2010-04-08 - Heritage work update - 10 items

1. Gallery Section: There is a LOT of work left to do, but I have figured out how to have a gallery section on the new heritage: http://www.ismaili.net/heritage/galleries Four types of entries can be exhibited: news events, persons, places, subjects. When editing one of these 4 types of entries, we can check a box called "exhibit?" in order to place that entry in the gallery section. - News are still being uploaded, the news events with the most material will have to be flagged for the gallery. - People need more updates - Places need more updates - Subjects need to be better categorized 2. Youth section: - Shenny is interested in helping to create a Religious Education Section full of materials to complement the Talim Curriculum, organized with the same subject headings as the Talim (this is what she does for BUI anyways) - I have some ideas for transferring and creating games - I have some ideas for other sections like Ginan/dua teaching sections. - Timeframe is probably december 3. News transfer - I'm paying a non-ismaili contact from North Carolina who is very competent and who I just found out develops a lot with drupal, so this work is happening right now. It is a lot of work to transfer and re-organize news. Please lets stop adding news to the old site. 4, Audio - There are hundreds of audio files that need to be classified and published, I have asked Layla and Hussein, and they are taking a long time to respond even though they have enthusiasm and they asked for work 5. Images - A lot of older images are not linked to their news events, and don't have captions. It's a big job, but if you are enjoying it, you can start, then I'll give it to one of the others when they are free. 7. Documents - Now that the bibliography is online, articles, books, and reviews will be easily linked to the bibliographies. - I will attempt to add a few every week. 8. Varia - There is some infrastructure and module update work that is necessary. I do this slowly and carefully and occasionally when I am inspired. - Since a lot of speeches and interviuews have been recently added, I have started linking the main page quotes to their full content. It is a fairly easy job - do you want me to teach Inaara? .. Otherwise I will try to do a few every week. 9. Users, Forums Transfer - I can't get Nick to work on it, even though on the phone he says "OK, I'm doing it right now" I think he is stuck.. 10. Putting html comments on the front page - I know you like to put comments, announcements and teasers at the top of the main page, and it gives a nice human touch to the site. I can create a place on the new site for you to put your html code and write anything you like at the top of the main page. - For example, look at this page: http://www.ismaili.net/heritage/galleries The message at the top can be modified by editing the body of this story node: http://www.ismaili.net/heritage/node/29366