Forms to set sites. Back to visits/top
After popup window shows site about to be added, close popup and reload original page.

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About the Visits page.

Considering but not yet implemented:
The Visits page has become a featured attraction of the Communications for Justice home page which has a prominent link to the the most current version. Please tell others about the Visits page by apssing along the URL www.justcomm.org

Specific format note. The main sections of the page (first screen+ ) are set up as 25 rows of links. Each row has the row number at the beginning of the row (line). Due to variations in browsers and monitors and the program design, there is a tendency for lines to wrap around inappropriately. So please check that starting on the first screen of the page, there is a vertical column on the left of the numbers 01 - 25. If this is not the case, there is a setup problem or a bug. The bug could be browser specific - please note which browser you use when reporting bugs. The setup problem is related to the total length of descriptions of shortcuts on the right. (Or when implemented the width of columns of shortcuts. As of 4/23/04 shortcuts are not in columns unless they the same length (by column).)

Fred, fholson at cohousing.org , intermediate JavaScript programmer 4/23/04

Development tasks:

 o fix end of restore message
 o calc and display days since most recent visit
 o dont update date for empty description
 o consider having buttons by empty fields activate first non-empty description to left
 o add editing features
   o move series of links up/down
   o delete link
   o ??
 o try saving, editing and restoring from windows
 o save/restore dates from file so history is not lost
 o improved file save / restore that does not require copy paste.
 o Improve "no cookie" initialization to give options:
    o option to read "About" before initing cookies; make "About" a
      separate page??  Note that arrays can be inited without writing
      cookies...  So when does writing cookies for a new user become
      enabled?  Fake cookies (in strings) for new users?
    o init from url (which may have passcode)
    o use session cookie and provide for deletion of cookie so useable
      on public computer
    o init example setup for exploration
   o init empty setup
 o implement alt views:
   o show one date and 5 shortcuts
   o show 3 dates and first 3 shortcuts per row
   o display shortcuts in user specified width columns
   o ponder determining how many shortcuts to display dynamically based on
     shortcut description lengths
 o add checkbox to allow heading at top of visits
 o DONE Consider only storing and showing one date - last date visited.
       (Store 3 dates don't always show them)
 o DONE number dates displayed stored at end of SitesArray - see NDates
 o DONE change dates to be stored in string array rather than long string
 o DONE add feature to upload/download descriptions,sites and dates to file
   (these files could be edited and moved to another computer)
   Upload
   Textarea input form, to which data can be pasted from file, on click,
   parse to arrays
   Download
   Display data in "SAVE" format in window that can be saved by copy paste to file.
 o DONE (via short cuts) allow for link to associated page - e.g listserv info page.
 o DONE put shortcut links w/o dates on right to serve as "Start page"
   refer to these by row/column. put column number in button.
   visits4 displays 1 date and 5 shortcuts per row of variable length

99) write some documentation, (always done last if at all :)
Should it be 25 sites or 25 "slots"?  Neither: 25 rows (and 4 columns)