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New template

A new template named simple has been created today.

In response to some excellent suggestions we have also put up a second new template called "simply minimal tables" - this template has the least amount of tables we could manage. However, it is still a little buggy. We will continue to work on it - in the meantime if anyone has some tips on how we can improve the code please let us know.

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Searching for people

If you wish to search for a specific person just type their name into the search box and the system will find them.

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New tutorial

A new tutorial has been posted which describes tagging and searching within Elgg. A big thank you to BCCampus and Paul Stacey for allowing us to do this.

Keywords: bccampus, tagging, tutorial

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RSS feeds for tags

Each tag on Elgg now has its own RSS 0.91 feed. This serves several purposes:

If you have an RSS aggregator, you can keep track of all the people, weblog posts and files associated with a particular subject. For example, if you're running Mozilla Firefox (and if not, why not?), you'll see a little orange icon in the bottom right of your screen on the tag pages. Click on it and you can create a "live bookmark" that automatically updates with all the latest posts, people and files for that tag. The Thunderbird email client has similar functionality, and there are many stand-alone RSS aggregators available. There is also an explicit link to the RSS feed at the bottom of every tag page.
If you're developing a tagging-enabled service, you can allow your users to see related pages on Elgg by parsing the RSS feed, which is of the form http://apcala.com/search/rss.php?tag=[TAG]. We're planning on developing a similar page here, that links to related topics on Technorati, Flickr and so on - if you'd like to be added, send us an email and we'll discuss the possibilities.

NB: as with everything else in the system, you'll see different items in the RSS feed depending on your login status, who your friends are, and so on.

Keywords: elgg, rss, tags

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Elgg 0.1a

The software powering this site and Apcala.com has officially been designated Elgg version 0.1 alpha and released as open source software under the GNU Public License. There's installation instructions inside the ZIP file, and we'll shortly be releasing documentation about how to program features, adding the source to CVS so people can contribute to the code and releasing some stand-alone templates for people to add to their test systems.

For more details, see the development site, where we'll post further documentation; it also includes a weblog where we'll discuss development-related issues.

Keywords: apcala, elgg, open source

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New alpha release

Elgg 0.1.1a has now been released - this release corrects some of the early bugs reported. It also includes some additional templates. Go to the development site for the latest details.

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New template

Just to let you know that a new template has been designed. This template is called 'vancouver'. Unsuprisingly it features a picture of Vancouver. What is interesting about this template is the ability to alter the main image. To do so follow these instructions:

1) Create your own template based on vancouver
2) Then go to edit template
3) Scroll down until you see the 'Stylesheet' box which allows you to edit the stylesheet code
4) Click in this box and then scroll down until you see the following code:

.header {
background-color:#FFFFFF;
background: url(/_templates/vancouver/switch_image3.jpg) no-repeat;

Then you can change the part 'switch_image3.jpg' to one of the following:

switch_image1.jpg
switch_image2.jpg
switch_image4.jpg
.
.
.
switch_image8.jpg

Once you change your code - scroll down until you find the 'save' button - click this and you will have changed your image.

These will provide different pictures of vancouver.

P.S - More images will appear shortly - all these pictures were taken by Meri

Keywords: meri, templates, vancouver

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