As Jack Keane has discussed here in recent weeks, the CDP portal website is gone. It, our Blogger pages and Facebook have been maintained by him and Peter Hyndman of Queensland for 10 years. The web development company that set up the portal is no longer interested in it and took it down on September 1.
Jack and Peter would like some relief after a decade. I have agreed to take up the job to the extent my skills permit. I can handle Blogger and Facebook pages but know nothing of website development. The FB page where some of us copy our daily blog posts, https://www.facebook.com/groups/citydailyphoto/, remains unchanged. Please continue to show us your cities there. If the portal does not come back it is the only way for us to communicate easily.
There are two Blogger pages that I myself did not know about until recently. There is a CDP news page, https://dailyphotoportalnews.blogspot.com/, for announcements and general information. (We can also do that on the FB page.) Please check in from time to time.
Theme day lives! Have a look at http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com/. We will use that instead of the portal for the monthly display. The Linky tool is there and I will keep that up. I will announce the themes for the rest of 2020 soon and welcome suggestions for the future.
The portal is a more difficult problem. The domain is registered for another two years. One of our members who has HTML experience offered to help but the task also requires knowledge of CMS (contact management systems) and something called Joomla that I’ve never heard of. If any of you have such skills and are willing to volunteer, please contact me soon. Otherwise the portal will disappear.
Lastly, our membership has declined a lot. If anyone has ideas about how to promote it, please tell us. We might put notices on other photography sites to which we belong. I don’t know whether it is possible for me to email people who have been on the portal in the last couple of years. We are looking into it.
So I’m the person you contact now with suggestions or questions. Stick with us.
Bob Crowe
St. Louis Daily Photo
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