Changes

June - July 2011

Added a counter that displays the number of current viewers per school and for the entire nerwork.

Changed the internal engine that handles all the tales and pages.

Staff memebers with web pages can now have their own calendars. They can also enter their office hours and set create a link to their external page.

May 2011

I added mobile pages

January to April 2011

I concentrated on cleaning up the software code that generated the various pages.

November 8 2010 - Notices
You can select an icon that will appear before the notice title.

November 3 2010 - Deleting PDF Documents
You can now delete PDF documents that you have uploaded. When you login you can click on the Dashboard link. Once you are at the Dashboard you scroll down until you get to the documents section. You can delete documents from here. You will be asked to confirm the deletion. You can also view the document.

October 25 2010 - NEW Cycle Days
You can now manage the school's cycle days. They will the appear on the large calendar.

October 22 2010 - NEW Managing Links
You can now add/edit links easily without using html.

October 15 2010 - PDF Uploads
When you upload a PDF file you can noiw select the page(s) and which a notice that links to the PDF file will appear.

October 7 2010 - Page Photos
You can upload up to 18 photos per page. These photos will be displayed below the custom page (if there is one. See September 2010).

October 1 2010 - Notices
You can select the width of your notices. You can select to display a notice in Full width, Half width or Third width, See the example below:

Notices will be displayed in this order:
Full width first, then Half width and finally Third width.
In all cases emergency notices will have a red background and important notices a yellow background. 

Below is an example of the new option.

September 28 2010 - Marquee & PDF Uploads
You can select to display a link to an uploaded PDF file as a Marquee instead on a notice.

September 27 2010 - Marquee & Notices
You can new specify that a notice title should be displayed as a marquee.

September 15 2010 - Personal Web Pages
I made it easier to manage personal web pages.

September 10 2010 - Personal Web Pages
I added an option that allows you to indicate if a page is active (visible) in the list of pages.

September 8 2010 - Personal Web Pages
You can now add a French title that will appear when viewers are using the French section.

September 7 2010 - Personal Web Pages
Users can now change the title of the home page on the list of their pages. Also a change in any of their personal pages will change the page link display if the change was less than 31 day ago.

September 6 2010 - Custom Web Page Editing
You can now edit some of the standard web pages by adding a custom web page that will appear below the standard content (Notices and Doccuments).

September 4 2010 - Editing Your Web Page
I changed the mechanism for editing web pages- it should be much easier now to change the web page you want to edit

August 29 - Events
I added the ability to edit events.

August 22 - IE 9 Preview
I have made sure the pages look better in Microsoft Internet Explorer 9. Here is a screen capture using IE9- notice rounded corners:
Here is a view of the same page using IE8 - notice the square corners.

August 22 - IE 6 Test added
I added a test for Internet Explorer 6- if IE6 is detected (this test is not always reliable) the older version of the web site using tables is displayed.

August 21 - Page fetch method changed
I change the way that pages are displayed - AJAX is not used a much, command line parameters are used instead. This means that back and forward buttons now work as expected. It also produces faster page loads. This change was only made to elementary school sites.

August 18, 2010 - Notices on Specific Weekdays
I added an option on the Notices form which allows you to specify a day of week on which a notice will appear. This will display the notice on the selected pages on that weekday for the Duration of the notice. The default is All Days (i.e. every day)

In the example below- the notice will be displayed on the Home page every Monday between August 18 and September 17th.

At present you only select All Days or a Specific day.

If you want to display the same notice on Tuesdays and Thursdays, you will have to create 2 notices.

August 18, 2010 - English and French Pages
The calendars have also been translated.

August 16, 17 2010 - English and French Pages
Finished translation of menus and page titles for the school web sites.

August 12, 13 2010 - French and English Pages
I added the ability to have English and French sections.

Click here for more details

July 2010 - Layout

I converted all pages to use divisions instead of tables. Staff pages have been streamlined. Staff can now select several page layouts.

May 13 - Notices

I have changed what happens when you save a notice. It has happened many times that people made corrections to a notice and then pressed save again- this caused another notice to be added. Now when you save a notice the notice id field will have the id of the saved notice. The Save button will be changed to read Update.

If you want to add another notice, click on Add Notice on the Menu.

April 21, 2010 - Notices

You can delete a document associated with a notice when you delete a notice.

April 20, 2010 - Events

The Event form has been redesigned to make adding an event more intuitive.

April 19, 2010 - Events

You can now add a link to a PDF file. The link will appear at the Event Name.

April 19, 2010 - Upload PDF Files

In addition to being able to add a notice on the home page, you can also select the class of the notice (Normal, Important or Emergency). The class determines the order in which notices are displayed-
Emergency first, then Important and finally Normal.

April 14 - Exams

An Exams section has been added to the Menu (usually under Academics). Notices can be added and Documents (pdf files only) can be uploaded to the Exams page.

April 9 - Upload PDF Files

When you upload a PDF file you now have the option to specify that a Notice linking to the uploaded file will be created. This notice will be created on the Home page if you upload as an administrator, or it will be created on your personal page if you do not have administrative access.

April 8, 2010 - Event Calendar

You can set the order in which multiple events on a specific date will appear. If there is no image for the event tip, a resized image of the picture (if there is one) will be used.

April 7, 2010 - Event Calendar

You can now view the Calendar Images (small icons) and Pictures (large re sizable images) using the Applications

April 5, 2010 - Event Calendar

You can now select more images and pictures for the calendar. You can also select a smaller size for the pictures.

Mar 6, 2010 - Notices & Collage

You now have the option when saving a notice to display the notice collapsed or completely.
You can also select the manner in which it collapses and appears.
There is a button that can be clicked to expand/collapse all the notices at once.
The pictures of the collage now change positions at a specific interval.

Mar 6, 2010 - Photos

Added a small utility on the form that will allow you to determine if a picture is too big to upload.

Mar 5, 2010 - Photos

You can now create photo albums for your personal web page.

Mar 4 - Notices

There is now a section in the SchoolQC menu that will bring up some applications to help you with your notices. One of these will allow you to try various colour combinations for your notices.

Mar 3, 2010 - Banner & Collage Images

There is a small utility on the form that will allow you to determine if a picture is too big to upload.

Mar 2, 2010 - Banner & Collage Images

I combined these 2 sets of images into the same folder. This produces a larger pool of images. This also means that you only have to upload 1 image instead of 2.

A check has been added to make sure that the area (width x height) of the picture does not exceed 800 000; this corresponds to 1024 x 768.

Mar 1, 2010 - Banner & Collage Images

When you upload an image (with a width/height or aspect ratio between 1.1 and 1.5) it will be resized and cropped (if required) to produce a 400 x 300 image. The cropped portion will be taken from the center of the resized image. The image must be at least 400 x 300.

Feb 28, 2010 - Teacher Web Pages

I added a banner of random photos to the top each teacher page and a collage on random photos to the bottom of each teacher page.

Feb 27, 2010 - Notices

You can now view a page with the images and backgrounds you can select for the notices.

Feb 27, 2010 - Picture Uploads

You can only upload photos that are less than 1 Meg in size.

Feb 25, 2010 - Banner/Collage Photos

You can now upload photos to the Banner and Collage pictures on the web page(s). The photos will appear below the upload form as you successfully upload photos.

Feb 22, 2010 - Notices: Save, Edit, Delete Buttons

The Save buttons titles will change to Update if you enter a number in the Notice ID field; in addition the Delete check box will be enabled. If you check the delete box, the Save buttons titles will change to DELETE!

Feb 21, 2010 - Notices: Images

You can now use images that are narrower than 190 pixels in Notices: These images will not be resized. Images larger than 190 pixels will still be resized to a width of 190 pixels.

Feb 18, 2010 - Notices: Images

You can now add up to 10 external images to a notice. These images will display in random order along with any of the pre-defined images that were selected.

You can add a large picture to a notice. This picture can be placed above or below the notice text.

Clicking on the small image in a notice will open the link in the title if there is one.

Feb 16, 2010 - Notices: Editing

You can now edit an existing notice.

Feb 14, 2010 - Notices: Background Image

You can add a small background image. You can select the image location from predefined list, or specify an exact location. The image will move to the location you specify as you change it's position.

Added a preview on the notice on the Add Notice form. Added a check list and mini preview to the Add Notice Form.

Feb 11, 2010 - Notices: Colours

You can now select the text and background colour of your Notices:

Feb 10, 2010 - Notices: Adding Images

You can add up to 4 images that will appear beside the text of the notice. If you select more than 1 image, one of your selected images will appear at random. You must enter the exact URL of the image in the Image URL field. The image will be resized to a width of 190 pixels; therefore image should not be smaller than this. You should also select images that are not much wider than 190 pixels- I suggest images between 200 and 600 pixels for the best results. You can also select an image from the list.

If you have graphics that you would like included for this feature please email them to me. They must be at least 200 pixels wide though, and must not refer to a specific school.

Feb 5, 2010 - Honour Rolls:

I have added the possibility for you to upload Honour Rolls as PDF files. You use the same function that is used to upload Newsletters, GB Minutes, etc.

If you want to use this feature just let me know and I'll activate it for your school.

If you want to upload more than 1 Honour Roll, it's important to note that they are displayed in the reverse order in which that are uploaded. The latest one is displayed first. So if you wish to upload more than 1, the earliest one should be uploaded first.

Feb 3, 2010 - GPI Calendar:

Added the possibility of importing the GPI calendar into the event calendar so that the cycle days will appear.