Site Updation history and other details

[rocksea]

I have uploaded some avatars..
Avatars are small graphics that are displayed under
your username whenever you post. You can access
them through the User Control Panel (User CP).
You may use your own avatars as well.

[rocksea]

the background color of threads is changed to white for better
contrast and readability. Other changes later.

[rocksea]

Name, Study/Occupation fields added in the user profile.

You may add your name and details through UserCP -> Edit Profile

[rocksea]

Only the latest 2 + 2 threads from Research and Training opportunities,
upcoming Invited Lectures and occasionally Ocean News will be displayed
in the center of the site homepage. Rest you may access through Forums.
This is to avoid unnecessary comments showing up on the front page.

[rocksea]

Happy New YearrrrRRR..!!
Our website is going to be officially launched tonight.
Please spread the word in whatever ways.

To solve some of the database related problems, I have added
few more fields in the User Profile. UserCP-> Edit Profile.
All the details in the current group database can be added here.

[rocksea]

1. Bibliography/Reference Library added in the Notes & Links Forums.

2. O of Oceanographers Net logo loaded with an Ocean Wave.
[If anyone is interested and have ideas abt a better logo, pls
make it and send it over]

3. Extra 1GB b/w + 100mb space acquired due to the increase in
number of users. Now we have 2GB b/w per month with 200mb space.

[rocksea]

Added around 300 smilies. Click on 'More' on the right panel:tongue8:
or 'Show all Smilies' in the drop down box. Njoi

[rocksea]

Added two modules on homepage which provides links to some
general and basic information:

Online Books and Lectures
http://oceanographers.net/forums/images/misc/favicon.jpg (http://www.oceanographers.net/index.php?page=pob) Physical Oceanography
http://oceanographers.net/forums/images/misc/favicon.jpg (http://www.oceanographers.net/index.php?page=gfd) Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
http://oceanographers.net/forums/images/misc/favicon.jpg (http://www.oceanographers.net/index.php?page=model) Ocean & Atmospheric Modeling
Data and Softwares
http://oceanographers.net/forums/images/misc/favicon.jpg (http://www.oceanographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=88) Ocean & Atmosphere Data
http://oceanographers.net/forums/images/misc/favicon.jpg (http://www.oceanographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=308) Data Resources & Information
http://oceanographers.net/forums/images/misc/favicon.jpg (http://www.oceanographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=8) Softwares for Oceanographic Mapping

They provide several links and information in each categories.
Click the icon on the left to each title. More links will be added in time.
The links were provided by several Oceanographers Net members :icon_albi

[rocksea]

Sorry for not updating the site updation history.

Major changes after last post:

1. Oceanographers RuNet added (http://www.oceanographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=326)
Oceanographers MultiLingual for Oceanographers who find it difficult
to converse in English.

2. Oceanographers WiKi (http://www.oceanographers.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=24)added as experimental

3. Donation through Paypal services (http://www.oceanographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=708)
For bettering facilities & services on Oceanographers Net.

Forgot to mention this (It was done about 10 months before;) ) :
4. Members List compulsory fields. In the start, none of the user fields in
the profile where compulsory, to encourage user registration.
This lead to several members failing to enter any details, which
isn't helpful for interaction between Oceanographers.
Hence the user profile fields 'Name, Institute, Occupation & Research
Interests' were made compulsory.
The necessity was pointed out in the beginning by some other members
as well.

[rocksea]

Oceanographers Net now has RSS feed in/out facilities. :celebrate:

For RSS feed from ONet, just attach the following code to the forum link of our site: external.php?type=rss2

For example, if you want to be updated with all new posts at ONet, give
http://www.oceanographers.net/forums/external.php?type=rss2


If it is only selected forums, eg: opportunities & conference forums, give:
http://www.oceanographers.net/forums/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=2,3
where 2 & 3 are the concerned forum ids. You can see the forum id from the link of each forum.

Feeds: Feeds, also known as RSS feeds, XML feeds, syndicated content, or web feeds, contain frequently updated content published by a website. You can configure the feeds to your email/website/browser etc.

Other recent updates on the website will be detailed soon.