Hi Anne Marie. As a regular contributor to the site, in particular the help and advice you have given to others, I would like to thank you.
In order to answer your question, I have to set the scene a little. This version of the site, took considerable time to get together, during 2005/6. The site is being overhauled at the moment and busying myself trying to create a new site template which is standards compliant, a bit wider, and with more features. There are a numvber of areas that need improving and there are some things which will get binned in the next version. The photo gallery for instance will be made public, with the forum, and members area remaining secure.
The chatroom was a modified version of a flash client I had from a CD from an old book. I am not happy with it at all, and I am going to bin it in the next versiona and write my own AJAX chat client instead that will allow anyone that is logged on to chat within the site, a bit like the face book chat client.
Over the last few months I have received a few emails about it, but I have decided to get rid of it, and spend most of the time just moderating this version, which will be moth balled when the new site launches.
The chatroom was just a bit of added value, and I could make it auto sign on when logged into the site, but there are some security issues with it, and for that reason I am not going to.
If you have any other ideas you would like to see on the site, then let me know.
Eoghan |