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Change Log

Summary of changes and improvements to the site:

2005.07.02
- Added checkbox selection for different areas on open requests page.
2005.04.16
- Administrative forms that allow admins to add areas, edit areas of new users.
- Email alert sent to admins when a new volunteer is created in an unknown area.
- Added creative commons link to the bottom of the Gallery
- Biographies
  - Internal app for editing bio, uploading headshot.
  - Area for public bio viewing (linked in "About" section,) shows completed assignments if any.
  - Links to photographer bios in the guidelines page.
- Front page changes:
  - Volunteer name now listed next to date of assignment, which is a link to photographer's bio.
  - Added previous five photos underneath the latest, what do you think?
  - Changed akward wording that points to the Gallery, moved RSS link to the crumbs on the top.
2005.03.20
- Photographers listed on guidelines page now grouped by area with headers.
- Ground work on biographical section for photographers, including photo-upload form.
2005.03.06
- Added interface for requesters and photographers to email each other.
- Extends Gallery style over the entire site, headers are now white text on green background.
- Made common page footer, easier to print error messages.
- Added Contact Info page.
- Fixed a password-changing bug that was preventing people from logging into the Gallery.
2005.02.22
- Added option for "Email me whenever a request is completed."
- Both for those emails and for the "New request in your area" emails, Rogues can turn them off (in "Edit Info")
- Fixed bug where drop-down box changes would not stick in "Edit Info", also changed made there now propegate to Gallery properly, including name changes.
- Boldified Gallery in the headers.
- Style changes to Gallery, now green and grey. I hated those goddamn pipes.
- Moved over many more bits of code to using DBO interface, which includes better error checking, is hard against SQL-injection.
- Cleaned up the handling of error messages on the external and internal sites.
- Cursor now focuses to login box when attempting to sign in.
- roguebot@photorogue.com and other addresses now properly set up.
2005.02.10
- Reorganized internal site to make subclasses, basically.
- Added "My Info" and "Edit Info" sections, Rogues can now change their passwords.
2005.01.31
- Added green highlighting in the Open Requests page for requests in your area.
- Added top menu to Gallery for a sense of consistency.
2005.01.30
- Tag saying "Photographed by: [volunteer name]" now is automatically added to album descriptions. Gallery had a builtin "owner" feature that I slightly modified to acheive this effect.
- Drop-down box on registration page that allows you to choose from existing areas.
- Automated updates on the front page when a photographer creates a new album. Nice extra feature: it will not display empty albums.
- HTML-ized the changelog I have been keeping for a while.
- Emails will automatically be dispatched to requesters when volunteers accept, release or complete their request.
- Added an About PhotoRogue.com page with a few miscellaneous links.
- Added "Current progress" section to the Goals Page regarding the project's current progress towards the yearly goals.
2005.01.27
- UI improvements in volunteers section, table of requests now has alternating colors for readability, and displays the location of the request.
2005.01.22
- Sorted volunteers into generic places, like "California - Bay Area" and added drop-down box to request page for people to specify location.
- Pulled out page headers into a single function, so I don't have to make changes in 15 places whenever I want to change the page headers.
- Setup mailer to email people when new requests come in for their area.
2005.01.14
- Created volunteer sign-in page.
- Created pages for viewing requests: open.php for open requests, mine.php for user's accepted requests and all.php for all requests of all time.
- Modified volunteer sign-up scripts to automatically create a user in Gallery
2005.01.09
- Created basic site including guidelines and volunteer sign-up page.
- Created database with preliminary schema.
- Set up Gallery.