Monday, 29 November 2004: In the first of many instalments, Canon Lore is now being updated with the contents of some of the many Fix Me messages.
I've got nearly 400 Fix Me messages in my inbox, and I'm sure you don't want to wait any longer for an update to Canon Lore, so rather than waiting, I'm applying them as I go. Check the Changes | Recent Changes menu for a complete rundown of the changes I've applied; this is generated automatically by the process I use to apply changes.
There are a bunch of other bugs and features I plan to remove and add (respectively - I hope!). Here, as much for my memory as for your edification, is a list:
- Fix the bug that gives some people a random Order of Arachne's Web or notes their royalty as Esmirelda Dancingstar
- Correct misspellings in names of some branches
- List the event names and locations in Royalty | Events, where they're known
- Group awards by local/foreign and open/closed, so you can find what you're looking for
- For heralds: note which events I've received Court Herald Award Forms for
- Add a Search facility in the sidebar
- All dates should include the full event name as a link, if possible
- Create a redirection and move the site to sca.org.au/canon, which is where it's supposed to live
- Branches | All Information should be a map - rotated so West is at the top, of course - with all branches shown
- Record the mundane city name and lattitude/longitude for branches (works with the map, above)
Add a favicon, a small icon that appears in bookmarks/favourites[30 Nov 2004]Create a "link to me" image that people can put on their sites[30 Nov 2004]Break the FAQ into pages[30 Nov 2004]Remove most of the text on the front page to the FAQ pages[30 Nov 2004]Awards | Recently Given should give a much more informative error message![30 Nov 2004]For heralds: add a link to the CHAF[30 Nov 2004]Add "Recommend Someone For An Award" in the sidebar[15 Jan 2005]Some parts of the site are so slow they're almost unusable - speed it all up[15 Jan 2005]Expand the table of letters on the Person and Branch lists so it's easier to use[22 Jan 2005]Include full award descriptions[31 Jul 2005]Enter all royalty into the database, even if they have no awards; this makes it possible to link to them![31 Jul 2005]Arrange to sort names properly: currently Ędward is sorting after Zvonimir![31 Jul 2005]Exclude Landed Baronies from the Awards list, but put the information somewhere else[31 Jul 2005]Add hyperlinks to the royalty and event names in the individual person display[31 Jul 2005]Arrange people's names better in the individual branch listing[31 Jul 2005]