Twin City FM Club - Website

TCFMC.org User's Guide - Sidebar Blocks

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:04:30 -0600

As I'm sure you've noticed, this website has a 3-column layout. The main content sits in the center and two sidebars contain site features and current events. In this post, I'll give a brief explanation of the functions of each sidebar block.

Starting at the top of the left sidebar, you'll see the Login/Register block. This allows you to log into the site, register for a new account or mail yourself a new password (if you've lost your old one). Once you log in, this will be replaced by a User Points block, which tells you how many points you've accrued toward the current contest.

Server Hardware: When it rains, it pours.

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:23:57 -0500

I'm sure those of you who were at the last club meeting remember me talking about how the power supply in the webserver decided to assassinate the other components. Well, the rebuilt server just had the network interface that's built-in to the motherboard fail. Now there's a PCI network card in the system doing the same job, so we're back in business.

Thanks & 73,
- Peter, KC0TFB

Server hardware failure: we're back!

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:17:47 -0500

Sorry for the long outage, folks. The server took a hit to the power supply, and several other components failed shortly thereafter when the +5 rail went up to +19. A new machine has been built and the site's back. Thanks so much for your patience.

73,
- Peter KC0TFB, webmaster.

New Feature: email forwarding!

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:55:06 -0500

Now you can have yourcall@tcfmc.org email forwarded to your own email address!

Once you are logged in, click My Account, click the Edit tab, then the Details sub-tab. Make sure you enter your correct callsign and then click the "Forward email" checkbox. After you click submit, you'll be registered for mail forwarding.

Once you turn this on, email sent to yourcall@tcfmc.org will be forwarded to the email address you currently have assigned to your tcfmc.org account. To change where the email is forwarded, just change the email address for your account.

A seperate process on the mail server checks the user database every 10 minutes for changes. To turn this feature off, just re-visit the page and uncheck the checkbox, then click Submit.

- Peter KC0TFB

SWAP List

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:02:56 -0600

Peter, How about writing a swaplist kind of thing in PHP and MySql? We could list items here with contacts, etc. I have written one because I was too lazy to maintain one by hand in Colorado......
what do you think?
73 Mike

Calendar on the main page

Sun, 19 Mar 2006 19:25:26 -0600

When you go from month to month on the calendar... pushing the '<<' or '>>' it turns the calendar into a full page instead of staying in that neat little frame.... something for you to investigate, peter

73
Mike

New content type: date (deadline/anniversary)

Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:50:56 -0600

To distinguish between real-world events (Ask yourself, can I drive/walk/fly/bicycle there?) and deadlines, anniversaries, holidays, etc, we now have two types of content. Both types will appear on the calendar and the list of upcoming events on the website, but there are a few important differences:

Odd observation...

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:51:37 -0600

Just noticed that prior to my posting this note, The Forum's page, listed the Website forum as having two topics, one message each (or two messages.)

What is odd about that is that when I selected the forum I was seeing only the 'Contest: Help Build This Website!' topic, with no replies.

My suspicion is that there was a message or topic that was deleted, but the counters never got reset.

Contest: Help Build This Website!

Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:14:48 -0600

I've added a new points system to this website. The person with the most points by midnight May 1st gets a $10 gift certificate to Radio City To see current standings, click Points Ranking (as shown in the header, above). For more information on how to earn points, see Earn Points.