Current status: www.povray.org is now back in read-write mode with the 
database hooked back in.

I've made extensive changes to the code, particularly in respect to the 
user account creation, login, recovery, and so forth.

While I was at it I took out the ability to add a homepage and 'about' 
during account creation as 99% of user registrations over the past few 
years that had these filled in were from spammers thinking that we'd 
display them on the site.

Please bang on the user registration stuff to see if you can flush out 
any problems. If you want to create new accounts for testing just use 
your email address with a '+' (e.g. 'myemail+tes### [at] mydomaincom'). The 
plussed address is considered different for registration purposes but 
all standards-compliant mail severs will ignore the part after the '+' 
when accepting email.

(If you do this please let me know when you're done so I can delete the 
accounts; so you don't need to post email address here, just use unique 
user names for each and tell me what that is).

Other smaller changes: I have tweaked the navigation menu to add a 
'Login' link as I think the old login page was harder than it should be 
to find.

I've also changed the povQandT link that used to point to tag.povray.org 
to instead be called 'FAQ' and now points directly at the main server. I 
edited the QandT pages a bit to try to fit them into the new location a 
little better; I will need to re-jig them to use PHP in order to load 
the main site theme (they are currently just HTML). At this point I 
don't think there's much else on the TAG site that needs to be kept (LMK 
if you think there is) so I'll likely change the tag.povray.org config 
to just redirect to www.povray.org.

If you find anything broken in the povQandT (apart from some background 
images that don't seem to load) please let me know. Also if anyone wants 
to volunteer to update the content I'd be happy to drop a zip here or 
email it you.

-- Chris

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