Over the next few weeks we’re hoping to finalize the design for an all new Whotopia website. While the current site has served its purpose over the past couple of years, unfortunately with the change of webmaster two years back, we found the current design wasn’t working. As result, it was decided that we’d give the current site a complete overhaul and try and come up with something eye-catching as well as basic and user friendly. We’re hoping to have the new site online sometime this summer, but like all things like this, it takes time. Keep tuned to the site for updates.
Category Archives: Website
Whotopia on The Web
Well, what with all the various avenues one can communicate by in today’s online world we thought we’d let everyone know where you can find us online.
The official Whotopia website can be found at www.whotopia.ca
We’re also on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=235964174256
And we’re on Twitter at http://twitter.com/whotopiamag You can follow us follow @whotopiamag
And of course we’re here with our own blog on WordPress.
Whotopia Site Problems
URGENT NOTICE!
It has just been brought to our attention that several visitors to the Whotopia site have had problems accessing the various issue PDF’s and/or joining our mailing list. While we were not aware of this problem until this was pointed out to us, it appears that there is indeed a problem with the site overall. We’re not sure what has caused this problem, it appears that the site may have been hacked in to, but we can assure visitors to our site that we are working to correct the problem as soon as possible.
In the meantime, please note that the following site pages are not working or have problems with the web pages themselves:
- Current Issue – unable to download issue 17 PDF
- Back Issue – unable to download all of the issue PDFs
- Mailing List – not accepting input
There may be other site problems that we aren’t aware of, so if anyone notices any additional problems to the site, please email us and let us know.
As a reminder, the WHOTOPIA Forum no longer exists so this is why there are no forums to access.
We apologize to our readers for the inconvenience this has caused, but as mentioned above, we are working to rectify these problems as soon as we can. There may be the possibility that the site may have to be taken offline and if so, we will post something on the site to advised visitors that this is the cast.
Once again, we do apologize for the inconvenience.
Bob Furnell
Whotopia Publisher/Senior Editor
Whotopia Forums
We thought we’d let our readers know that we’ve decided to temporarily close down our readers forum until further notice. It’s regretable that we’ve had to do this, but after the forums were hacked into, and we tried to repair them, it was decided that until we can find some better forum software, we would close the discussions forums for the time being. We apologize to those of you who were regular users of the forums but due to circumstances beyond our control, we felt this would be our best option for the time being. Rest assure though, we are looking into possible replacements and hopefully our forums will return soon.
Website Assistant Wanted
We’re looking for someone who would be interested in maintaining the Whotopia magazine site (as well as assisting with the The Doctor Who Project website).
The ideal person for this task would be:
- someone with excellent web site design and maintenance skills;
- be able to meet and work to set deadlines;
- take direction easily;
- work well with others;
- excellent communication skills;
- be able to suggest ways and methods to improve the existing site(s);
- work with existing site design and programs used on the above-mentioned sites (FTP, HTML, PHP) etc;
- be familiar with web programs used to create and maintain message forums.
The website assistant would be responsible for:
- maintaining the Whotopia site and associated forum;
- assist with maintaining the TDWP site;
- post current and back issues of Whotopia to the site;
- design new site pages and/or revise existing site pages;
- maintain existing affilliated site programs/software (ccMail, cBox, forum, etc).
Both sites have got to the point where they are both beyond my basic web skills and what time I personally can devote to pay proper attention to the sites.
If you’re interested in this post, please contact me directly at whotopia@whotopia.ca with details of your skill level, samples of your work and a few details about yourself explaining why you feel you would be a suitable candidate.
Please note that both sites are fan sites.
***PLEASE SEE THE REVISED POSTING ABOVE FOR CURRENT DETAILS ON THIS POSITION***
News Writer Wanted
Whotopia has decided to feature an all new service on the Whotopia website that will feature all the latest news related to: Doctor Who, Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures and Whotopia. In order to help facilitate this new service, we are looking for two, possible three, individuals to join our team in the position as News Writer. The news writer will be responsible for maintaining and posting news to the service and sourcing news items to be featured on the service. Interested applicants must have the following requirements:
- Have good knowledge of Doctor Who (classic and current series), Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Adventures
- Excellent command of the English language
- Excellent command and understanding of the appropriate use of grammar, punctuation and spelling
- Work well with others and be able to work in a team environment
- Be able to take direction
- Be able to work to deadlines
- Be able to write short news articles without copying source information verbatim
- Have some basic HTML knowledge (optional)
- Be able to work with material of a confidential nature
- Able to quickly learn to post news items to our website using
- Willing to make at least a 6 month commitment to the post
You will be expected to post news items to the site on a regular basis. (We expect this might take a total of 30 minutes per day total posting various articles to the site and service.) Applicants should be at least 16 years of age.
Interested applicants should send a sample of their writing and relevant details to whotopia@whotopia.ca.
Deadline for applications is September 20, 2009.
