I have upgraded the system that Open Source Theology runs on. As with most upgrades there is likely to be some degradation of service for a while. Some things are likely to have disappeared, and new-fangled functions will have been added, not all of which will be immediately apparent and not all of which will work properly. But in general terms it seems to be working OK. Let me know if you come across anything that’s badly broken.
In honour of the fact that spring has reached the Netherlands at last and the sycamore tree outside our balcony has suddenly burst into leaf, I have added a new theme called ‘spring’. If you want to try it, go to my account, click the edit tab, and choose the theme from the list. It has three columns and needs a rather wide screen.
broken links
Posting formatted text
John, thanks for pointing that out. I’ve fixed the link.
The reason you were not getting the line breaks is that you had formatted paragraphs with <div>…</div> - presumably because you were using an external editor and then pasting in. The WYSIWYG editor appears to interpret these correctly but the underlying system doesn’t recognize them. If you are going to paste formatted (rather than plain) text into the editor, you should either use a rich-text editor such as wordpad or an html editor that is not set up to use div or span tags.
For general information: when posting to OST you have a choice between two input formats.
1. If you are not using the rich-text editor that is built into the site or an external editor that inserts html tags, you should select the Plain text input format. You can still use basic html tags for italics and emphasis (eg. <b>, <i>, <em>) but the paragraph formatting is handled automatically.
2. If you are using the built-in editor or posting html-formatted text, you should select the Html formatted text input format. Paragraphs should be formatted with <p>…</p> (you don’t have to worry about this if you are using the built-in editor). Bulleted and numbered lists, blockquote formatting are also available.
I’ve rewritten the Posting and formatting guidelines to reflect the changes to the site.
Slooooow
Andrew - I don’t want to add to the whining, but things are painfully slow. Perhaps the slowdown is due to the hosting of your site rather than the upgrade?
Whiners welcome
Thanks, Virgil. I didn’t myself notice a significant slowdown as a result of the upgrade, but I’m aware that there are times when things run sluggishly - it’s a bit variable. When you’re logged in the system creates the page each time you request it - you don’t get pages delivered from the cache which can be slightly out-of-date. So if you’re just reading, you might as well stay logged out.
If others are finding things unacceptably slow, let me know.
(Having looked into this a bit more, it looks like there may be server problems at the moment. Sorry about that. I guess it will clear up soon.)
Links not working (?)
A few things that don’t seem to be working properly:
* Both the “Introduction” and “Rules of Engagement” links in the upper-right hand corner of the homepage yield “Page not found”;
* Most of the links in the navbar in the header (“Overview” through “Help”) do nothing (perhaps these are features not yet implemented?). Each of these seems to make javascript calls, but I don’t see any errors in the js console.
I am running Firefox v1.5.0.3 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3).
Thanks. Brian
Brian, thanks for this.