Developing OTFA

Seems that some of the work we’re doing is paying off!

A busy fortnight has resulted in two new community blogs, Colglen and Jura, as well as the first entry in LifeStories, and a third community on the verge of joining our expanding network. One that site is up and running, we’re going to finish off the formatting of lifestories and then move onto the [...]

This week sees the launch of http://localnews.forargyll.com, another incremental step in the project’s ongoing collation of news stories and blog entries around and about Argyll.
This blog is entirely automated and collects stories from all the Argyll blogs to combine them in a 20 entry RSS feed for the OFTA front page which is refreshed [...]

Still Rising …

One of the constant learning curves for any web developer is search engine optimisation. New techniques, new services and new search software all combine to make the art an ever-changing alchemy. We’re interacting with this element quite heavily at the moment, and this accounts for the changes to the main page, the links to the [...]

Better, possibly because we have started using kickers.

We’re now onto the next stage of developing this website and the buzz is that we have three (possibly four) complex blogs to implement:

broadband.forargyll.com – The challenge with the broadband is to measure the speed of individual’s connection, save the info, and then allow the individual to identify their position on a map of Argyll, [...]

So some communities have been experiencing the following as a problem on their dashboard.

If you see this when you log in, please let Charles know and he’ll clean it out! charles [at] fyneside [dot] com

Not great, but we can only build