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New Feature: Comment Subscriptions

If you have been commenting, you may have noticed two new fields appear in the site's comment form. These two additions allow you to subscribe to someone's individual blog entry when posting your comment. What does this mean? Well, if you want to get email notifications when another user posts...

March 14, 2009

new homepage browse tabs

If you haven't noticed yet, we have a new addition to the homepage of mckinneytree.info! Above the list of the latest (20) blogs, you should see tabs next to the text "BROWSE RECENT BLOGS". If you click on these tabs, you can quickly browse the last 100 blogs across the...

July 20, 2008

New tree games!

I found some great old-school free games (produced by neave.com) that you will find under the games nav item to the left. Brian had a good idea, when you play and enter in your name for a high score, enter your first name followed by 'mckinneytree'. (for example: brian mckinneytree)...

June 30, 2008

tree updates

The homepage and everyone's own blog landing page layouts have changed a bit. The new homepage shows the 15 latest blog entries throughout the whole site, featuring the most recent at the top and showing a few more lines of text from the blog as well. This means if someone...

January 19, 2008

multiple photo module

The new multiple photo flash module is here! There are still some extra steps you'll have to take in order to use it - and in no way is it required or anything - but it is easier to implement then the first css/code version we were using. I'll go...

January 9, 2008

mckinney tree chat

NEW! Now we can chat on the mckinney tree - just look for the cbox chat box below the nav on every page. You can also go into the mckinney tree chat room at mckinneytree.info/tree_chat by clicking on "tree chat" in the site navagation to the left to see the...

October 28, 2007

blog brief tabbing

NEW! Some functionality has now been added to the featured blog modules on mckinney tree's homepage. You will find that within everyone's blog brief feature there are now tabs (numbered 1-3) that allow you to quickly cycle through the last three posts by the author. In addition, I added a...

August 21, 2007

new! memory game

You should see a new navagation item (memory) which will take you to a new mckinney tree site addition - games! Ok, so maybe it's just one game for now - but it's a fun one. I'm sure everyone remembers the old game of memory, where you flip cards and...

August 1, 2007

new! comment count

We have another new homepage feature on mckinneytree.info, in case you haven't noticed. Following your (everyone's) featured blog, you should see a 'comment(s)' item in grey. This shows how many comments have been posted about that featured blog. This should help everyone to quickly see when/if a new comment has...

July 31, 2007

tip - website slideshow

I just added some fun/useful functionality to the website slideshow. If you see a photo that you'd like to view longer than the slide duration, just click on the image as it is in the frame. It should open up that photo in a new window for you to view....

July 28, 2007

new! alias e-mails

To keep everyone's personal e-mail addresses confidential from any website passer-byers, I have set up alias accounts for everyone via mckinneytree.info. When you visit the tree network (address book, if you prefer) you can view everyone's new alias e-mail addresses. These will definitely help with remembering each other's contact easier...

July 27, 2007

helpful, i am.

Welcome to the McKinney Tree's [virtual] help desk. After you login you can post a blog/question and (like all the other blogs) anyone can post a comment. We'll use this for questions that may arise about how to use features of the site, any kind of problems one may run...

new category

October 15, 2010