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Wordpress Update 2.7.1

Geoff — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:45:44 +0000

I’ll be upgrading the site in the next few minutes. Expect 15min downtime, if any.

Edit 8:14PM
Whoops! I had a feeling I was supposed to back up the site. Oh well, now we’re back to the green. But that works out anyway because Creative Summit was canceled and we needed to remake the skin to reflect DSVC only.

UG2 Review: Ourselves

Geoff — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:48:35 +0000

Having been in a relatively beta format for over five months, expanding and contracting through my own education and understanding of the WordPress environment and the language of PHP, and listening to several suggestions and requests of current and past members, ug2.org has frankensteined itself into an awkward organism with no sense of purpose or direction. With lulls and explosions of member activity, strange and clumsy appendages, and an apparent lack of awesome, our website needs some counsel.

It is my understanding that hardly anyone uses the website. And those that do visit are often frequenting on Thursdays, which is not surprising. Also, although greatly appreciated, most of the blog posts are completely unrelated and discontinuous in nature.

So in an effort to repackage and tame this bolt-necked creature, I’d like to welcome the awesome. Bring it on as if it were a Teen Choice and MTV award nominee about cheer leading. Suggest new features, or spit upon the unpopular ones. Feel free to use references/examples as well.

To start, I’ll share what’s been on my mind:

A dedicated area for upcoming events and reminders, aside from the calendar page
Guest contributors who are professional designers and/or faculty
UG2 Review posts, like this one, that spark dialogue about websites, print pieces, or user submissions (student portfolio reviews!)
Weekly Q&A from professionals and/or faculty
Weekly/biweekly design competitions
Website staff, who collaborate on interesting topics, and post weekly textures and tips

Suggestions are open to the public; membership is not required.

Meeting Minutes

Geoff — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:13:56 +0000

If you’re wondering where the minutes have gone, I’ve taken them out of the main circulation and put a link to them in the sidebar. They remain, however, in the RSS feed.

Also, the number of posts on the homepage has been reduced to avoid copious amounts of vertical scrolling.

Site Maintenance

Geoff — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:11:15 +0000

Being based on an open-source cms, UG2’s site has the opportunity and privilege to utilize Wordpress™’s latest-and-greatest releases. Within the next few minutes, I will be upgrading the site to version 2.7. If you feel lost after the update, this is normal; the Dashboard has been redesigned. This blog post, complete with video walk-through, may be of use to you.

Please be patient during the upgrade process. Some features will be disabled or inaccessible. Estimated time for completion is 30 minutes.

/Edit @6:07PM
Unexpected issues have been discovered on my personal website (which I updated first). When those are resolved, I will translate the solutions to this site as well.