Ninepatch Posted January 27, 2004 Posted January 27, 2004 Hello TCH Family - It takes a lot to impress this old computer geek - emphasis on old, I'm the one who taught most of your moms how to use their first word processors. and now enjoy my garden and quilting and making cheesecakes when I feel like it. I've agreed to put up a little website for a group I'm rather fond of. Well that "one of these days I'm gonna learn HTML" attitude has come and bitten me right square in the tucus. I've got to thank Digirunt a million times for his/her fabulous tutorial which convinced me I didn't have the time or knowledge to do what I thought I would do - use FP. After staying up until 4:30 AM reading all the wonderful information here, I've decided on CuteSITE. I downloaded an evaluation copy and I've been having a ball with it! The site's halfway done, my kind of software! TCH - my question to you is, will we be able to do a small questionairre to folks who visit our site? We're a new, small group and we'd like to get feedback on their interest in forming a more "formal group" in our area. Also, if we wanted to do some chats now and then, is there the ability to do a moderated chat? We are bringing in a very important author in April to do a conference and it would be great to do a chat with him online but it would need to be moderated to get anything out of it. What about it? Huh? Please? You're all terrific and I can't wait to get here next weekend, even if it's only a few scraggly little pages to start with. You are just so amazing and I know I've found the best place to be!! Beth aka Ninepatch in Ohio Quote
Lianna Posted January 28, 2004 Posted January 28, 2004 Hey, Beth! Welcome Home! Glad you like CSB (CuteSITE Builder). I do too. It's the easiest, 'don't have to know html' application out there, I think. Questionairre? Sure, there are several different options here...one that's built right into CSB. Just click Insert > Form and then follow the wizard. That will at least get you started. Moderated chat? Sure seems feasible if the participants know the rules. Chat can be installed through the cPanel very easily and then there would be an Administrator, who would have access to 'moderate' as the term would be applied. Quote
Ninepatch Posted January 28, 2004 Author Posted January 28, 2004 Lianna It's cold, cold, cold here in northern Ohio so I'll keep my hat and gloves on, lol! The moderated chat I'm familiar with is the model Court-TV uses. Say there are 50 users and 1 special guest. The moderator "sets" the room so that only he or she can input info which everyone can see. Each user can type in a question, see it on their own screen, but it is sent only to the moderator's screen. The moderator answers questions in sequence, releases them so everyone can see them and follows with the guest's response, and so on and so on until the end of the visit. After that, the room is returned to regular chat if that's their normal process. It's just a tool to keep folks from stepping all over each other and the guest during the visit and to allow the guest to get the most out of the visit. It's definitely something done at the adminstrator's end in the software. That'a what I'm talking about -- can we do that? Thank you and keep warm wherever you are - I've got 18" of blowing snow outside my front door and I have a real good feeling it's going to stay right there for a bit! Beth Quote
TCH-Don Posted January 28, 2004 Posted January 28, 2004 Welcome to the Family Beth and your new home! We really are like family here. So if you need anything, just ask your new family! We love to help There are a lot of us Cutesite Builder users here, so you can get lots of help with it. I hear you on the snow! In Michigan we have been getting a lot! I'm ready for spring Quote
DarqFlare Posted January 28, 2004 Posted January 28, 2004 Welcome home, Beth! As far as that chat-type setup... I'm not sure. Let's wait for Lianna to see what she knows. Quote
Lianna Posted January 28, 2004 Posted January 28, 2004 Ah, see that's cool. Although, I haven't seen the pre-installed chat scripts here utilized like that, nor do I know if it is possible with the script. That doesn't mean it can't be done. You can search for a particular chat script that WILL do as you like and then post back here. We can then review the requirements for it running and make sure it will work ok. (Very few scripts out there won't run here.) Quote
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