Calendar of Events

Thought you would all like to know the following:

Within the Forums on IndexWa.org, we have installed a Calendar of Events.

Keep in mind that a REGISTERED USER is one whom has made at least one post in our forums. NEWLY REGISTERED USERS are CONFIRMED USERS and have made no posts. DONORS do not need to make a post to access everything available to you on the Calendar.

Here is what you can do with the Calendar of Events:

* Includes both All Day and Timed Events

* Event View – filled with all event details (who’s invited, who created the event, start and end times, edit & delete buttons if applicable etc).

* Month View – can jump to any month via next and prev links, or jump randomly via pulldown menus. Lists birthdays, event types and event names only. Click on the day’s number to add a new event on that day

*Week View – can jump to any week via next and prev links, or jump randomly via pulldown menus. Lists birthdays, event types, names, and times. Click on the day’s number to add a new event on that day.

* Day View – can jump to any day via next and prev links, or jump randomly via pulldown menus. Includes a Graphical display of events on a timeline – lets you quickly see schedule conflicts etc. Lists birthdays, event types, names, and times. Click on the day’s number to add a new event on that day.

* Support for BBCode and Smilies

* Personal Events – the ability to create personal events

* Group Events

* Public Events

* Make events bold if you are event creator – Let’s you quickly see events most important to you.

* List of Upcoming Events

* Recurring events – events will be occurrence able with 12 different options:

#1) A: Day [X] of [Month Name] every [Y] Year(s)
#2) A: [Xth] [Weekday Name] of [Month Name] every [Y] Year(s)
#3) A: [Xth] [Weekday Name] of full weeks in [Month Name] every [Y] Year(s)
#4) A: [Xth from last] [Weekday Name] of [Month Name] every [Y] Year(s)
#5) A: [Xth from last] [Weekday Name] of full weeks in [Month Name] every [Y] Year(s)
#6) M: Day [X] of month every [Y] Month(s)
#7) M: [Xth] [Weekday Name] of month every [Y] Month(s)
#8) M: [Xth] [Weekday Name] of full weeks in month every [Y] Month(s)
#9) M: [Xth from last] [Weekday Name] of month every [Y] Month(s)
#10) M: [Xth from last] [Weekday Name] of full weeks in month every [Y] Month(s)
#11) W: [Weekday Name] every [Y] Week(s)
#12) D: Every [Y] Day(s)

Who can do what in events:

Can create events with outside guests allowed: NEWLY REG. USERS / REG USERS / DONORS

Can create group events: DONORS ONLY

Can create private events: REG USERS & DONORS

Can create public events: NEWLY REG. USERS / REG USERS / DONORS

Can create recurring events: DONORS

Can delete events: DONORS

Can edit events: DONORS

Can create events with attendance tracking: DONORS

Can view the detailed rsvps for events created by other users: NOBODY UNLESS IT’S YOUR EVENT

Can view events: SET BY PERSON CREATING EVENT

Can view the headcount for events created by other users: NOBODY UNLESS IT’S YOUR EVENT

I am sure something was left out but this is the jest of it.

Hope you enjoy the calendar.

Forum Integration

Today we took a small step and integrated our Blog with our Forum. Everything that posts to the Blog will now also post to the Forum.

Hopefully (if I am “gutsy” enough), we will try to do the same thing in reverse, so folks on the Blog who do not desire to be a part of the Forum, (I don’t know why though…it’s really a good tool), will be able to see in the Blog what happens in the Forum.

That’s about it on our trial and error tools. Now, we just need to remember to back things up all the time before doing something foolish.

Well, most of our backups are automated via a script but some are not.

Thanks for being a part of IndexWa.org. We appreciate you more than you know.

Ed

Something New For Donors on Our Forums

We installed a new feature today for donors. ANY donation amount to IndexWa.org will give you the following feature(s) in your control panel on our forums.

Full control over your user name color which includes:
-border
-color
-background
-font style
-text decoration
-font weight

This is available through drop down dialogs (which are colored for easy choosing).

For a user to change their color(s), it’s in the main profile section (where you can change interests).

By the way. If donating via Paypal, there is an area you can donate as a gift. We are not charged for gifts. Only donations. It’s not a big deal and is minimal but every penny counts to keep things running.

For those of your whom do not wish to use Paypal, view our blog for other ways to donate.

Notice to Users of Comcast

To all users of Comcast:

We sent out a NEWS AS IT HAPPENS and six of those bounced back to us. Apparently your ISP has us blocked as spammers.

Please whitelist us or contact your ISP and notify them that indexwa.org should not be blocked.

After 3 bounces back to us, we normally delete users from our database.

Thanks for your attention to this matter.

Happy Birthday IndexWa.org

Woo Hoo!!

On August 8, 2007, IndexWa.org had its beginning.  It has been a super fun ride and we appreciate everybody that has contributed via sending us news or financially, to make it happen.

Happy Birthday to Us! Three years old today.

And again THANK YOU EVERYBODY!!!

Forums Up and Running!!

Our Forums are up and running. We do hope you enjoy them and make use of them. We have been through this one other time in 2008.

This time we spent countless hours asking many people questions and trying to make it just right. We know we can’t please everybody but we do our best.

Keep in mind that even “outsiders” can post here too. There is one area that is really targeted at Index or the Town, but outsiders are more than welcome to post.

Please contact us if there are any issues or you think the rules need modification or anything.

Additions or Deletions to the Forum? We tried to put something in there for everybody. Let us know.

Here is the link to the Forums -> http://www.indexwa.org/forum/

July 2010 Newsletter Now On Line

The July 2010 Newsletter has been posted to the Newsletter Archive.

This Newsletter was sent out to subscribers on at the end of June 2010.
If you would like to receive the Newsletter via email and get them EARLIER, you may subscribe HERE. As always, we promise NO SPAM and we keep your email address secure.

Small Revamp of Index Blog

We are doing a slight revamp of the blog area. If you were/are a registered user of the Town of Index Blog, your name and password has been removed.

We are working hard on some software for the future and registered users were throwing the stats off during the install. It will be a short while before you should register once again.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Ed

Broken Links

As time passes, links on our site to other sites tend to “break” or are no longer valid.

We ran a program today to verify 190+ links in the blog. The links that were permanently broken have been removed and the links with a re-direct are still in place.

In the event you see a post and the link that is posted within the post is not clickable, the hot link was removed.

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We would like to welcome our latest supporter of IndexWa.org.

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Their ads are on the Links, Documents and Calendar of Events pages.

Please visit our sponsors sites and support them. They are the ones that keep IndexWa.org up and running.