INITIATIVES Taken or Possible

Below the menu there is a hit counter, a counter of the number of visitors in Arabic numbers and in Roman numerals.


On the menu I have added History as a menu item on both the home page menu and on the subordinate menus. This item includes the items previously sponsored (Seven Sages & the timeline of Anecdotes) and the Centennial History. It now also includes an album with some pictures from the Centennial Meeting.


The design and the wording of the notices posted for both the President and the Webmaster have been slightly revised on the home page. The Webmaster's page has been given a major revision, some features of which are described in later postings.


In the menu under Executive Committee there is a new facility that allows Committee members who remember the password to send emails to all the people on the Executive Committee with one stroke, or to selected members of the Committee. The author can direct the reply to be sent to anyone.


As you will have noticed, the Webmaster has posted on his page a picture gallery, set up so that the user can select any particular picture in any sequence s/he wants. This same sort of thing could be set up to display pictures of the Centennial Meeting of CANE.


Topic 6: Stacked Notices from the Webmaster (without recoding!)

This facility allows the user to select and see the stacked messages of the webmaster. The latest message is initially displayed, but the user can scroll thru the available notices and select any one of them.

Perhaps the most important feature is one about which the user is unaware. The webmaster or whichever officer has access to such a facility, can immediately post a new notice without needing to have the webmaster hard code it into the program.


Note that a favicon has been added to our URL; in fact it is an animated gif that spells out CANE and then presents the picture of an owl and then a wolf to represent both Athens and Rome. Each image lasts for 2 minutes so that the changes will not be distracting: the sequence is as given here:

        OWL     WOLF


There is also the possibility of having online polling, even voting. A version of open polling is seen at the bottom of the Webmaster's page.