redesign for UCalgaryBlogs

by D'Arcy Norman on December 15, 2009

There have been a bunch of changes, hopefully improvements, over the last few days.

  1. The BuddyPress “social networking layer” was turned off. It didn’t look like anyone was actually using it, and it was causing confusion (2 separate places to set avatar images, multiple locations to post new content, confusion around privacy, and complicating site maintenance and support). So, for now, I made the executive decision to turn it off. It may come back in the future, but not until BuddyPress has had some more time to stew.
  2. A new theme. I’ve switched the “home” theme and am working on building some more useful functionality into it – a handy dashboard to access all of your sites, for starters. I’ll be tweaking the “home” site over the next couple of weeks.
  3. A better “admin bar” – that grey bar that runs along the top of the page. When logged in, it now provides much better functionality, making it easier to get to the good bits of your site, and to create and manage content quickly.

I’ve got a bunch of other things I’m (slowly) working on, and will try to roll out some more improvements over the holiday break.

If you have any questions, please contact me.

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