Fusion Version 9 as our standard program.
At our November meeting we will do more work on the Meadowbank West Ryde Progress Association site which has alreaded been upgraded to ver 9.
The November meeting is on Saturday the 17 November.
See you there.
Robert
Report for September 15 Meeting 2007
We had a good roll-up this month with one new member attending.
We discussed getting everybody a copy of NetObjects Fusion 9, which came out in PC Authority September issue.
We then began to build a new site in Fusion 8 for the Meadowbank West Ryde Progress Association. We used a a style called Crossback - Orange Blue. We edited the style to make the text larger and more readable
The home page is nearly complete.
Next month we will continue to build this site. Look forward to seeing everybody next month.
Saturday 20 October at 2 pm
Robert.
Report Sig meeting 18-8-07
We had a bad start to this months meeting. We found that our meeting room had been booked by others! After standing around for some time John arranged for us to get a room (the boardroom) on the third floor.
We started the meeting by taking some new photos of our group to update our website.
We discussed the templates for Fusion 8. We created a blank page on the site from an existing page - The command is export as template (see file menu). This can be imported whenever we need a new page.
We then discussed forms. The CGI scripting seems to be able to be downloaded from the ISP. The link must be inserted in the ‘settings’ for the form properties pallet.
Next month we will use these skills to make a new site for The Meadowbank West Ryde Progress Association.
The next meeting is Saturday the 15th September see you there.
Robert
Report for July 2007
Christina, Steve and Peter send their apologies for this meeting.
We looked into templates as a left over from last meeting. After some experiments (a bit risky we lost one of our reports. Fortunately I was able to recover it.) we decided that it needs more research.
We will be waiting your return Peter!!
For the next meeting we will look further into this.
The next meeting is Saturday August 18. I will be taking a couple of photos to update our image!! So we need everybody there.
See you (the lot).
Robert
Report for meeting June 16, 2007
As Robert has taken his password on holidays we didnīt continue with the forms.
We created an archive reports page and tried to get a template page set up. For some unknown reason this failed in a peculiar way - referencing an unknown file beyond its end. But it should be possible, as Steve got it to work on his machine. Googling this error we found it is fixed in "update 2 for NOF8", so we downloaded updates 1 to 4 and installed them. This cured the problem.
Bob showed us how to validate HTML syntax using the http://validator.w3.org site. He also showed us some of the requirements of XHTML which is set to replace HTML for web pages.
Peter
Report for meeting May 19.
We had a good attendance this meeting.
We looked further into forms and form handling. We created a form using NetObjects Fusion’s form tools. The form looks good but we will need to get the OK from Comcen to operate the CGI script.
We then looked at Pacific.net.au forms and we made up a form from their help page, Technical support. This form worked successfully.
We then looked at Jotform.com and tried their system of form creation. We copied the source generated into a NetObjects Fusion text box HTML properties field. This generated a readable form which we need to set up an account with Jotform to test it.
This is very interesting stuff. Will look into it further when I get back from holidays for our July meeting.
Our next meeting is on June 16. Tony and Peter will jointly run this meeting.
All for now
Regards
Robert
Meeting 21 April 2007
We had a good roll up Steve South and Christina sent their apologies.
Bob showed us the latest version of Opera.
We looked at the Meadowbank West Ryde Progress Association site with a view to reworking it.
We noticed forms in the comments page and decided to see how they work. We spent some time checking out CGI scripting. We checked out Comcen and found code available for us to paste into our document. We are now trying to figure out how to successfully paste it in. Very interesting!
For our next months meeting we will continue with our forms handling code.
Meeting is the 19th May, at 2 pm. See you there
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