Site Upgrade

Thursday, 15 January 2009 10:35

I have upgraded the site this morning as a prelude to adding certain other functionality and to respond to comments that the old hybrid design site was a little too dense. Read about it in this article.

The new version is the current standard version of the Joomla Content Management System and represents a substantial upgrade from the version the site was established on more than a year ago. It is also the base on which many new functionality extensions can be added and maintained - one of the key reasons to upgrade this foundation before extending the site's functionality.

I have also updated the site design to a standard open source template that is fully compatible with the Content Management System, which in turn will allow simpler design control and evolution in the future. I hope you like the new design.

The upgrade was meant to be quick and painless as I had tested it on a mirror site first. But it was not to be - I still had a lesson to learn. In addition there has been some apparently unrelated database server issues on the host service over the past week. My apologies to those who were inconvenienced.

The new version will make many things easier but any change has its costs. The ones that I know of and are addressing are:

A couple of images in the Frequently Asked Questions item on contributing content need updating
The Google Ads need to be re-enabled
Some miscellaneous items at the bottom of the screen need to be tidied up
Internet Explorer 6 shows the header images without any masking

Please let me know if you detect any other anomalies that need addressing.

Should there be any major issues the old site can still be found for the time being at http://test.nswagtc.org.au - but beware that any new information added to this site is unlikely to be retained.

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