M3P:Redesigning website in 2016 - Revision history

Tonisant: /* Mediawiki */ minor styling

2016-04-02T08:30:33Z

Mediawiki: minor styling

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	* FOOTER: We seem to have acquired a rather large grey banner at the bottom of the screen. This grows in size on some pages and is rather noticeable and unnecessary since it merely brings up the footer to be always on screen. Can we return to having the footer simply at the bottom of each page rather than at the bottom of the screen in grey? Thanks! :-) --[[User:Tonisant\|Toni Sant]] ([[User talk:Tonisant\|talk]]) 09:45, 27 October 2015 (UTC)		* FOOTER: We seem to have acquired a rather large grey banner at the bottom of the screen. This grows in size on some pages and is rather noticeable and unnecessary since it merely brings up the footer to be always on screen. Can we return to having the footer simply at the bottom of each page rather than at the bottom of the screen in grey? Thanks! :-) --[[User:Tonisant\|Toni Sant]] ([[User talk:Tonisant\|talk]]) 09:45, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

	* CALENDAR OF EVENTS: there is a need for a calendar of events...so as a quick fix for now, we created pages for Music Events in malta for each month, day-by-day, there is October, nov and dec for now. we are working to find a better solution for this...perhaps one as in wikipwedia		* CALENDAR OF EVENTS: there is a need for a calendar of events...so as a quick fix for now, we created pages for Music Events in malta for each month, day-by-day, there is October, nov and dec for now. we are working to find a better solution for this...perhaps one as in wikipwedia watch this space . [[User:Tonygrimaud\|Tony Grimaud]]([[Talk:Tonygrimaud\|talk]]) 13:18, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
	watch this space . [[User:Tonygrimaud\|Tony Grimaud]]([[Talk:Tonygrimaud\|talk]]) 13:18, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

	:: This issue is going to generate quite some talk so I suggest we discuss what to do and how it's going to work on at [[M3P_talk:Current events]]. Eventually we'll also action whatever needs to be done on the [[M3P:To_Do_list#Events_Calendar_.28urgent.29\|To Do list]] --[[User:Tonisant\|Toni Sant]] ([[User talk:Tonisant\|talk]]) 13:31, 22 October 2010 (UTC)		:: This issue is going to generate quite some talk so I suggest we discuss what to do and how it's going to work on at [[M3P_talk:Current events]]. Eventually we'll also action whatever needs to be done on the [[M3P:To_Do_list#Events_Calendar_.28urgent.29\|To Do list]] --[[User:Tonisant\|Toni Sant]] ([[User talk:Tonisant\|talk]]) 13:31, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Tonisant: /* Mediawiki */ minor styling

2016-04-02T08:29:32Z

Mediawiki: minor styling

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	* FOOTER: We seem to have acquired a rather large grey banner at the bottom of the screen. This grows in size on some pages and is rather noticeable and unnecessary since it merely brings up the footer to be always on screen. Can we return to having the footer simply at the bottom of each page rather than at the bottom of the screen in grey? Thanks! :-) --[[User:Tonisant\|Toni Sant]] ([[User talk:Tonisant\|talk]]) 09:45, 27 October 2015 (UTC)		* FOOTER: We seem to have acquired a rather large grey banner at the bottom of the screen. This grows in size on some pages and is rather noticeable and unnecessary since it merely brings up the footer to be always on screen. Can we return to having the footer simply at the bottom of each page rather than at the bottom of the screen in grey? Thanks! :-) --[[User:Tonisant\|Toni Sant]] ([[User talk:Tonisant\|talk]]) 09:45, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

	* CALENDAR OF EVENTS: there is a need for a calendar of events...so as a quick fix for now, we created pages for Music Events in malta for each month, day-by-day, there is October, nov and dec for now.		* CALENDAR OF EVENTS: there is a need for a calendar of events...so as a quick fix for now, we created pages for Music Events in malta for each month, day-by-day, there is October, nov and dec for now. we are working to find a better solution for this...perhaps one as in wikipwedia
	we are working to find a better solution for this...perhaps one as in wikipwedia
	watch this space . [[User:Tonygrimaud\|Tony Grimaud]]([[Talk:Tonygrimaud\|talk]]) 13:18, 22 October 2010 (UTC)		watch this space . [[User:Tonygrimaud\|Tony Grimaud]]([[Talk:Tonygrimaud\|talk]]) 13:18, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

	: This issue is going to generate quite some talk so I suggest we discuss what to do and how it's going to work on at [[M3P_talk:Current events]]. Eventually we'll also action whatever needs to be done on the [[M3P:To_Do_list#Events_Calendar_.28urgent.29\|To Do list]] --[[User:Tonisant\|Toni Sant]] ([[User talk:Tonisant\|talk]]) 13:31, 22 October 2010 (UTC)		:: This issue is going to generate quite some talk so I suggest we discuss what to do and how it's going to work on at [[M3P_talk:Current events]]. Eventually we'll also action whatever needs to be done on the [[M3P:To_Do_list#Events_Calendar_.28urgent.29\|To Do list]] --[[User:Tonisant\|Toni Sant]] ([[User talk:Tonisant\|talk]]) 13:31, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

	==Wordpress==		==Wordpress==

Tonisant: /* Mediawiki */ calendar of events

2016-04-02T08:27:54Z

Mediawiki: calendar of events

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	* FOOTER: We seem to have acquired a rather large grey banner at the bottom of the screen. This grows in size on some pages and is rather noticeable and unnecessary since it merely brings up the footer to be always on screen. Can we return to having the footer simply at the bottom of each page rather than at the bottom of the screen in grey? Thanks! :-) --[[User:Tonisant\|Toni Sant]] ([[User talk:Tonisant\|talk]]) 09:45, 27 October 2015 (UTC)		* FOOTER: We seem to have acquired a rather large grey banner at the bottom of the screen. This grows in size on some pages and is rather noticeable and unnecessary since it merely brings up the footer to be always on screen. Can we return to having the footer simply at the bottom of each page rather than at the bottom of the screen in grey? Thanks! :-) --[[User:Tonisant\|Toni Sant]] ([[User talk:Tonisant\|talk]]) 09:45, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

			* CALENDAR OF EVENTS: there is a need for a calendar of events...so as a quick fix for now, we created pages for Music Events in malta for each month, day-by-day, there is October, nov and dec for now.
			we are working to find a better solution for this...perhaps one as in wikipwedia
			watch this space . [[User:Tonygrimaud\|Tony Grimaud]]([[Talk:Tonygrimaud\|talk]]) 13:18, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

			: This issue is going to generate quite some talk so I suggest we discuss what to do and how it's going to work on at [[M3P_talk:Current events]]. Eventually we'll also action whatever needs to be done on the [[M3P:To_Do_list#Events_Calendar_.28urgent.29\|To Do list]] --[[User:Tonisant\|Toni Sant]] ([[User talk:Tonisant\|talk]]) 13:31, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

	==Wordpress==		==Wordpress==

Tonisant: Created page with "'''The M3P website (not just the wiki) is being redesigned in 2016. It therefore seems appropriate to collect notes with suggestions/requests for changes/inclusions from vario..."

2016-04-02T08:23:18Z

Created page with "'''The M3P website (not just the wiki) is being redesigned in 2016. It therefore seems appropriate to collect notes with suggestions/requests for changes/inclusions from vario..."

New page

'''The M3P website (not just the wiki) is being redesigned in 2016. It therefore seems appropriate to collect notes with suggestions/requests for changes/inclusions from various talk pages around the wiki.'''

The two main sections relate to the wiki (Mediawiki) and the general landing pages (Wordpress) but there's also a section for general considerations that crosses both platforms:

==Mediawiki==
* MAIN PAGE BANNER: The banner on the Main Page will need some work so as to fit mobile layouts, and we may be doing some tweaking to the style and other visual items as we progress. Note: I have been playing with a version of this at [[User:stephensd/Sandbox/TestMain]], which incorporates some of the artwork we explored earlier, and improves the viewing experience considerably for mobile devices [[User:Stephensd|Stephensd]] ([[User talk:Stephensd|talk]]) 10:19, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

* FOOTER: We seem to have acquired a rather large grey banner at the bottom of the screen. This grows in size on some pages and is rather noticeable and unnecessary since it merely brings up the footer to be always on screen. Can we return to having the footer simply at the bottom of each page rather than at the bottom of the screen in grey? Thanks! :-) --[[User:Tonisant|Toni Sant]] ([[User talk:Tonisant|talk]]) 09:45, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

==Wordpress==
Work on the Wordpress site for the landing pages is taking place on [http://www.maltamedia.net maltamedia.net] until it is migrated or integrated to the main URL/s. --[[User:Tonisant|Toni Sant]] ([[User talk:Tonisant|talk]]) 08:23, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

==General considerations==
===Facebook integration===
We need to add a FB like box to the main page and/or to the landing page but first we must install [http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/Iframe this widget] to enable the inclusion of the iframe. Width, height and connection number may need to be adjusted too. Here's the code for the M3P FB like box:

* installed Widgets extension, and have created [[Widget:Iframe]] container page [[User:Stephensd|Stephensd]] 16:36, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

<nowiki>
<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?id=151613981521442&width=570&connections=10&stream=false&header=false&height=165"
scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:570px; height:165px;" allowTransparency="true">
</iframe>
</nowiki>

Integrating FB ID login on the wiki is (as per Ds' suggestion) via the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FBConnect FBConnect extension] is probably also a good idea. --[[User:Tonisant|Toni Sant]] ([[User talk:Tonisant|talk]]) 10:33, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
* I'm tracking this via its home page and twitter feed and will go ahead once the ext seems stable enough for use. It may not be too long [[User:Stephensd|Stephensd]] 16:39, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

=== Contact page and emails ===
* We should probably avoid exposing email addresses as these are routinely harvested for spam! A work around is to have them obfuscated through javascript (extension?) or simply use an online contact form where no email address appears in public. --[[User:Tonisant|Toni Sant]] ([[User talk:Tonisant|talk]]) 09:38, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

* The Contact Us link on the front page currently points to my personal online contact form. We obviously need to amend this soon. --[[User:Tonisant|Toni Sant]] ([[User talk:Tonisant|talk]]) 12:06, 7 October 2010 (UTC)