[bksvol-discuss] Re: Changes Made To Bookshare's Website on Feb. 7
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:08:28 -0500
Hey these are valuable changes.
Thank you Jerald for sharing them in nonengineering speak, for us mortals,
smile.
This is great progress.
Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
and Judson, guiding golden
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From: "Gerald Hovas" <GeraldHovas@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <john.g@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 2:14 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Changes Made To Bookshare's Website on Feb. 7
Most of you will remember last week's message informing us that Bookshare
would be down for a little while for "routine maintenance". Bookshare made
some changes to the website during that time in order to fix some bugs which
had been reported to the staff.
Here is a summary of the changes made to Bookshare on Feb. 7.
* The checkboxes for categories on the Advanced Search form have been
modified so that if you check a specific category, the All Categories
checkbox will be cleared, and checking the All Categories checkbox will
clear the checkboxes for all of the individual categories.
* Several pages for listing books have been modified so that they no
longer display messages such as "These are books 0 through 7". The pages
now list the first book as book 1 instead of 0.
* The Preferences web page, which can be accessed after clicking on My
Account, has been modified to properly store the user's choice for whether
or not to block adult content, and all pages which list books should now
list books based on that setting.
* The Advanced Search page and Browse By Author page now work properly
when the list of books returned are too many to fit on a single page. Both
pages now allow you to move to another page of results in order to view the
entire list of books.
* The Copyright Name field on the Submission Form has been renamed to
Copyright Holder to make it clearer that the name of the copyright holder
should be entered in that field instead of the book's title or publisher.
* Information about the Unpack Tool for Mac and Linux users has been
updated.
* A problem with member registration has been corrected which
sometimes caused a member's home state to be stored inaccurately. The
problem was responsible for some members not being able to access newspapers
even though they live in a state which makes them eligible to download the
Newsline content.
* Several problems associated with the form for ordering an embossed
Braille hardcopy of a book have been corrected. The website will now
acknowledge an order instead of returning you to the order form, and the
credit card information should now display correctly during order
confirmation.
* The website no longer displays a Log In link once you are logged in.
* When an organization purchases a book package, they will now be
redirected to the main organization page instead of the Manage Institutional
Roster page.
I've been told that Engineering is working on the bug which is causing the
duplicates in the new books list and that they hope to have it resolved by
the next update to the site. Their goal is to release updates about once a
month, so the next update should be in a few weeks.
I should be getting the release notes for each upgrade from now on and will
forward the changes to the list after I've cleaned them up a bit. The staff
wants to begin making them available to the list, but the Engineer's notes
don't make much sense unless you're used to reading that type of thing, so
I'll be rewriting them to make them easier to understand.
Gerald
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