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Terry
Oct 252011
May 272011
- The Event
- Welcome to Scomis
May 272011
WordPress has a fantastic range of plugins that extend the WordPress into a truly wonderful system.
For Example;
Page One
This is the first Tab
This is the first Tab
Page Two
This is the second Tab
This is the second Tab
Feb 102011
Implement Revisionary to enable content to be reviewed or set a date when an item needs to be updated. Also allows an Owner to take responsibility for the item.
Jun 032010
WordPress is a very powerful Website tool, however out of the box it only exports a single RSS feed. This is useful for most websites, however for our F.A.Q. site it might be useful for schools to subscribe to a single section of the site rather than receiving a feed containing everything.
Home Page (7)- Meetings (1)
- Portal Sites (5)
- Uncategorized (7)
- User Group (1)
The Category Specific plugin extends the default WordPress RSS generator and allows custom RSS feeds based upon the category that the post/article has been posted in.
Is this something that we should add to the F.A.Q. website?
UPDATE:
It appears that WordPress natively supports Category Specific RSS feeds. Browse to the Category, then copy the URL. At the end of the URL, add a slash and the word Feed.
e.g.
http://faq.scomis.org/categories/services/remote-backup/
becomes
http://faq.scomis.org/categories/services/remote-backup/feed/
This will produce an RSS feed that is specific to the category.
APPROVED
Some times the F.A.Q. entries can be quite long winded and contain several different methods to resolve a problem. This can make the F.A.Q. difficult to and overwhelming to read.
To address this issue, we can introduce expanding text, where a small headline would be displayed that can be clicked. Once clicked, text behind the headline will be revealed.
Example
| How to find out your IP Address Click Start Click Run Type CMD Click OK Type IPCONFIG Press Enter |
Click Start Click Run Type CMD Click OK Type IPCONFIG Press Enter |
Do you think this sort of thing would be useful? Your comments please.
During our use of our portal sites we have discovered that printing useful things out, like the information contained in the F.A.Q. portal doesn’t print on the page correctly.
The result is that the menu that is usually displayed on the page is also printed. Taking up space on the printed page and condensing the content.
A Print Preview showing what the page looks like with the menu showing.
We have discovered that other websites sites have the ability to hide menus and navigation when printing. We have now modified the F.A.Q. site so that menus are now hidden. This is will be a temporary fix whilst we work on revised templates for our portal sites.
Print Preview sample with no navigation menu.
Apr 262010
When the F.A.Q. site was being developed we wanted to show users which posts were the most popular, the thought behind this was that people would get to most used content quicker by seeing the content that was being viewed.
Is this feature useful? Can it be improved?
Daily Popular List from the ScoMIS F.A.Q.
Apr 192010
The original template design for the Portal sites was based upon the main DCC website. But we found it to be a fairly complicated task to copy the template exactly, so we improved upon it in some areas, but other areas were just done for speed.
One of the areas that I would like comments on, is the side bar navigation, particularly in the F.A.Q. and Training Directory portal sites. I think that the multi-level nagivation takes up quite a bit of the page and would like to try and reduce it’s foot print.
Default Full Navigation on the F.A.Q. Site
Expandable Menu on the F.A.Q. Site
What do you think?
Apr 132010
The Count down has now officially started on the ScoMIS Website Launch. The ScoMIS website can now be accessed on http://www.devon.gov.uk/scomis.
The old ScoMIS website will continue to exist and will display a message on the home page from Monday 19th April telling users that the site has moved. The site will display a static news message rather than the dynamic news that users would normally see.
Eventually the old ScoMIS website will be phased out, and parts of the site will be re-directed until the server is fully de-commissioned by County Hall later in 2010. Until then, the old website will no longer be updated.
ScoMIS are committed to improving and continually developing services and content on our new site.