Site Live-ish

[bensewell]

Hello,

 

The Royston Site i've been working on is live, just waiting to train users how to use it and update their content then were well on our way.

 

http://www.roystonhigh.org.uk

 

Have a look, comments / recomendations would be appreciated. It's not ready for the "finished" stage, but its getting there.

 

Cheers, Ben

[Guest]

Top marks bensewell. Looking good for content. Glad the package has been of use to you.

[FN-GM]

The package is fantastic SYSMAN deserves an Xmas present this year from edugeek.

[sqdge]

Looks good - the only thing is that the search field looks a bit lonely. But since I can't think of anywhere better to put it, you shoudl probably keep it where it is.

 

I wish I could have got a site like that up and running, but since I leave tomorrow...!

[triggmiester]

Well done looks great, the only thing I will say is that on the links down the left hand side on the pupils page you have spelt governors wrong, not want you want to see on a school site, otherwise topmarks

[bensewell]

OK Cheers for comments. I'll keep tinkering.

 

Thanks for all your help with the site and info.

 

I'll sort out a full audit of the site as and when i can.

 

The only little thing that i really want to get working is the slideshow thingy but for some reason it doesnt like IIS and bombs out with some PHP line 94 message.

 

I'll put something in later on but for now it does it job.

 

It's going to be staff training soon so i'll probably get "can it do this" questions.

[kearton]

The only little thing that i really want to get working is the slideshow thingy but for some reason it doesnt like IIS and bombs out with some PHP line 94 message.

Is that the same sort of error as I mention in this post?

http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=8308&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=214

Because of it I *still* haven't updated our school site

[bensewell]

Its something like that.

 

Nevermind i think i'm going to get round it by using something called flash rotator:

 

It seems to Work OK so far, i'll need to tinker and then install onto my user 6 area then hopefully get round it.

 

http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,437/Itemid,35/

 

It looks good just need to test it a bit before setting it to "live".

[bensewell]

The problem might be that the server is windows 2003 or something? I've spend enough time tinkering and now can't be arsed so i'm going for something else instead.

[Guest]

If you want a simple image rotator for the front page rather than the one in the package then you could look at Simple Image Rotator from Joomla Works

 

It doesnt have the popups, but just reads a folder of images. I have used it on another site I am about to make live.

[bensewell]

Is it a freebie? I'm a tight so and so... I'm sure i've tried messing with this in the past, but i'll give it another whirl before i commit to the flash rotator.#

 

Cheers sysman.

[Guest]

Yep its free. Here is the link

[Gatt]

looks great!

Who manages the content of the site and how do they find the interface?

 

Just curious after SLT here complained it was "too complex" and dutifuly tore the site down and replaced it with.. with... well something..

[Dos_Box]

looks great!

Who manages the content of the site and how do they find the interface?

 

Just curious after SLT here complained it was "too complex" and dutifuly tore the site down and replaced it with.. with... well something..

 

http://www.moorsidehigh.com/

 

Urgh!!! That is awful!! Where's your .AC.UK or .SCH adress?

[Gatt]

just don't go there DB - our sch.uk addy is http://moorsidehigh.salford.sch.uk but gets forwarded to the .com

WhY? Dunno - but the host is pretty cr*p - no PHPMyAdmin (some inhouse thing that only lets u delete 1 table at a time!!)

 

I've given up on everything to do with that website...

[webman]

What's wrong with moorsidehigh.com (no www needed)? It's a damn sight shorter (written and spoken) than http://www.schoolname.county.sch.uk (www required).

[Gatt]

Dnt have a problem with the Domain Name - just the webhosts (ace-webhosting.com)

[bensewell]

Righty oh.

 

We manage the server its in our school so we have total control of the hosting. The LEA have put in a rule on their ISA server that translates all web traffic trying to access our site and forwards it to our server.

 

The server has both Joomla (website) and Moodle installed and they both work together fine. So the only hard work we had to do was register an external IP to our server and then get the LEA to put a hole in the firewall and divert traffic to the site.

 

The teachers update their own content as and when they want to. I'm doing some training on it in a few weeks so more content should follow. Every teacher gets a username and password and a simple "Word" like editor to use so its easy.

 

Hard things like podcasting and other tricky bits are left up to me and the ICT staff who have admin accounts to access the backend of the system.

[bensewell]

Nearly there now. The modules work fine in user positions 5, 3 and so on, but i want it in user module 6.

 

http://moodle1:3636/index.php?tp=1

 

When i put it to module user6 it doesnt display, all others are fine?

 

Any ideas???

 

The CSS for user 6 i have is:

 

#user6{

width: 660px;

float: left;

text-align: left;

}

 

Tar

[bensewell]

Err, wrong web address (thats our server name):

http://www.roystonhigh.org.uk/index.php?tp=1

 

Doh!

[bensewell]

http://www.roystonhigh.org.uk/index.php?tp=1

 

Try again!, Me and keyboards are not getting on today.

[Guest]

Have you anything published in the top module?

[bensewell]

No,

 

I used to have the Urgent news, but its not published now.

 

I could ammend the top CSS to trick it into position but the User6 would be the ideal, just below the header graphic but above the content.

[Guest]

You will find that if you publish your newsflash module to the top position it will appear. Don't ask why..

[bensewell]

Certainly does! I'll make the slideshow a bit wider in the CSS user6 then it should drop the newsflash (top) below the slideshow... What a good end to a week!