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Updates
> Update Archive
> Detailed Changes July 2002
(currently open)
Previous detailed changes to AbleStable®:
July 2002
Recent
changes to AbleStable® made over the calendar
month of July 2002 are listed below. Maintenance entries
are in black text, new content is highlighted:
Last change of month made:
31 July 2002
•
New Review: MemberTies™,
the club membership software application is reviewed
at AbleStable®
• New special offer links for MemberTies™
at Myrro
International's Partner Profile page
• The Partner
Centre now has a link to show the full list of
the most popular Creative Areas by volume of search
results at AbleStable®
• General maintenance schedule including: site-wide
link check; external link check; search indexing;
and server performance monitoring.
July
• The Member
Area has a completely redesigned colour scheme
to aid readability.
• News Update:
News Centre.
• New Article:
Preventing
Internet fraud.
• Server temporarily
down: At 9.15pm (GMT) 25 July we lost all
connectivity to our primary network due to all fibres
to our service being affected by an outage at a BT
(British Telecom) exchange at which all our servers'
lines terminate for backbone connection. Despite having
multiple fibres running into our servers' building
as the problem was related to BT, the failure of a
batch of their megastream bearers at the exchange
resulted in a complete traffic breakdown. While all
our servers and services were working without any
issues, all traffic into and out of our network was
stopped. BT resolved the problem at about 1.30am (GMT)
26 July resulting in just over 3 hours of downtime.
We apologise to all our users who attempted to visit
our site during this period.
• New Article:
Boys
and Buttons: Reflections
on the fascination of gadgets, the power of the visual,
and the politics of creativity.
• Feedback:
Exhibitions Area: have
your say on a new community exhibitions area at
AbleStable®.
• Updates (this page): minor additions to the
Update Summary.
• New Article:
The
tale of two domains and a donkey
• Article and Review subject centres: summaries
added to all links.
• General maintenance: site-wide link check;
external link check; internal search engine indexing;
and server performance monitoring.
• News Update:
News Centre.
• Screenshots:
Press Centre: Additional
homepage screenshots available for press and media.
• Member
Centre: Creative Areas listed by volume of searches.
Minor changes in colour design.
• New Article:
Web
Site Development: An Introduction
• Updates page: minor design improvements.
• Home: removal
of Flash welcome movie to significantly improve download
speed.
• Expanded
Web
links
• Server error delivering Member Profile Simona
Ceci corrected.
• Updates page: minor layout changes.
• Error pages: minor coding errors corrected.
• New Article:
Search
Engines and Directories: Submission Guidelines
• General maintenance schedule including: site-wide
link check; external link check; search indexing;
and server performance monitoring.
• News Update:
News Centre.
• Feedback forms improved with the addition of
contact options.
• All three Sample Profiles now carry professional
status definitions and display large format sample
images when clicked: A Big Media Company; Independent
Developer; Independent Artist.
•
Improved
General FAQ's
• Broken link to download e-book reported
and corrected. The
Burial of Georgio Sánchez is now available
for download.
• Broken image links corrected on home page,
error pages and mailing list.
• New Article:
Folk
Music: First Contact
• Minor improvements to the Member
Registration profile form (additional guidance
before section relating to large companies and organisations).
• General maintenance schedule including: site-wide
link check; external link check; search indexing;
and server performance monitoring.
• Site-wide launch of AbleStable®
beta.
• www.ablestable.info
now redirects traffic generated by search engines
and external site link to www.ablestable.com. All
functionality (Member and Partner registration etc)
is now transferred to www.ablestable.com. www.ablestable.info
will function as a standby and problem reporting site
should any unforeseen difficulties occur with our
central domain or site servers.
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News
about AbleStable®
Member
Area: Colour Scheme Altered (28 July 02)
As a result of constructive feedback from some of
our Members we have changed the colour scheme of the
Member Area at AbleStable®. The new colours
provide a clearer reading environment. We hope you
like the changes.
Exhibitions Area (22 July 02)
AbleStable® has begun developing a new
Exhibitions Area. The Exhibitions Area will be a carefully
curated forum of permanent and short-term on-line
exhibitions that anyone may freely submit work for.
This initiative is part of our Community Development
Policy.
If you'd like to help make the Exhibitions Area at
AbleStable® a success visit our special
Feedback page
where you can contribute to the development of it.
Community Development Policy
(4 July 02)
AbleStable® has developed a Community Development
Policy, the aim of which is to support creative professionals,
businesses, and organisations in the creative industries.
Our first strategic policy decision was to develop
the NPM Partner Scheme where non-profit-making organisations
can enjoy Partner status without incurring a yearly
cost (AbleStable® will meet all Partner
fees for non-profit-making organisations).
We want to see AbleStable® evolving through
debate with all our users. Visit our Suggestions
page now and contribute to the continuing development
of AbleStable®.
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Major
Updates
Member
Area redesigned (29 July 2002)
The Member Area at AbleStable® has been
improved as a result of Member feedback. Changes include:
change of colour design and implementation of matching
context navigational buttons to aid readability; new
registration invitation; new 'why register' pop-up
window link explaining the advantages of joining AbleStable®;
new welcome message. Thanks to all who took time in
contributing to this update.
Beta site launched
(4 July 2002)
The beta launch of AbleStable® took place
during summer 2002.
Our beta site establishes a base of registered creative
professionals at AbleStable® and enables
drill-down searching of creative professionals. Although
extensive off-line testing of our site has already
been carried out prior to our launch, the beta phase
continues this process with particular emphases on
usability issues. A further element of this phase
is to ensure AbleStable® is easily located
on the major search engines and directories.
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