It’s a relatively slow process.  I upload a batch of photos, but each must be individually titled (and preferably captioned), so it’s one image at a time moving over to the Photos page on the site.

I arbitrarily started with Reunion 2004 photos since Bill had already created a category for that.  Ron Biancosino’s were the first photos uploaded.  Fortunately, he labeled his photos with the names of the people in them.

Be patient.  I’m new at CMS, but it’s getting easier as I go along and Bill picks me up when I stumble.

(Just as well. It wasn’t the world’s most modern any longer, and Phillip hated it because he couldn’t connect from here to Apple’s servers via his VPN, meaning he couldn’t get any work done when he visited.)

While I’m back online — using just my wireless router, which I originally had tethered to my wired router — the e-mail server running the Rimbach listserv remains grounded until a new router arrives sometime next week.

I’ll get the list back up as soon as possible.

Updated the Forums module from v2.1.0 to v2.2.1.

For now, it contains only three items, some stuff I’d forgotten about from the old site. If you have other items you think would be appropriate, please send them along, and we’ll get them posted.

You might say this is the central communications area of this site, a place where members can meet and share information about any topic.

It also serves up official reunion news, and hosts discussions about those plans.

There are a number of things about the forums you should know:

1. The forum’s membership area (the “Your Control Panel” link at the top of the screen) acts as a central information area about our members. You are urged to fill out this area as much as possible - or as much as you see fit - so others can view it and find out more about you. It’s a great way for new members to find old friends.

You can also set your information so it will not be visible in such lists. The option is yours.

2. RSS feeds abound. You can subscribe to the whole forum feed, or just the feed of a particular forum area.

3. You can have the system email you when someone has posted in a topic area you have posted in.

4. Of course, you can upload your own avatar. The dimension limit is 100x100 pixels, and the file limit is 10K.

5. You can upload a photo to accompany a topic post. There are limits to the number of photos and total file size.

IMPORTANT: This function is not intended as a mechanism for the display of your favorite photos. If you have several photos you want others to see: 1) e-mail them to Glenn Miller so he can post them in the gallery area; 2) simply post a link to them on your ISP’s server or other server; or 3) post a link to them on Flickr, etc. Abuses of this function will be deleted.

6. The forums also act as the commenting area for our bloggers. Links to comments from the blog pages take readers to this area.

7. The forums’ membership profile settings area allows members to enter a variety of information about themselves and should be used as a “Rimbach vets membership list.” Site members can view a list of site members, then click on an individual’s name to see the details he or she has entered. Note: Individual users can opt to leave their names off the site membership list.

8. You can use membership settings to make your own signature for posts, add a photo to your profile, and create an avatar.

9. You can add polls to topics.

10. Lousy speller? Don’t worry, you can spellcheck your entries before posting them.

Our forums are a powerful feature of our site. Explore them and see what they can do for you.

Hat Tip: Jack Bernazzani for alerting me to the problem and helping with testing for the fix.