Who's in charge of the 'Try Caving' Website?

[martinb]

Just wanted to try and make contact with whoever is in charge of the 'Try Caving' website.

Couple of reasons:

a) It's hopelessly out of date

b) I've tried adding my club details a number of times without success

Any takers?

 

[martinm]

Just wanted to try and make contact with whoever is in charge of the 'Try Caving' website.

Martin, it used to be Chris J on here. Not sure if he still does it though. I was helping him with web admin a few years ago... 

Regards, Mel.

 

[damian]

It's Hellie Brooke, BCA's Youth & Development person. You can e-mail her on youth {at} british{hyphen}caving{dot}org{dot}uk. In her defence, she is new to the job and I know she has plans for the Try Caving site. Let me know (secretary@ ...the above...) if Hellie's e-mail doesn't work for some reason.

 

[Antwan]

Also when you keep pressing 'remove layer' you suddenly get a fully dressed caver 

 

[hell little caver]

thats me.

yes i know it out of date. i am going to sort it! but it will tske time a friendvis hoing to help so i need to soend se time

i don't know y it wont let you do detail sorry i can try to put it when wr have up dated

hellie

 

[martinm]

I last had dealings with it in January 2009. It's running a VERY old (2006) & unsupported version of Joomla. (1.1.8, I think, difficult to tell.) It could really do with migrating to Joomla 2.5 like the latest DCA web site...

See:- http://thedca.org.uk/

DCA are now updating this themselves with occasional minor advice from myself. (I specialise in Joomla web sites.)

 

[graham]

I gather that Joomla is now up to version 3.0 and that the BCA servers (not being known as early adopters) have something like 1.5 installed.

 

[martinm]

I gather that Joomla is now up to version 3.0 and that the BCA servers (not being known as early adopters) have something like 1.5 installed.

Yes Joomla 3.0 is now out, but I won't adopt it until 3.1 comes out.  The BCA servers are currently hosting Joomla 1.1.n (DPC), 1.5 (Northern & Peak Cave Monitoring) and 2.5 (DCA) web sites!

What version of Joomla you use is down to you and not the server... 

 

[martinb]

Thanks guys for the replies - my original post was more out of frustration than anger....... :-[

I'll wait 'till I see that Joomla has been updated before making changes......

 

[graham]

What version of Joomla you use is down to you and not the server... 

Not if you haven't been granted sufficient permission to sort it. 

 

[dunc]

What version of Joomla you use is down to you and not the server... 

Not if you haven't been granted sufficient permission to sort it. 

Surely most servers grant sufficient permission for people to manually install such software?

 

[martinm]

What version of Joomla you use is down to you and not the server... 

Not if you haven't been granted sufficient permission to sort it. 

Surely most servers grant sufficient permission for people to manually install such software?

You just ask cookie to create you an account on the server. You get a control panel and ftp access, you create your mysql database via the control panel, copy the Joomla files to the server, then run the setup scripts. I have set up 4 web sites on the BCA server(s), you don't need anything else, except maybe setting up a few mail boxes. Job done.

All the above sites were migrated from other servers too, just did server to server copies of the files and exported / imported the database structures / data....

 

[Les W]

If you install via Fantastico (one click install) then the current offering is Joomla 1.5 however, as Mel says, you can install any version of Joomla yourself although you need to be a bit techie.

 

[martinm]

If you install via Fantastico (one click install) then the current offering is Joomla 1.5 however, as Mel says, you can install any version of Joomla yourself although you need to be a bit techie.

Aah, I guess that's what Graham was referring to then. Nowt wrong with Joomla 1.5, my own company web site is running it. (Has been for 4 years.) It is a mature, stable and secure product. 

And I have no intention of upgrading my company web site to a later version!

TBH, if the Try Caving web site was upgraded to the latest 1.1.n version then it would be fine. The Darfar PC web site is running on it and I've had no problems with that. May even have the upgrade packages available on my external backup drive...

 

[martinm]

Just checked and the DPC site is running Joomla! 1.0.15 Stable [ Daytime ] 22 February 2008, which I think was the last 1.0.n release...