In addition to the Monday class, Sensei Archie Higgins has started a Sunday class from 10am to 12:30pm. At present this will just be for adults only.

The Burntisland Club page and Clubs page have been updated with the new details.

A little late I know, but Dave McNab gave me stack of photos he took at the December 2006 seminar with Sensei Simon Rimmington.

I've created an album in the photo gallery and uploaded roughly twenty photos into it.

As you might have noticed, I am applying a new skin to the website and you might see some disruption with logos, images and content. I'll try to fix it over the next couple of days.

If anybody is half decent at graphics, please give me a shout as I need to fix the SJJS banner to match the new skin. Last time I did art, I got 8% for my exam and the teacher threw me out the class ;-)

Added new functionality to the private messages module...

Registered SJJS members now have the ability to send messages to groups of people. A group for each SJJS club has been created and users can send messages to all members within a club by simply selecting the club name when composing a private message. The main benefit of this new feature is that club sensei can target messages to their club members, rather than trying to maintain an email distribution list.

Since I did not know which club(s) each registered member belongs to, I guessed... Please take yourself to the Members Area page and edit your group membership details.

Contact me if you have any problems.

I don't know if anybody has noticed, but there is a Blog feature on the SJJS site. Blogs are web-logs. You have to be a registered member to view them. I have started a blog to talk about what interests me :-) The most recent entry is about MMA.

Any registered SJJS member can start a blog. To access the blogs; login, expand the Members Area node on the navigation treeview and click on Blogs. Some blogs are truncated, so click on the 'more' link to see the full post.

Give me a shout if you need help...

I have not yet got a proper download page in place yet, but I have manually made some syllabus type documents available for download. People were asking for this info with the grading coming up in August.

If you are a registered user, you find them in the downloads page in the Members Area.

Rab has just uploaded a couple of photos from the June 2006 Seminar.

Gary has uploaded a couple of photos for the Glenrothes Album.

More to follow...

Okay... we are finally getting there!

Some background...
As some of you might be aware, until recently the SJJS website was hosted in the UK with a company called Webfusion, a division of Pipex. After experiencing considerable downtime and then finally no service at all, I contacted their tech support to be told that the site and all its backups have been deleted! They stated that they received a request in June 2005 to delete the site, which is very interesting when you consider the site was only registered in August 2005.

Whilst this was going on I was in South Africa for the whole of January and then involved in a very time consuming project at work for three months, which made it impossible to sort out the mess.

The new site...
Instead of sticking with our friends at Webfusion, the site has been relocated to a hosting provider in the USA. Unfortunately because Webfusion deleted all the backups, the SJJS website has to be recreated from scratch. The latest version of DotNetNuke was installed, but the pages/content were missing and I have a terrible memory. Thankfully I had a brain wave; Google had cached (kept old copies of) the top level pages of the SJJS website. Most of the layout and text has been either recreated or pasted in from the cached copies.

Moving Forward...
1. Because the SJJS has been completely recreated, users will have to re-register with the site again. Sorry, I don't have everyone's details so I can't auto-create them. Once I have identified the users, I will put them into the correct security group, eg Club Sensei. Could I ask everyone to spread the word that the website is backup and running, so that we get their details again.
2. Most of the photos have been lost as I did not submit them to the site. I found copies of the May 2005 Seminar and November 2005 Grading photos, which I have uploaded to the Photo Gallery. Could I ask users to upload any missing photos into the Photo Gallery? If anybody has photos from the June 2006 Seminar, please could they upload them or send them to me at craig.jones@dulochpark.com .
3. I have copies of the videos that were previously on the site, but we need to review what we actually want to show and to whom.
4. We need to get more club instructors to post news on the website. Sensei Rimington gave an excellent Seminar on the 2nd to the 4th of June, and unfortunately (in my opinion) attendance could have been better. If the site had been active, and we had promoted the Seminar better using the site, we would have needed a reservation to get on the mats ;-)
5. Could I ask users to post news articles on: the Italian seminar, the June Seminar, Black Belt gradings, Glenrothes shutdown for two weeks, the August kyu gradings, the proposed seminar in November. Have I forgotten anything? ;-)

Lastly...
Could I ask everyone to go through the site and let us know if anything is missing/in the wrong place/out of date? As usual, any content or feedback would be appreciated.

Craig.