It looks great!
Just a little thing: could be interesting achieve (where available) the 
zipfiles with the sources directly from the ViewSubmission page.
;-)
Paolo



 >David Buck  on date 24/05/2009 17:24 wrote:
> After much work and many delays, we finally have the new IRTC site 
> online.  You can visit http://www.irtc.org to have a look.
> 
> We've create a Testing stills round to help us run the site through its 
> paces.  Feel free to submit your own raytraced artwork.  It will take a 
> little longer to get an animations round started - please be patient.
> 
> We've captured all the original information from the old web site, so 
> all the prior rounds are visible.  To submit new entries, you must 
> login. We've tried to create accounts for people who've submitted images 
> or comments but we can't be sure all the e-mail addresses are still 
> correct. If you have any problems at all, please e-mail:
> 
>     irt### [at] irtcorg
> 
> We'll address any problems as quickly as we can.
> 
> Have fun
> David Buck

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Sure.  I'll add that.

David

Paolo Gibellini wrote:
> It looks great!
> Just a little thing: could be interesting achieve (where available) the 
> zipfiles with the sources directly from the ViewSubmission page.
> ;-)
> Paolo
> 
> 
> 
>  >David Buck  on date 24/05/2009 17:24 wrote:
>> After much work and many delays, we finally have the new IRTC site 
>> online.  You can visit http://www.irtc.org to have a look.
>>
>> We've create a Testing stills round to help us run the site through 
>> its paces.  Feel free to submit your own raytraced artwork.  It will 
>> take a little longer to get an animations round started - please be 
>> patient.
>>
>> We've captured all the original information from the old web site, so 
>> all the prior rounds are visible.  To submit new entries, you must 
>> login. We've tried to create accounts for people who've submitted 
>> images or comments but we can't be sure all the e-mail addresses are 
>> still correct. If you have any problems at all, please e-mail:
>>
>>     irt### [at] irtcorg
>>
>> We'll address any problems as quickly as we can.
>>
>> Have fun
>> David Buck

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Hi. Are there any benefits of reviving an old account from the old days versus
starting up a new one? I probably used an email address that I'd eventually
like to phase out.

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David Buck wrote:
> After much work and many delays, we finally have the new IRTC site 
> online.

WOOT

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gregjohn wrote:
> Hi. Are there any benefits of reviving an old account from the old days versus
> starting up a new one? I probably used an email address that I'd eventually
> like to phase out.
> 
> 
> 

No benefits that aren't easy to address.  The new web site keeps track 
of all submissions made by a user.  If you click on the user's name, it 
displays all submissions for all contests for that user.  If you create 
a new account, then those submissions wouldn't appear for you.  If this 
happens, you can just drop us an e-mail at irt### [at] irtcorg and we'll 
reassign the old submissions to the new account.  It's not a big 
problem.  We have an administrator function that can do this easily for us.

If you do revive an old account, so long as you can still receive 
e-mails to that account you can revive it and change the e-mail address 
afterward or email us at the above address to change the e-mail address.

David Buck

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David Buck wrote:
> After much work and many delays, we finally have the new IRTC site 
> online.  You can visit http://www.irtc.org to have a look.
> 
> We've create a Testing stills round to help us run the site through its 
> paces.  Feel free to submit your own raytraced artwork.  It will take a 
> little longer to get an animations round started - please be patient.
> 
> We've captured all the original information from the old web site, so 
> all the prior rounds are visible.  To submit new entries, you must 
> login. We've tried to create accounts for people who've submitted images 
> or comments but we can't be sure all the e-mail addresses are still 
> correct. If you have any problems at all, please e-mail:
> 
>     irt### [at] irtcorg
> 
> We'll address any problems as quickly as we can.

Now that I've gotten over my euphoria:

I note that the last round (the unjudged Jan 2007 round, for animations) 
does not appear on the site anywhere.  You can click "Next Year" on the 
page for the 2006 round, and go to year 2007, but the one round for that 
year is not displayed.  (In fact, you can click "Next Year" repeatedly, 
and get pages for 2008, 2009, 2010, and so on.)

Also, the "Description" link for each entry appears to link to the 
entry, instead of the TXT file that is submitted.  I was expecting the 
latter when I clicked one.

Regards,
John

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David Buck wrote:

> After much work and many delays, we finally have the new IRTC site 
> online.  You can visit http://www.irtc.org to have a look.

Thank you, great news! A few minor things I noted:

o It's a bit strange to use the real name as "user name" for
   login purposes, that could be split into a user name and a
   friendly display name or login via email address.

o The viewing page for a round is a bit hidden behind
   the small "View Round" link in the corner. Possibly the
   topic could link there as well. Also, the images on the
   viewing page are left-aligned although the corresponding
   text is on the right side, suggesting wrong pairings.

o I think all past rounds should appear under "Past Rounds", even
   the one which is currently show-cased under "Home". Actually I'm
   not even sure that just showing past winners is the best content
   for "Home", I'd have expected a (very short) description what the
   site is about and a compact overview of the current and last
   competition (the latter probably with the winning image).
   Nothing so scrollable ;)

o I didn't yet try submitting but it seems you need to provide
   a thumbnail manually, which seems a hot candidate for future
   automization ;) BTW I suppose submission by ftp is no
   longer supported?

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Christian Froeschlin wrote:

> o It's a bit strange to use the real name as "user name" for
>   login purposes

At least, that is what I got after resetting the password
via email adress. As the real name usually contains a space,
clicking on the link in the email directly did not work,
that would have to be coded as %20 I think. But still
better to have user names without spaces ;)

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Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
> Christian Froeschlin wrote:
>
> > o It's a bit strange to use the real name as "user name" for
> >   login purposes
>
> At least, that is what I got after resetting the password
> via email adress. As the real name usually contains a space,
> clicking on the link in the email directly did not work,
> that would have to be coded as %20 I think. But still
> better to have user names without spaces ;)

+ should work as well in the URL.

I ended up creating a new account with my Screen Name.  The email address I
originally used died a long time ago.  :-)

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Christian Froeschlin wrote:
> David Buck wrote:
> 
>> After much work and many delays, we finally have the new IRTC site 
>> online.  You can visit http://www.irtc.org to have a look.
> 
> Thank you, great news! A few minor things I noted:
> 
> o It's a bit strange to use the real name as "user name" for
>   login purposes, that could be split into a user name and a
>   friendly display name or login via email address.
> 
> o The viewing page for a round is a bit hidden behind
>   the small "View Round" link in the corner. Possibly the
>   topic could link there as well. Also, the images on the
>   viewing page are left-aligned although the corresponding
>   text is on the right side, suggesting wrong pairings.
> 
> o I think all past rounds should appear under "Past Rounds", even
>   the one which is currently show-cased under "Home". Actually I'm
>   not even sure that just showing past winners is the best content
>   for "Home", I'd have expected a (very short) description what the
>   site is about and a compact overview of the current and last
>   competition (the latter probably with the winning image).
>   Nothing so scrollable ;)
> 
> o I didn't yet try submitting but it seems you need to provide
>   a thumbnail manually, which seems a hot candidate for future
>   automization ;) BTW I suppose submission by ftp is no
>   longer supported?

Just to let everyone know - I'm collecting up the comments on the 
appearance and functionality of the site.  We have a new graphics 
designer who volunteered to help out and we expect to replace the layout 
of the site at some point in the future.  Your comments will all feed 
into that process.  Some of the appearance of the site is temporary and 
is done in a simple way just to get the site operational.  We will be 
improving it over time.

As for the thumbnails, I can easily create the thumbnails automatically 
for stills but it would be impossible to do so for animation (which 
frame would be the best representation of the animation).  I felt that 
we could start by having the submitter provide the thumbnails in all 
cases.  I may reconsider that decision before we start the first 
official round so consider the mandatory thumbnails for still to be 
temporary.

I'd like to keep the submission process managed completely by the site 
which means that FTP submissions wouldn't be possible.  I'm willing to 
be convinced otherwise if the community feels strongly enough about it.

Thanks
David Buck

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