Ongoing Development
All updates and revisions to the Your Dentist Stage 3 website framework are logged here. New features are constantly being added to increase ease of use.
| August 28, 2007 | - update including many minor bug fixes, repositioning of the control panel, and the addition of the function to regenerate the website in the control panel.
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| July 6, 2007 | - when editing HTML, the styles you have selected are now reflected
- expanded HTML editing height to 600px from 300px - especially good for those with larger displays but more reflective of the working area.
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July 5, 2007
| - fixed bug with page control (new) whereby you were not able to insert the new page where you wanted to; you had to go back and move it
- fixed bug where moving the page did in fact move the page, but did not update where the computer thought it had moved to which was confusing.
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June 13, 2007
| - significant upgrading of search engine friendliness
- upgrade of some code to further optimise performance
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Febuary 16, 2007
| - added the ability to set the minimum size of the "info" (information block) in the "Look" -> "Sizes" control panel.
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Febuary 14, 2007
| - in the payment options template, now programmed to give links (where found) to the payment type's website.
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Febuary 12, 2007
| - made the practitioner's template use the standard background colour chosen by the customer. Calculated a compatible shade of that colour for use on alternate rows.
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Febuary 9, 2007
| - produced a new training movie "getting started". This is designed to show how to get a stage 3 website started from scratch.
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Febuary 8, 2007
| - made it much harder for the web browser to "hang on" to images from it's cache rather than using new images. Applicable mainly for header images. Added refresh button in the image galleries to force reload.
- corrected problem with the new page control interface that when one added a page to the list but did not yet generate the website, that the website would not consequently display an error.
- replace "Add page" with "Next >>" button in the new page interface to avoid confusion.
- added note to the new page interface that changes or additions don't actually show on the website until the website is generated/regenerated.
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Febuary 7, 2007
| - corrected the lack of the ability to add a web page into the website from the new page control interface.
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Febuary 5, 2007
| - custom pages list now sorted by name - easier for long lists of custom pages.
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| November 14, 2006 | - released alternative page control functionality for easier management and much more emphasis on search engine optimisation.
- added ability to call the filename one thing and the title of the page another.
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| October 31, 2006 | - added ability to display the "background" image as a background image on the website allowing for many more website differentiation options.
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| October 30, 2006 | - added ability to upload a "background" image for later use on the website.
- can now cycle between "head", "practice" and "background" images as well as image library in the image control control panel..
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October 26, 2006
| - fixed bug with setting the style of the new border. Now works.
- added ability to change the colour of the border.
- added the ability to update a single page without updating the entire website.
- made some cosmetic changes to admin interface to make it easier to squash more in a single window.
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October 25, 2006
| - adding in the ability to add a border around the entire display area.
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October 13, 2006
| - bug discovered and fixed: in Internet Explorer, team member photos and practitioner photos would not upload.
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October 12, 2006
| - added ability to practitioner template to set a display order
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October 11, 2006
| - new template "Practitioners". This allows you to add and remove practitioners in your practice including photos, biographies and speciality
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| October 9, 2006 | - set cascading style sheet to all admin pages to make the look and feel of the admin section more pleasant and easier to operate.
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| August 3, 2006 | - bug fix: if you uploaded a teamphoto called teamphoto (.<whatever>), the image didn't make it on to the site.
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| July 27, 2006 | - Added in the field allowing the specification of a finanical policy on the payment information page.
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| July 26, 2006 | - wrote javascript and lasso so that when an image is to be inserted, the "Quicklinks" pull-down menu actually shows what is in the image library.
- wrote javascript and lasso so that documents and current web pages appear in the "Quicklinks" pull-down menu when inserting a link.
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| July 13, 2006 | - fixed image upload bug as a result of the June 19 update &/or the server migration from the old to the new raid 0, twin G4.
- ironed out permission problems found on "thedentalcentre.com.au" and another site - monitoring for re-occurrence.
- added ability to proportionally scale images x or y.
- discovered that page names can't have special characters.
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| June 19, 2006 | - an emergency upgrade was necessary and was performed late on the 14th June. Unfortunately this broke some functions - namely image upload and custom pages. This problem was not noticed or reported until the 18th (a Sunday). All noticable problems have now been rectified.
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| June 9, 2006 | - found why "borders" would not work in IE. Fixed. Taken recommendation to use Firefox down off the Internet.
- fixed a potential security problem with authorisation to the admin section of the website.
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| June 6, 2006 | - produced movie manuals "intro","colours" and "fonts"
- on fonts, had a change of heart in maximum font size - set more options up to 32 point
- produced movie manuals "borders", "Page Control", "Image Control", "Document Control", "Custom Pages" & templates
- uploaded movies to, and setup, http://downloads.cybermax.net.au/stage3manual for fast downloads
- created http://www.dentist.com.au/stage3/manual.html
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| June 5, 2006 | - beginning work on audio/visual training. Audio level problem on delelopment machine.
- when selecting the "team" template, whatever was in panel 33 was not removed. This could be confusing. Now the panel is blacked out if it is not showing relevant detail.
- attempt #2 at explaining the page control control panel. This is too complex and will be rewritten, but in the meantime hopefully the instruction is easier to understand.
- fixed patient info and post op care as per team template above.
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| June 2, 2006 | - added ability to NOT optimise & resize an image for web. Optimising an image destroyed animated gifs and shockwave files
- swf files are now recognised
- uploading of documents into http://<websites>/documents/ is now supported. Upload up to 10 files at once.
- fixed renaming problem on duplicate files on document upload.
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| June 1, 2006 | - Practitioners template: if there was a mix of practitioners with photos and without, the table in which they were listed was incorrectly drawn up: fixed
- Practitioners template: alternated a very light grey background with a white background to better differentiate between each practitioner.
- Head image1: fixed a problem with using different file formats. PNG is good for all-round quality and has transparency support, GIF supports animated gifs but can be tricky to get the quality right, and JPEG is meant for photographs so theoretically it's quality is higher. The head image still needs to be named "head" but the file extension can be whatever you're using - i.e. .png, .gif, jpg or even .jpeg
- Head section2: the head section is now the same colour as the background colour. This means that transparency in your image will display correctly. Using transparency in your images will be a very powerful way to control the look and feel of your website - especially to make the site a little less "blocky".
- Made the submenu buttons the same foreground/background colours as the main buttons and widened them to take up the full length of the main button.
- Fixed bug to do with the head image file format change made earlier today: either the static pages had the head image or the dynamic pages or vice-versa.
- Enabled transparency background to show through on previewing the image in admin.
- Fixed bug whereby if you clicked "Reset Preview" in the colour control panel, the control panel would stop updating the preview page.
- enabled uploading of .png, .gif, .jpg or .jpeg images of the header image and of the practice & tested.
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| May 26, 2006 | - Your Dentist Stage 3 websites launched at ADX Melbourne May 26-28.
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1. the "head" image is the image that appears at the very top of the page
2. the head section contains the head image...
3. panel 3 is the large, single frame on the right in the admin interface. The control panel is panel 1 and the panel below that is #2. |
