A Change Is Gonna Come ... It's been a long time coming.
For some unknown reason, I can only post from a very ancient iPad today. I can type a heading, but the comment box has disappeared completely from my up to date laptop. I suspect the same has happened to the two members who tried to start new posts earlier.
Okay, everyone, this site will migrate to a new server on Wednesday, the Fourth of July.
Prepare for a couple of bumps in the road, but hopefully it'll be an invisible transition. We'll start working on righting the forum immediately thereafter.
CPNhelp has now migrated to Scotland, right in the middle of the midge season!
So will the site now have a Scottish accent? ?
Did you not consider an English county; Kent perhaps?
Oh, I just pasted in that link above! Yes, I can now paste again. ?
So you don't mind the accent?
I imagine it was probably the mountains, lochs and glens which attracted it to Scotland. You don't get many of those in the south - though I would have happily introduced it to the Dungeness lighthouse. Possibly put off by the house prices down there, too.
It might not like the midges though: they can be a pain until September.
It hasn't yet migrated ANYWHERE!
At this point, it's simply packing its bags and writing its 'to-do' list, in preparation for its move.
I assume all our old messages have disappeared without a trace and won't be packing their bags, buying their sunscreen and travelling to Scotland. Is the right?
Post changes that you would like here!
I am thinking that since the site is moving comparatively smoothly at the moment, we had better leave it where it is and get on with building the new site: I don't want anything that we still have to get lost in the move, and doing it this way will only result in one period of downtime rather than two.
I would like everyone to post here what they would particularly like to see on the new site, then in a week or so, I can make out a list and send it to the people building the new site. Please post everything on this thread to make it easy for me to find it!
Will joining a new site be acceptable?
Of course, a new site means that everyone will have to re-join. Is everybody okay with that?
No problems about re-joining a new site.
As for the new site, pretty much as it was with categories for discussing aspects of different diseases and the blogs where we can tell and talk about our individual journey's.
And lets not forget a good search tool.
PLEASE update your email address in the 'My Account' section, everyone!
I'm thinking we may have to send an email to each member of the site, asking them to re-join (down the road, once we start the new page).
I think that will be the case in a couple of months since no web builder over here likes Drupal8: Suhail advises a new start all round and I tend to agree.
Thinking about various things we ought to do, I have been very concerned that I have been making my own sites rather uncomfortable for people with vision difficulties. I am gradually changing things, but I would like to hear of people's ideas for this site.
My idea is that text size should remain as it is, because it can be adjusted for an individual's preferences on their own PC or phone. Text should be largely san-serif, because that is easier to read on a screen for anyone. Also, we keep line length so that we don't get whole chunks running the whole width of the screen.
I was told that dark black text on a brilliant white background is not comfortable, and brilliant white text on a black background even more so, so how about dark grey on pale cream? I'll do a few mock-ups.
Oh, so that's where those dim-to-the-point-of-nearly-unreadable sites come from: they've been listening to that sort of advice. Not that I think you, Sarah, would be so dumb as to drop the contrast that far. But really, if people have screens that are too bright, they should turn down the brightness. Not only does that work for every website, it saves energy -- and if they happen to go out into the sunshine, where one needs all the brightness one can get and then some, they can reverse the setting.
Sarah ain't dumb, take it from me. She may be an unrelenting taskmistress (I should know) but she ain't dumb.
I'm not quite sure whether to take that as a compliment or not!
No, Norman, I hate those dim-to the-point-of-unreadable sites as much as you do! I was just thinking of some sort of compromise which could look classy at the same time. I will post what I have in mind in a few days, probably at the weekend, so please let me know what you think: I'm sure you will!
Jim has given me the password so Easyspace are going to migrate the site next week. They will then check the site over and start building a replacement as soon as we decide what should be done The new site will be built using a dev. file so the current site will be usable whilst work is being done.
Many thanks to Jim for allowing us to use all the old helpful cpn information built up since the start of the site.
Hopefully you will look at the site one day and it will be new and everything will work: simple as that. I will, of course, tell you when that will be! But, first things first, the migration will be next week.
Remember: site built in Scotland, server nearer me, but nowhere near Kent.
I can view how many 'reads' this post has had, but no one is posting in response.
Could you take a moment, please, to post something on this thread, so we can keep the changeover info up at the top? Thanks!
Thank you Mac: maybe tomorrow I plan to post an idea on visuals so would like a bit of talking on that.
Barcelona - YES! Any reply, just to keep this topic fresh in people's minds, thank you.
I'm afraid the building of this site may have hit a terminus. Starting fresh may have to be the ultimate choice, but options are being mulled and fleshed out.
Mac, I am shortly to pass on the magic number to Jim which will free us all. Jim seems as keen as us!