CPsquare

The new CPsquare website is ready to go live. Here’s a bit of our last minute punch list:

• Contact forms activated (after the switch)
  • General CPsquare contact and “Friends of CPsquare” email list
  • Foundations Workshop
  • Connected Futures Workshop
• Specific History pages have been converted to blog posts:
  • http://cpsquare.org/events/LBD/ is now http://cpsquare.org/2002/07/lisbon-dialog-2002/
  • http://cpsquare.org/events/MEL/is now http://cpsquare.org/2002/10/cop-thread-at-the-aace-e-learn-2002/
• Uploaded files need to be linked into all the postings and on the “resources” page
• Jeffrey nominates these plug-ins:
  • Flexible upload
  • Twitter tools
  • Subscribe to comments
• The blogroll needs to be corrected / updated

It’s amazing how much history and context is burried in a website.  Here are a few points about where we’ve been:

• We started out with a website hosted by the good folks at GV.net who served us well for 6 or 7 years.  Although they serve a rural client base very well with services like dial-up access, they were not prepared at this point to host a WordPress Blog.
• As the site on GV.net had grown over the years, it still had to be maintained by me using Dreamweaver.  Not easy to share responsibility with others in the community.
• During the transition to a new server and new ISP, I discovered many pages that I had forgotten.  Some, as you can see above, were important to bring forward as part of our history.  Others are left for the wayback machine.

And then there is the group effort to move onto a new site.  Thanks especially to Jeffrey Keefer and Barb McDonald for discussions and actual banging on the code.  We have a backlog of announcements to make, so there will be a lot more postings here on CPsquare’s front porch!