Web Site Administration

Recent Site Upgrades

The site was recently taken down for a short amount of time to effect some upgrades. They are as follows:

  • Image Gallery module added: We now have the capacity to upload images as content and add them to a gallery to be stored on the site. If you have pictures that you would like to submit, please let us know, and we'll see about getting them on here. Although smaller size is better if you can do it, note that the file size limit is currently 1 MB per image. This may change in the future.
  • Repeating Events on the Calendar: If you have any events that need to repeat on a certain regular schedule, the calendar now has the ability to handle these and display them. For non-officers, as always, let us know if you've got anything you would like added to the calendar. You may also notice that the phases of the moon have been added as well. :)

Site Maintenance

The website will be taken offline tonight at about 7:00 p.m. for some upgrades. It should return to full functionality by 8:00 p.m.

New webmaster STILL needed

We still need a new webmaster. If you are qualified (know PHP and SQL), and at all interested, please PM me and/or Jerle as soon as possible. Time is rapidly running out.

New webmaster needed

I have graduated this winter semester and I will be moving to Utah State for my graduate school. As such I will no longer be able to fill the position of webmaster due to time constraints and distance. I will still likely be able to help around somewhat with things around the site, but it wouldn't be good for me to be the primary webmaster anymore.

So, we're looking for a member of the club that feels they are at least decently competent in PHP and MySQL, and is willing to help out with the site. The webmaster should also attend planning meetings when they are announced. If you are interested in the position, please either PM me or reply with a comment to this post. I will want to spend some time training whoever is selected for the position before I leave, which will likely be around the end of July.

Forums FAQ

Q: How do I post a link to a particular thread in the forums? It doesn't work when I just copy it out of the address bar.
A: Every post in the forums has a link on it that says 'link'. It's right next to the 'Quote' link. There are two ways you can get the address: 1) right click on the link and hit 'Copy target location' or 'Copy link location' (exact text depends on your browser). 2) Click the link, and then copy the address out of the address bar.

It is this way because of the way the forums are set up, since they are in a different system and are displayed on the main site through a frame.

Q: Where are the old forum emoticons?
A: The webmaster has them, he just hasn't gotten around to seeing what needs to be done to integrate them into the system. It's a lower priority issue.

Q: I've seen people do emotes on the forum, like "*Daen does a flip". How do you do that?
A: Just like on the shoutbox, type /me and everything there before you hit the 'enter' button to go to the next line will be emoted with your name.

Site Maintenance

The website will be taken down for maintenance tonight at around midnight (perhaps a bit earlier). There will be a warning shout in the shoutbox between 5 and 10 minutes before it happens stating at what time it will occur. I will be upgrading the 'Remember me' module in an attempt to fix it so it actually remembers your login.

Update: I have updated the remember me module, please let me know on the Post Problems With the Site Here thread if you have issues with it still.

Any other remembered logins you had with the site are either out of date or potentially non-existent. Please log out and log back in again at least once before you report any problems with the site not remembering you.

Please verify your full name in your profile

In order for us to better be able to track club membership, we request that you please verify your full name in your membership profile here on the site. To do that click the 'My account' link on the left, If your name is there correctly, you should see a section called Registration under which it has Name and your full name (at least your first and last name-- we don't really need your middle name unless you really want to give it to us). If it does not appear there, please click the 'Edit' tab on the upper right side of your profile, then click on the Registration tab, and update your full name there.

Please verify this even if you are a long-standing member of the club-- there apparently were some difficulties when we did the changeover from the old site and various older members' accounts were not updated correctly with their real names.

Thanks for your cooperation! Please let either me or Jerle know if you have any questions, either via PM, contact on the site form, or through commenting on this post.

Unable to post from campus? Here's why.

Some of you may have had intermittent problems posting to the site from BYU campus. This is not a problem with the Quark site, we can not fix it. BYU needs to figure out what's wrong with their network. We've contacted their Office of IT, and hope they'll fix it eventually. Until then, there's nothing we can do.

Shoutbox temporarily down.

The shoutbox is temporarily down. I'm trying to find out what happened to it and fix it.

Shoutbox FAQ

Q: How do I do all that cool stuff on the shoutbox?
A: This is all the functionality the shoutbox currently has:

Use the tags below to help format your text--

Formatting:

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[u]Underlined text here[/u] Underlined text here
[i]Italic text here[/i] Italic text here
[url]http://quarksff.org[/url] http://quarksff.org
[url=http://quarksff.org]Quark[/url] Quark
[link]http://quarksfforg[/link] http://quarksff.org
[shout]Shout text here[/shout] Shout text here
/me does something * (your username here) does something

These tags/smilies are translated into the emoticons at the right:

Emoticons:

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:)
:D
:lol:
:p
8)
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