We had a couple of folks upset that they had to give an email in order to leave a comment on articles. The email field was not displayed on the comments, but we felt it might keep some of you from adding comments, so it was taken off the comment form! Now you type in your name or alias and your comment and click save to add a new comment.
Registered members, that are logged in, will see the name field prefilled with their username.
We have a whole new look. Many things have changed a lot. All of the old articles are still here, but you will notice that what shows up on the category pages have been shortened, and you need to click the title, or the Read More... text below each article, to see the complete articles. There are a few new buttons under the articles for you to use. They are on the right side on the full article display. There is a quote button that gives the code to add a link to the article on your own site, and it shows you the display of how it will look. The print button brings up a printable version of the article. The email button will pop up a window that will let you send an email about the article to a friend. The del.icio.us button will allow you to add a bookmark there, and there will soon be others for Digg and other bookmarking sites too. The related button will give a list of articles that are related. If there are comments, the comments link will display how many, and if not then it will tell you add the first comment. The comments are now text only. The reason why, is to keep the spam off the site. We were beginning to get about 20 per week that were spammy links to bad sites. The comments are displayed when you either click the read more link or comment links. If you click the article title, you will still need to click the comments link to see or add comments. The box to add comments is collapsed and you just need to click the + show form to see the comments form.
Many of the bands already know, and some of the rest of you too, but a new bands page is in the works at Project Amarillo. This will be replacing the current bands page. It's a bit more fancy, and I think it will give you more info on the local bands than the links page that is up currently. I'm still looking for more bands to add to this page. I have contacted, or attempted to contact, all of the bands on the current page. If I didn't get in touch with you, or you are not there, but would like to be added, hit the contact page and let me know. I'm looking to have the most up to date band information with each and every band and musician in the Amarillo Area!
After many late nights of banging my head on my desk trying to get the new coding working, I have decided to delay the change to the new version of Project Amarillo. There are still too many bugs that need to be fixed and I will be waiting for a newer version of the programming to be released. Until then, we are staying with the current format.
The calendar had a few errors and would not display some listings correctly. I had to uninstall the calendar programming and reinstalled a newer version.
From this home page you will not notice a change to the upcoming list on the right, but the details pages for the bands/musicians, venues, and the full detail for the events/shows has changed. There are boxes around the information. I will work on this somewhat and get it looking like it did, soon.
I never really liked the link coding that came with the software that Project Amarillo uses. It's a pain to navagate, and you have to look for the actual link to get to the place you are trying to get to. I am looking for something new and will replace this area soon!
Website Updates
