15/09/2008 - Some Corrections and Improvements
Improvements:
• Before applying a default language, you can define your settings to try to see if the language of the user's navigator is one of your organization's languages. This improvement applies to services.
• Bounce email has been added to the newsletter configuration. This address receives error messages or alerts from newsletter mailings. The next step is to try to automate the clearing out of users who have repeated sending errors.
• Now the newsletter service allows you to define an external RSS provider.
Resolved problems:
• Links service: Now when a category is edited, the URL Identifier is not lost.
• RSS Page: Now it uses external providers, if available, for the events and newsletter Services.
• In AutoContent (newletter or web page editor) the option to enter a URL instead of selecting a news item is functioning again.
• News/Sections: Resolving the error in categorizing new translations.
Thanks to everyone who helps us every day by notifying us of problems and by sending in suggestions for improvements.
17/11/2007 - Important improvements on the Homepage
Homepage:
• Now this service is called Webpages, as we think this better matches with what the service is offering at present.
WebPages and Metatags:
• It allows defining Metatags for the redirection page. Usually, the redirection page sends the user to another page depending on the language or some other parameters. Search engines such as Google do see this page but so far it couldn’t be indexed because it wouldn’t have any content. We have added an option to insert metatags and define the text and links that the search engines will collect to enhance the indexation of the web site; this is, to make it easier to be selected by Google when related searches are run. It can be configured from: Services Setup -> WebPages -> Preferences.
Forms:
• Customfields such as country and UN delegations can now be defined as mandatory.
Sitemaps:
• Optimization of the URLs to be sent to Google. Elimination of external URLs that Google world not consider and therefore, would not help the web to be selected by the search engines.
News:
• A link has been added at the News service home to visualize the news in every language (not only the navigation language)
• Navigation by sections works correctly again.
We hope all this improvements will be of your interest!
27/07/2007 - Summer improvements
When the summer time arrives, the majority of people opts to ‘migrate’ to cooler environments, take a little bit of free time, relax,... But in Iwith.org we have a tradition: a bunch of crazy programmers lock ourselves out with no phone, no email, and no distractions, and we star to implement, enhance and design enhancements and services for the Ab•core platform.
That’s how “La Plataforma” was born, on summer 2001, and, since then, each year we repeat the tradition, and on these dates we try to do enhancements and changes that, during the year, because of work, professional life or simply because of lack of time, we are not able to do.
This summer we are working on the user management interface’s design, and adding the concept of extranet user. If you are interesting in knowing what is this, keep reading...
Ab.core is the iwith.org programme that brings the Internet services (web pages, e-mail, volunteering agents, virtual communities, etc) closer to the organisations.
For more information visit our website:
http://www.iwith.org
