Web Site Updates

03 September 2010 by Paul Rhoades

Spent a happy couple of hours this evening trying to de-clutter the home page and structure the news sections a little better. I've also made more of a feature of the photo's section and will be spending some time over the next few days of automating the upload process so that members can share their Scunthorpe photos with other readers. I've also added two search engines to the home page, one to search the content on Visit Scunthorpe and a couple of other related web sites, and a second search facility to allow the public to get in touch with their local councillors. The Google search will search all content on VisitScunthorpe.com but does have the ability to extend that search on to other external web sites. Any one who has a none commercial Scunthorpe / North Lincolnshire related web site which they would like including, leave a comment and I'll get in touch. I'm quite proud of the councillor search, I wrote it a little while ago and it should allow you to easily and quickly find out who your councillor is. While doing the search algorithms, I also added a phonetics match (for miss spelled names) and also the ability to search for councillors with a specific roll or responsibility within the council. For example, if you wanted to know which councillors were members of the planning committee, you could just type the word planning in to the councillor search box and it (should) list you all members of the planning committee! As with all these things the program's only as good as the data its searching so if any one does have any amendments please do drop an email to thoades@hotmail.com and I'll get the system updated accordingly.


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[-]Comments hidden, click to expand. (1|0) By shoodabean 2 years ago (1|0)Rated: Great!
I like the look of the homepage, like you say de-cluttered. It also renders properly in firefox now, so thanks for that :)

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[-]Comments hidden, click to expand. (1|0) By shoodabean 2 years ago (1|0)Rated: OK
perhaps, when ppl post the IP could be logged visually in the page, might help other stuff happening elsewhere on the site ?

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