Just for fun, i thought I’d see how many meanings for the acronym DNC I could find. Brace yourselves . . .

DNC Democratic National Committee
DNC Democratic National Convention
DNC Do Not Call
DNC Digital Nautical Chart
DNC Direct Numerical Control
DNC Do Not Change
DNC Delaware North Companies
DNC Does Not Compute
DNC Domain Name Commissioner
DNC Do Not Carry
DNC Did Not Compete (racing)
DNC Distributed Numerical Control
DNC Does Not Conform
DNC Do Not Cross
DNC DeadNetCentral
DNC Dilation and Curettage
DNC Distributed National Collection
DNC Dance Courses
DNC Downconverter
DNC Dynamic Network Controller
DNC Dynamic Noise Covering
DNC Dinitrocarbanilide
DNC Domestic Names Committee
DNC Dermatology Nurse Certified
DNC Drill and Ceremony
DNC Distributed Network Computing
DNC Day-Night Capability
DNC Distributed Network Control
DNC District of North Cowichan (British Columbia)
DNC Delayed Neutron Counter
DNC Director, Naval Communications
DNC Distributed Network Conference
DNC Dynamic Network Configuration
DNC Directorate of National Coordination
DNC Data Name Card
DNC Di-Nitrocellulose
DNC Diocese of Natchitoches Collection (Louisiana)
DNC Departmento Nacional de Cafe (Brazil)
DNC Disaster Nursing Chairman
DNC Direct Network Cabling (systems)
DNC Do/Does Not Care
DNC Dynamic Neural Control

Well – you did ask. Oh. Didn’t you? Oh well . . .

Steve.

Yes there are lots of little thinsg to fix, so bear with us and do keep pointing things out, suggesting and disagreeing, it’s what will make the site even better.

For users, how about enthusiasts – because that’s what you are – and it is a good, positive description?!

This word ‘users’ doesn’t slip easily into my understanding.
More commonly encountered by me in relation to drug users. And aren’t we all using the blog anyway? I would have expected “members of the public” or some similar phrase. Or just “other users”, or “users with a common interest”. I just feel it doesn’t quite say what it means.

I was rather hoping to find an archive of past questions and answers that I could refer to, otherwise I feel you may get the same questions being asked repeatedly.

I note that the guides do not have reference numbers at the moment. Have you discarded them deliberately?

You seem too to have abandoned the different levels for the guides, except for Beginners. I think that is better, since I imagine people’s overall skill levels are not necessarily defined by specific areas of competence. What you want to learn next at any time is pretty much a matter of chance.

I didn’t find a list of links to other interesting websites, but I may have missed them. And I couldn’t work the text size change.

You said something about putting up photos – was it of the staff? That will be nice – I was thinking of asking for them before the change.

LOOKING GOOD SO FAR !!!

I will be putting some of the more recent Q & As from the old site in there as well.

Bob Holmes

Thanks for the comment.

The Q&A where you have to log in is being replaced by one which is open to everyone. We thought the (double) log-in put people off and stopped people asking/answering/ accessing. And it should be super smooth to use – but isn’t yet…

It’s next on the list for fixing – but we ran out of time to get it all working before we launched the site.

It currently does work – but in a very very clunky way. If you click on the questions – they open in a new window and you can answer them in the ‘comment’ box. (The “Ask a Question” form should be working properly – but does need a new field for email address).

The reason it works (doesn’t work…) like this is that the site is built out of open source software for a blog. We’re taking the basic blog set-up and trying to modify it to make it do extra things. So each question is reallu a blog post – and the answers are comments. But it needs some coding to make it work better and make this clearer. It won’t now be fixed til next week – but it should work by then.

I hope it’s not too irritating. We didn’t copy the old questions over – we thought we’d start afresh. But if there was a particular strand/ answer you’re after – let us know and we can get you the info…

regards
sophie

Phil