The SWNI Web Server and Mailing Lists will be offline from about 3pm Friday, March 7th, until about 1 pm Monday, March 10th, as the SWNI server undergoes an upgrade. During this time, any web pages hosted on the SWNI server will go dark (but will light up again when the server comes back online). eMail sent to the Mailing Lists will bounce around in cyberspace (for up to 72 hours) until the server comes back online (at which time they should discover the server is back online and be delivered; YMMV). Sorry for any inconveniences this may cause.

Hello SWNI server pals, this blurb is to document and continue our discussion on the pros and cons of letting neighborhoods use the SWNI server as their host, but then they use something other than Drupal to maintain their pages.   

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I recall there were some concerns about security access to the site so they could maintain their pages, outside of Drupal.  And there was a suggest

Here's Draft 4 of how we might organize SWNI materials, Quick links, etc...

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Quick Links menu
• Communications
--Email Lists
--Forums
--SWNI Newspaper
--Web
• Community Services
--Libraries
--Loaves & Fishes
--Parks & Community Centers
--Multnomah Historical Society
--Schools
--Watershed Resource Center
•Crime Prevention/Public Safety
--Emergency Preparedness

Victor wrote:
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While uploading images for the BNA Trees pages today some images as small as 57KB hung during the Attach step; i.e. in the File Attachments section, I chose the image, then when I clicked Attach button the progress bar would appear (with dialog lines in the progress bar moving) and stay there and stay there and stay there and ... I waited as long as 10 minutes... but the Attach/Upload would not finish...

What are the ways that we can give Neighborhood sites (on the SWNI Server) and other Books there own distinctive looks... i.e. not have them all use the same Drupal template?

Michael K says the Group module might be one method.
Mike C says while it would be good for book pages to have their own looks, the basic overall structure of the pages, Menus on the left, etc should remain consistent so that visitors still know they are on the SWNI Server.

Search window on the SWNI home page, no matter what you enter there it always returns with:

Your search yielded no results

Need to test this in the Drupal 5.2 sandbox and see if its fixed in that release.

If not then we should remove it until we can get it working again.

In the Quick Links and Site Aid menus there is a lot of needless white space to the left of each bulleted item. Is there a way to get rid of it?

Currently that list in the menu is generated using ul and li bulleted list html tags... Is the white space caused by those tags? Is this just a template problem? Can we create a list using different html tags?

Victor plans to expirement in the sandbox to find out.

I think the reason so many people are encountering the

• The name "nameyougave" has been denied access.

message when they try to register, is that the instruction they get on the registration page (http://swni.org/user/register) says:

Username*

Your full name or your preferred username; only letters, numbers and spaces are allowed.

The Bridlemile Neighborhood Association, Bridlemile Creek Stewards, and Albert Kelly Creek Restoration websites have moved here to the SWNI server; below are a list of new and updated pages done as part of the move.

Now that this large time consuming task is finally behind me, if you would like help moving or creating your own similar neighborhood pages or email lists here on the SWNI server I'll be glad to share with you what I've learned (many thanks to Michael Kisor) and help you learn how to do similar. Victor von Salza, victor@vonsalza.com, 503-246-2146, BNA webmaster

Post your questions about Mailman list management here.

We have installed the Mailman mailing list open-source software on our server. With it, you can quickly and easily send eMail to list subscribers.

Once your mailing list is set up, you should review the list settings. Mailman has a wealth of configuration options; many are esoteric. Fortunately, relatively few need to be considered by list owners since most have reasonable defaults and may be safely ignored.

Only server administrators can create or delete a mail list. The person assigned as list owner, however, then has complete control over list configuration and management.

We have installed the open-source Mailman mailing list software on our server. This enables us to quickly and easily create community mailing lists for a variety of purposes and audiences. Sending eMail to list subscribers is simple, and automation handles the drudgery of maintaining subscriber lists. Your lists will each have their own home page (as will each subscriber), so folks will be able to locate and self-subscribe to your list. You need not know subscribers’ eMail addresses, worry about bounced eMails, etc.

A “sub-domain” is that part of a URI between the “http://” and the domain name. For example, in the URI “http://www.swni.org/,” the sub-domain is “www.”

Historically, the purpose of the sub-domain was to route to a particular machine on the network. It can still be used for this purpose, or to route a request to another area on a single server.