[Novalug] Website Updates

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Sat Dec 28 15:50:56 EST 2013


Thanks for the hard work and making the site a better place.

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 2:13 PM, John Franklin <franklin@elfie.org> wrote:
> Before I get into the current round of updates, I'd like to thank everyone who has submitted some feedback via the site survey and encourage anyone who meant to respond, but just got caught up in holiday obligations, to go and fill out.  At some future LUG meeting, I'll do a quick recap of the kinds of things said in the responses.
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> When you get on the site today, you may notice a couple new things.  One, hovering over the Meetings menu item will produce a drop down of additional menu items.  Being able to organize the menus into groups will, I hope, make it easier to find stuff.
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> Two, the Marketplace -- that thing I posted about long ago -- is finally up.  It's not perfect, but I decided it was good enough and just turned it on.  Let me explain how it works.
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> First, you need to have the LUG Member role.  If you don't have it, talk to Jon LaBadie via email or at a meeting and he'll set you up.
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> When you do, you'll have the option of creating a couple different kinds of content, including blog posts and "Marketplace Ads."  You can find the full list in the left hand sidebar by clicking "Create Content" under your name.
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> It works a little like Cragslist.  You need a title, a category, some description text, a price and, optionally, up to four images.  The title should be something short, but descriptive like "Two 2GB PC-8500 DDR3-1066 SODIMMs" works well.  Under the price is a checkbox for "Or best offer."  Click that and the price will be annotated with OBO in the marketplace listings.
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> When you click Save, it'll post the item in the marketplace and send out an e-mail to the mailing list that looks like this:
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>> John Franklin just posted a new item to the marketplace:
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>>       Two 2GB PC-8500 DDR3-1066 SODIMMs
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>> Check it out at http://novalug.com/marketplace/sale/computer-hardware/two-2gb-pc-8500-ddr3-1066-sodimms.
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> After a week, you'll receive an email saying you've reached the halfway mark for your ad, and after two it will be automatically expire.  You can expire it yourself by editing the ad.
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> Anyone interested in your item can click the link at the bottom of the ad that reads "Contact [name]", which brings them to your personal contact form Mollom & honeypot protected, of course.  The site will send you an email with their return address and the two of you can hammer out a deal.
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> Note, we don't manage payments for anything nor do we have anything more to do with this than providing a forum.  All the normal safe-surfing and caveat emptor rules apply.
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