Site Changelog

[Thomas]

I dunno, Google was like, hey we're gonna deactivate your AdSense account since your YouTube channel was removed from the Partner program years ago when we upped the requirements, and I was like, fine, I'll keep using my AdSense account! So I put some ads on the site just to see what happens. Hopefully they're not too bad?

[Thomas]

- Updated Theater to show "Buy This DVD" on "Digital Copy" video categories
- Fixed that update to show the correct DVD on old video preview videos
- Consolidated video categories, specifically Musicals videos

[Thomas]

- Updated back-end to PHP 7.4

[Thomas]

- Updated DVD details for a couple older DVDs
- Added all 2020 season videos
- Backend improvements

[Thomas]

- Added Disney's High School Musical 2 digital copy
- Updated featured videos

[Thomas]

- Added band 2019 season videos
- Added Disney's High School Musical 2 DVD and Blu-ray
- Added One More Time 2019 DVD and Blu-ray

[Thomas]

- Added Marching Band 2019 Season categories
- Added KR Band Show videos

[Thomas]

- Add Variety Show 2019
- Updated Featured Video rotation

[Thomas]

- Added labels for Band Concert 4/30/19 and Variety Show 2019
- Updated the video banners to be easier to read

[Thomas]

- Added Blu-ray listings for all DVDs that are available in Blu-ray

[Thomas]

- Updated kr17 fb0401, witt01, and witt02 videos to fix visual errors.
- Added DVD Bonus Materials for 2017 and 2018 marching seasons.
- Added DVD Covers for 2017 DVD and Blu-ray sets.

[Thomas]

- Added 2018 Marching Season DVD and Blu-ray sets
- Added One More Time 2017 Audio CD
- All previous band and choir concert DVDs are now available to purchase
- Changed DVD page to prioritize PayPal ordering, with a link to the old order page for cash/check orders
- Added the "Buy This DVD" box to the theater for any "Digital Copy" videos
- Fixed sorting on DVD pages
- Finally brought the sites into the 21st century with SSL! (https in the address bar)

[Thomas]

- Added Macy's 2012 videos
- Added The Addams Family musical (2019)

[Thomas]

- Default theater to HTML5 player
- Update contact phone number

[Thomas]

- Fixed videos/theater for videos longer than an hour
- Added support for Blu-ray quality videos
- Fixed downloads not showing GB correctly
- Fixed Rate/Comment link not properly counting ratings (poll votes)
- Fixed sorting on DVDs page for unreleased DVDs
- Updated video banner images
- Added content:
- Musicals Bye Bye Birdie, Godspell, Guys and Dolls, and Shrek the Musical
- Variety Shows 2016, 2017, and 2018
- Marching Season 2017
- The rest of Marching Season 2018

[Thomas]

- Updated YouTube embed code to fix full screen, quality, and sizing issues
- Added 2018 season and videos (so far), plus updated featured video rotation

[Thomas]

- Lowered many DVD prices
- Increased 2007 band DVD set to $20 from $15

[Thomas]

- Fixed DVD price calculation on the order page for single-digit prices
- Moved the pre-order warning to above the form

[Thomas]

- Updated download icons and video verbiage (Zune hasn't existed for a while...)
- Updated Theater & Videos FAQ
- Updated About
- Added "Last Updated" dates to all info pages

[Thomas]

- Updated featured video rotation

[Thomas]

- Enhanced error handling on the DVD Order page

[Thomas]

- Added vs13 and vs14 to DVD database

[Thomas]

- Enhanced video unavailable error checking
- Updated server PHP version
- Downloads now always open in a new window (or tab, depending on your browser preferences)
- Remove "Return to DVDs" if the DVD is not yet in the database
- Admin tool updates
- Added kr12, vs13, vs14, and 2014-12-18choir

[Thomas]

- Fixed "General Videos" showing the category banners instead of what it should be showing
- Fixed playlist qualities

[Thomas]

- Updated Twitter widget
- File cleanup, solved a couple potential 404 errors
- Fixed incorrect header on video podcast feeds
- Updated copyright years (and now they won't need manual updating anymore lol)
- Updated admin tools

[Thomas]

- Added a way to view all unlisted videos (for me only
- Fixed video views and download counts being counted for me and bots
- Added KR band '09 montage YouTube link (another copyright claim)
- Updated featured video rotator

[Thomas]

- A bunch of back-end improvements on my video-adding stuff
- Updated the videos page to show "Video Unavailable" if a video is not able to be watched or downloaded
- Added a whole ton of content (wizard, band11, variety show 12, etc)
- Added band12 to the DVDs (finally)

[Thomas]

- Reorganized media files on the backend
- Fixed the video opening in a new window when clicking the screenshot

[Thomas]

- Added video index page
- Removed video subscription links (they only dealt with DVD previews and were kinda useless)
- Updated copyright year (I should really get something to automate that....)

[Thomas]

- Fixed an error in displaying unlisted videos
- Updated DVDs listings (Wizard of Oz, Variety Show 2012, Band 2011)

[Thomas]

- Fixed an error that prevented the DVD order confirmation page from appearing

[Thomas]

- Added "The Wizard of Oz" to the database

[Thomas]

- Changed the picture gallery to use "d" instead of "id" for downloads ("id" is now for categories like the other content pages)
- Updated admin content management modules
- Hid category counts except for "All" and in the title bar of the actual content listing
- Changed videos page to have the screenshot link to the theater instead of downloading the screenshot (you can still download screenshots on the theater page in the downloads section)
- Fixed DVD label links opening in a new page
- Changed category-switching behavior on content pages to be consistent (page title will now change to match the selected category, matching behavior of when a certain category was directly loaded)
- Fixed watch count updating on theater view
- Removed "Email Another Staff Member" on the contact page (since I'm the only one anyway)
- Encapsulated Twitter code (computer science majors UNITE)
- Added a warning to the DVD order page for DVDs not yet released
- Fixed BAD_CAPTCHA warning
- Optimized many database queries
- Added video count and total view count to playlist theater page
- Moved content category panel to the side

[Thomas]

- Show only "All" for content parent categories with only one sub-category
- Added category name to content page titles
- Removed "All" from theater for parent categories with only one sub-category
- Removed "Videos", "Pictures", or "DVDs" from category selector (so it's just a number of how many are in the category)
- Fixed Season 1 and Season 2 titles on Videos, Theater, and Playlist pages

[Thomas]

- Re-capitalized "Terms of Use" and "Privacy Policy"
- Fixed copyright footer
- Updated code to read DVD, pictures, and video thumbnails from a different directory
- Removed playlist link on videos page if a category only had one video
- Removed "HD" indicator on videos page for videos with only YouTube links
- Fixed noscript warning message
- Added additional functionality and messages for removed videos
- Updated DVD thumbnail to have alt "DVD Cover"
- Cleaned up some javascript

[Thomas]

- Added a preview for the 2012 graduation DVD
- Moved the 2009 graduation DVD to the same category
- Fixed video-DVD linking on admin page

[Thomas]

- Added internal ability to copy videos to the Kaisonic Productions YouTube account (http://www.youtube.com/Kaisonic)
- Implemented theater error checking for videos not fully on YouTube yet
- Used this new process that I'm totally proud of myself for writing to add the graduation videos to YouTube (don't worry, they're unlisted - it's just so there's a YouTube version in the theater here, in case anyone like YouTube more than the theater)
- Updated the Kaisonic Productions avatar with more readable text

[Thomas]

- Added unlisted video functionality

[Thomas]

- Fixed sorting on adding new videos and pictures
- Applied 'More Videos' link from videos page to gallery and DVDs
- Added Graduation videos

[Thomas]

- Updated core phpBB to version 3.0.10
- Combined style imagesets so only theme is different between sites

[Thomas]

- Updated language to use custom file on custom pages
- Changed comments number format on news page
- Updated all language files with better capitalization and phpBB 3.0.10 changes
- Updated all colors (fixed random incorrect ones, new link colors, better readability, etc)
- Updated theme to proFormell 1.3.4
- Updated Twitter boxes to match new link colors
- Removed ucp_serials file
- Added link explanation to "Return to Help" links and "Back to Top" buttons
- Changed videos page to have "Watch" and "Download" buttons (uses JavaScript to show download buttons, falls back to loading theater if JavaScript is disabled)
- Copied videos page changes to featured video box on index page
- Removed "Return to Help" link on pop-up member list pages (like "Find a Member")
- Added link explanations for Terms and Privacy links in the footer
- Fixed download link explanations in the theater
- Fixed external links on popup windows like "Find a Member"
- Fixed copyright footer on popup windows
- Added link explanations for the "Return to" links on comment threads
- Added link explanations for "View Cart" and "Order with PayPal" on DVD order page
- Added Q&A to order page to prevent automated submissions
- Added link explanations to "Order DVD" buttons

[Thomas]

- Added YouTube links for the existing kr11 videos

[Thomas]

- Heavily cleaned up the forums and memberlist from spam entities
- Implemented a new KR-themed Q&A method of preventing spam registrations (should be extremely easy for any actual KR fan)

[Thomas]

- Updated DVDs page with cleaner button-filled look
- Combined order buttons into one
- Moved PayPal buttons to the Order page (choose PayPal as the payment method to see the button)
- Updated DVD box in the theater to match the DVDs page (when viewing a preview)
- Button dynamically changes to match the selected DVD if JavaScript is enabled
- Moved PayPal cart button to Order page
- Removed "View Cash/Check Order Form" (use "Order this DVD" button instead)

[Thomas]

- Updated email error handling on the DVD order page
- Refined checkout confirmation page to reflect payment method
- Added an Order # to the confirmation page and confirmation email when ordering with cash or check
- Removed "On Delivery" - payment is now required to be mailed before a DVD is delivered (cash or check)
- Added "View Cash/Check Order Form" to DVDs page at the top
- Defaulted order quantity to 1 with correct price pre-filled-in
- Removed dates for concert DVDs on order page (since they're now in the title anyway)
- Put PayPal and Cash/Check order buttons side-by-side
- Updated release dates on all DVDs to fix sorting

[Thomas]

- Fixed XHTML validation on the home page regarding the NHS notice
- Added note to noscript box (the box that appears when JavaScript is disabled) about the DVD-ordering page (which also uses JavaScript)
- Updated many video titles on sites and on YouTube
- Fixed XHTML validation on some video titles with quotes and ampersands
- Updated Twitter account to KaisonicPro (Kaisonic is now just a personal account)
- Updated DVD box in Theater for previews to have new Order buttons
- Added streaming and download versions to three KR Band '11 events (temporarily removed YouTube links)

[Thomas]

- Added KR's Graduation 2012 to the catalog

[Thomas]

- Added reminder to include your own contact information if you use the email form without logging in
- Removed the home page welcome message
- Added note for Northeastern High School visitors
- Added "Order with Cash or Check" to DVDs page
- This goes to a new standalone order page
- Use this to place an order for a DVD without using PayPal

[Thomas]

- Added Featured Video to the front page
- Added category names to Featured Video
- Featured video is random out of a small selected set of videos
- Internally centralized resolutions and formats
- Fixed 404 error on invalid downloads for Quicktime-only videos
- Added a warning for users with JavaScript disabled
- Added "Latest Site News" to the home page

[Thomas]

- Fixed all PayPal DVD buttons to have correct URLs and prices
- Fixed thumbnail bug on picture management page
- Fixed video comments forum order
- Made the changelog show newest posts first

[Thomas]

- Fixed incorrect hover color on vertical lines in download list and topic lists

[Thomas]

- Small favicon adjustment
- Changed category selector style on Videos, Pictures, and DVDs
- Added some functionality to hide unselected parent categories
- Removed "Buy This DVD" from Videos page for categories other than "General Videos"
- Changed "All" to "General" for Videos and Pictures (makes sense, right?)
- Made sure "General Videos" and "General Pictures" appear first
- Added additional sorting functionality for custom sorts on categories
- Fixed a value parsing error on content pages
- Changed back to KB and MB (to celebrate the new MiB, coming this month!)
- Updated all FAQs (they're a pretty good read, honestly)
- Fixed prices on the band DVDs (PayPal prices are still wrong, however)
- Changed DVD title link
- Fixed simple page header for home page
- Made page titles more informative (for Google!)
- This includes category titles on certain videos and pictures pages as well as video titles in the theater
- Small KR wording changes
- Moved Marching Band 2010 pictures to their own parent category
- Added / fixed hover text on most links
- Fixed picture categories with no pictures
- Removed playlist link for empty categories
- Fixed DVDs not yet released
- Fixed handling DVDs without previews
- Changed to The Sonic Tales: Season 1 to make the new page titles more descriptive

[Thomas]

- Fixed "Email Another Staff Member" link on Contact page

[Thomas]

- Fixed "Music Man" DVD low-definition preview
- Changed image alts on the gallery
- Fixed download count bug on new videos
- Add Return to Info on Privacy Policy and Terms of Use pages
- Updated Terms of Use to include KRDVDs.org
- Added Kaisonic.net link in footer of all sites

[Thomas]

- Changed DVDs language
- Updated "No Cover" image
- Changed season band DVD prices
- Fixed the playlist using the wrong image
- Fixed favicon.ico access for each domain

[Thomas]

The following videos are now available to stream and download straight from KRDVDs.org:
- The four concerts
- Marching Band 2009 Season
- Marching Band 2010 Season
- Variety Show 2010

Still to be encoded and uploaded:
- Music Man
- Variety Show 2011

And of course 2011 marching season stuff when I have the time to edit it.

[Thomas]

- Moved screenshot download link to the downloads area to have size and download count
- Tried to add an aspect ratio switcher to the playlist theater, but the problems outweighed the benefits
- More code optimizations
- Clarified download versions on DVD online videos

[Thomas]

- Fixed a category error on the Picture Gallery

[Thomas]

- Finally added the song names to the band camp and band practices montages for the 2009 season
- Added 1080p streaming/downloadable versions for the four concert DVDs
- All DVD-online (currently YouTube-only) videos are being continuously encoded and uploaded, so they will all appear soon in 1080p, 720p, and 360p streaming/downloadable formats (1080p where available)

[Thomas]

- Fixed video screenshot downloading for DVD-online videos

[Thomas]

- Fixed error handling on the info page
- Slightly optimized video statistics on info page
- Various other code optimizations
- All videos now have full screenshots displayed in the theater
- Added video screenshots to the Picture Gallery
- Fixed thumbnail handling in the backend
- Video screenshots are now automatically added when a video is added
- Changed podcast title
- Removed download link for DVD covers that had no cover available

[Thomas]

- Enhanced Definition and High Resolution (quality "nd") are iPod/Zune compatible
- Podcast shows highest resolution compatible with a device

[Thomas]

- Updated Login/Logout link to redirect back to where you were before logging in/out
- Updated the Theater's playlist to load different qualities with JavaScript, like the plain Theater, heavily increasing quality-switch times

[Thomas]

- Official site launch - site has gone live!

[Thomas]

- Fixed that annoying gray color when hovering over menu buttons on the control panel

[Thomas]

- Added Return to Help link on the Site Changelog
- Fixed "Return to" links on forum and topic pages
- Standardized "Return to" links for Theater and Video Archive on forum threads that are used for video comments and rates
- Changed first post text of those topics

[Thomas]

- Fixed quality selection on the playlist

[Thomas]

- Removed invisible "Skip to Content" link in the banner
- Moved Moderator and Administrator Control Panel links
- More minor language changes
- Updated FAQs even further
- Changed quality switcher in Theater to be much faster
- Updated compatibility with javascript-less browsers

[Thomas]

- Minor language changes
- Fixed seeking on the theater player

[Thomas]

- Removed YouTube link on the videos list
- Removed Rate/Comment link on the videos list
- Fixed hover titles and image alts on download icons on the videos list
- Shortened "Choose a Resolution" to "Quality" on the theater page
- Added playlist functionality to the theater
- Every category of videos now has a "Watch All" link that will take you to the theater and load a flash-based (or HTML5-based, dependin on your device) playlist in the JW Player the theater uses. It defaults to every video's highest quality, but the quality selector is still there. Since most videos have different resolutions, I generalized the selector to Highest, Medium, and Lowest. For videos that have less than 3 resolution options, multiple quality selections will result in the same video being displayed.
- Playlist scrolling - for some reason, the mouse wheel is not yet supported. Also, to scroll on an iOS device, just drag with two fingers.

[Thomas]

- Fixed img alts on videos page
- Updated theater player to latest version
- Made control bar overlay (so viewers don't suffer from oh-this-much-time-is-left-so-these-are-my-expectations)
- Slightly increased player width (mostly because it wouldn't center align properly)
- All videos are back online

[Thomas]

- Standardized formats - all non-YouTube videos have both Quicktime H.264 and Windows Media formats
- Working on getting downloadable versions of all YouTube-only videos since we have the space now
- Videos will be on media.kaisonic.net (for stat-keeping purposes)

[Thomas]

- Alphabetized the parent category pickers on videos, gallery, dvds
- Refreshed video download sizes
- Re-added download options (not all files are up yet, however)

[Thomas]

- Changed the way files are attached to posts and PMs
- Changed the CAPTCHA to use Google's reCaptcha
- Removed secondary anti-spam measures
- Added parent category selection to videos page
- Fixed spacing on parent category selection on videos, dvds, and gallery
- Removed "View DVDs Available to Watch Online" link on videos page
- Removed "Only DVDs Available to View Online" filter on DVDs page
- Moved View Cart button to top of DVDs page

[Thomas]

- Updated the picture gallery to be ever-so-slightly faster
- Updated the picture gallery back-end so I can add pictures in the blink of an eye

[Thomas]

- Fixed slight HTML error in the footer for PMs and forum topics

[Thomas]

- Updated 'aut' functionality on DVDs and pictures
- Added a list at the top of each page to choose parent categories (what I call 'auts')

[Thomas]

Basically cleaned up the site even more, moved a lot of "cluttery" pages to a central "Help & Information" page:

- Moved about, contact, history, staff, forum faq, members list, and changelog to new Help & Information page
- Combined backends of those pages (like about.php is now info.php?i=about)
- Simplified header to just have main pages on line 1 and user/login functions on line 2
- Moved "Delete Board Cookies" to footer
- Removed current time and last visit time from index page and news page
- Moved donation button to info page
- Updated CSS validator link
- Fixed online indicator on profile pages, private messages, and topics
- Moved video statistics to info page
- Removed who is online from news page (still on forums page)
- Various code and site optimizations
- Changed footer bar to just have RSS links and print/email icons for forum topics
- Removed "Feed" verbiage from page RSS feeds (check out Firefox's or IE's "Subscribe to this Page" links)
- Finally populated the Kaisonic.net About and Theater/Videos Help pages
- Updated all About, Help, and History texts
- Added "Return" links to most of the Info/Help pages
- Fixed titles on subscription links on Videos page

[Thomas]

- Updated phpBB base code and database to latest version 3.0.9
- Updated base style proFormell to latest version 1.3.2
- Updated all custom code and styles to comply with latest versions
- Most importantly, this fixed the weird in-between-videos border on the Videos page in Internet Explorer. So if you've only ever viewed the site in IE, check out the Videos page again - it should look much cleaner.
- For the latest enhancements to the forums, see the changelog for phpBB.
- The style code has been completely re-written and should look "cleaner" across all browsers (in fact, if you'll look real close, the content of the page is now centered between the gradient edges just before the background - I never knew it WASN'T centered)
- This includes updated images for the nav bar and any forum functions

If you encounter any bugs please use the contact page to let me know. I'm not perfect, and updating the site manually takes a lot of time.

Short version: If you're not too perceptive or detail-orientated, the site should look exactly the same. Let me know if it doesn't.

If it looks really funky (like doubled borders on the left and right) just do a full reload of the page (Ctrl+F5) and that should fix it (on Firefox and IE at least).

[Thomas]

- Fixed the date on the 2008 pops concert

[Thomas]

- Added the Variety Show 2011 DVD to the database

[Thomas]

- Added ability to download video screenshots (click the thumbnail in the videos list or "Download Screenshot" in the Theater)

[Thomas]

- Added DVD Online link on public videos page
- Added "aut" functionality and links to DVD and Pictures pages

[Thomas]

- Added KR Marching Band 2011 stuff

[Thomas]

- Updated contact information.

[Thomas]

- Added functionality for DVD-online videos for DVDs not released yet in preparation for the 2011 marching season.

[Thomas]

- Fixed an error on YouTube links for non-widescreen videos
- Added YouTube links for all Achievement Hunter and Miscellaneous videos (click the link on the Videos page to go to YouTube, or click the link in the Theater to stay on the site)
- Restored KR Band 2009 DVD online using YouTube

[Thomas]

- Fixed centering on YouTube videos

[Thomas]

- Changed to XHTML Transitional to allow for YouTube embeds in the Theater
- Added YouTube option for Sonic 4 Speed video, option to come for all other videos
- Fixed validation on DVDs page

[Thomas]

- Changed the podcast to retrieve the highest resolution available of a video instead of the highest resolution compatible with portable devices (which didn't work anyway)

[Thomas]

- Removed "key folder" functionality

[Thomas]

- Simplified DVD category names
- Added KRBand 2010 DVD
- Access online videos by clicking the link on the DVDs page instead of the banner on the home page
- Added the rest of the videos from the 2010 season (Bonus, Columbus Parade, One More Time Show)

[Thomas]

- Re-ordered home splash page banners
- Added Wittenberg University
- Separated DVDs page for KRHS and Wittenberg (default is KRHS, access Witt by clicking Wittenberg University on the home page)

[Thomas]

- Removed Access Codes links
- Disable Access Code module in UCP
- Changed DVDs page to say "Watch This DVD Online" instead of access code stuff
- Added ability to show only DVDs you can watch online
- Fixed apperance of DVD or video categories with no DVDs/videos
- Fixed XHTML validation on pages with PayPal buttons
- Removed authorization checks on premium videos
- Added "Buy This DVD" box to DVD videos page if the user is not logged in
- Removed KR banners except Marching Season 2010 (which will be removed once the DVD is released)

[Thomas]

- Renamed "Premium Videos" to "Access Codes" because it makes more sense

[Thomas]

- Added access code markers on the DVDs page (DVDs with online high-def access available are now marked as such)
- You can also tell which DVDs have online HD access by what banners are below Kenton Ridge High School on the home page

[Thomas]

- Did some re-arrangement with the home page site banners to make access to things easier

[Thomas]

- Made Gamertags on the staff page clickable, which goes to his/her profile on Xbox.com

[Thomas]

- Made the site banner clickable (goes to the home page)

[Thomas]

- Made a different category for Variety Show DVD and moved those into it
- Applied the bold-switching on change category to the About/Help page
- Moved the About/Help link
- Added DVDs link to the header and footer
- Added DVDs banner to the homepage under Kaisonic Productions
- Added DVD covers to the picture gallery