fyi- APUG Homepage Update + a new forum for Industry News

Hi All,

I have updated our homepage in an effort to add more live content as well as reach out to various social streams online. I believe Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are a great resource to spread the word about APUG & Traditional Photography. I have also created a new forum for Industry News:

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

I could use some help in locating the latest in Traditional Photo news. As the forum fills with news I'll be "tweeting" it to the APUG homepage. With a bit of help the APUG Twitter page could be the Internet's best resource for the latest in traditional photo news. I will be emailed any time a new thread is posted in Industry News, and I'll update our news feeds right away.

Also, if you have a twitter account then following "APUG_News" on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/APUG_News
It is a good way to find out about site outages. If APUG is down, head to the Twitter page and I'll post status updates.

Thanks!
Sean

Also, as for avoiding duplicate content. What we can do is simply move Industry News content to appropriate forums and leave a permanent re-direct in the Industry News forum. So for example, Industry News could be a new film on the market. This can be made visible initially as Industry News, then we can move it from Industry News to the Film forum. The result will be a redirect link in the Industry News forum pointing to the topic now living in the film forum. So think of Industry News as a holding queue to make us aware of breaking news, then we can migrate the news items to their respective forums.

A few more homepage tweaks done such as a block now containing 15 recent posts and classifieds. If anyone has something they would like to see on the homepage let me know. Thanks

Top Stats at APUG homepage can not be re-enabled

Sean said:

A few more homepage tweaks done such as a block now containing 15 recent posts and classifieds. If anyone has something they would like to see on the homepage let me know. Thanks

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Hi Sean,

About this homepage: In this block with the 15 recent posts and classifieds, there is a an option to disable or hide it (click on the topbar). If you do this, like I did, there is a message page that says something like:

"To re-enable topstats choose "Enable Topstats" from "Quick Links" menu"

Now, unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any "Quick Links" menu...

There is one in the Gallery / Quick Links / Enable Top Statistics, but it does nothing for bringing back the top statistics block on APUGs homepage (in fact, this is another issue!, the option in the Gallery menu gives a blank page...)

I suspect you have disabled another Quick Links menu in the Forum or Home menu section or something, that should take care of it.

Maybe you could provide a link in the User Profile (My APUG / General Settings), or somewhere else, to re-enable it. Now, once it's gone, it's gone for ever...

Marco