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Re: Nifty Features

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Originally Posted by Pavan
For those of you who havent seen their team website is here. http://www.blarglefish.com/

I like your site actually. It is very simplistic and it is very well planned and organized. I think that your layout is very simple and should be easy for other teams to manipulate and edit. Did you use CSS or HTML to build your site?

Also, if you are letting the community have your code are you going to publish a white page? And/or will you consider posting screenshots of your USER/MOD/ADMIN CP?

I worked on our site except it has to get approved by our district and that can take a while, so the website is out of date, but the format will probiably be similar. If you are interested check out http://robonauts.org/

Pavan Dave
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When I get the code in a format that people can just download directly I'd release instructions with the code and it will be fully documented. Right now, a good portion of the code (Java code that runs on the server at least) is commented and I'm going to ask the guy that is in charge of website development this year to complete the commenting so he can learn how the site works a bit more.

We have a CSS for the website to allow for easy changes to the colors and stuff.

Just about every section is split up into its own file so it's pretty easy to find what you want to change.

If anyone wants to take a look at the JSP for the, site just send me an email... tparen1@lsu.edu and give me a general section that you'd like so I can get it fully commented and any possible security (passwords, etc) removed.

I have the pictures up at http://www.blarglefish.com/thomas/admin/.

access.jpg - Where permissions are granted... each person can be customized so they have access to certain things if they need them. System is easily expandable to include other permissions.

calendar.jpg - Delete calendar events by clicking the X, add calendar events

editnews.jpg - Just the news edit page, nothing special

eo1-5.jpg - Screen shots of using a system I named "Easy Object" due to lack of creativity. It basically stores everything in a Java object I made and gets serialized into a MySQL database. I found it to be a nice alternative to running 50 MySQL queries when you want to change 1 thing and a lot safer than giving people access to the database. Runs with AJAX so updating, adding rows, etc doesn't require page refreshes.

gb.jpg - admins get access to delete bad signatures, on a side note, after a few attacks from crawlers advertising e.d. drugs, I wrote a simple, expandable filter to block out certain words.

members1-2.jpg - Members page, as an admin you can move people up and down the page by clicking the +/- characters next to their names. The officer section has a second set of +/- to organize the officer list.

news.jpg - news page, Edit/delete buttons for each post

pics.jpg - combined screenshot of add/delete galleries, delete requires confirmation, when adding the script automatically sorts the images so the wider images appear before the taller images so it is somewhat sorted.

postcal.jpg - posts a calendar event

quotes.jpg - admin can delete quotes

usercp.jpg - simple user control panel, update password, change email address.


Astro, I haven't really thought much about live thumbnails but maybe...