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« on: March 05, 2008, 03:27:33 PM » |
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Please add any suggestions for forum software improvement here.
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« Last Edit: May 22, 2008, 07:34:49 AM by PJ »
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neilschelly
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« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2008, 06:40:37 AM » |
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The new website is up and I hope everyone will be able to take advantage of some of the new interactivity. NER members can post stories and when more stories are posted, they'll be able to vote up the ones they like to get placed on the home page even. There's a photo gallery where you can upload pictures or link to your galleries posted elsewhere. There's calendars that are downloadable in iCal formats for those so inclined. There's an RSS feed for nearly everything. These forums are new too of course.
Get involved and sign up. Make sure to include your member number and I'll start ensuring that people get member privileges soon. It will be kept a secret from prying eyes.
-N
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Silver '88 Porsche Carrera 3.2 is my daily driver and backup autocrosser. Actually, I'd like to drive whatever you'll let me, so if you're interested in a competent co-driver or instructor for the day, I'll pay for the privilege to drive something else. ;-)
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kpcasey
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« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2008, 07:56:22 AM » |
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Hi Neil. Some suggestions... Forum posts, Links and thread displays, IMHO, would look better if they were Left Justified instead of centered by default. It looks like almost everything with the form is 'centered' on the screen. I'd be happy to help futz with the CSS and or forum styles fix it. It makes things hard to find and text/posts very hard to read. (Firefox 2.0.14) Clocks/Time stamp is wholly inaccurate. Forum should be set to the specific time zone and let the user adjust from there. Not have every user adjust the time manually. Fonts on the home page are mixed (Serif and Sans Serif... distracting!) and too big. Should be one or the other for ease readability. I tried creating an account, followed the link sent via e-mail for the one time reg, clicked it and it said it was used already. I had to re-submit my data. Just some immediate things I noticed.  Let me know what you need help with with the forum. |
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« Last Edit: May 22, 2008, 07:59:21 AM by kpcasey »
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kpcasey
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« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2008, 08:28:43 AM » |
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When I click "post," it moves me back to "General Discussion," as opposed to viewing the thread I posted to (in this case "New Website/comments/offers to help").
Yep. Noticed that too. That's a setting in SMF that can easily be set. (Make me an admin/general mod and I can get these changes done rather quickly as I'm used to SMF) --kC |
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kpcasey
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« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2008, 08:32:13 AM » |
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PJ/ALL: I put my suggestions in the General Discussion (Where Neil was asking for them) as to leave this topic solely Solo Discussion. I suggest you copy that over there too. This way all the forums aren't cluttered with suggestions and there's one location for them. Matt: Yes. http://www.ner.org/forums has the cell phone friendly format (Nice function of SMF forums CSS). --kC |
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kpcasey
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« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2008, 08:35:36 AM » |
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Another....
Have a separate forum just for forum suggestions (Suggestion Box). This way those that work on the site can just go there to add and it doesn't detract from other discussions and people know where to go for the 'Suggestion Box'.
--kC
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« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2008, 08:38:18 AM » |
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Forum posts, Links and thread displays, IMHO, would look better if they were Left Justified instead of centered by default. It looks like almost everything with the form is 'centered' on the screen. I'd be happy to help futz with the CSS and or forum styles fix it. It makes things hard to find and text/posts very hard to read. (Firefox 2.0.14) Hmm, I thought I had fixed that issue, however it might be a browser thing... I'll look into it, though. |
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kpcasey
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« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2008, 08:40:52 AM » |
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Forum posts, Links and thread displays, IMHO, would look better if they were Left Justified instead of centered by default. It looks like almost everything with the form is 'centered' on the screen. I'd be happy to help futz with the CSS and or forum styles fix it. It makes things hard to find and text/posts very hard to read. (Firefox 2.0.14) Hmm, I thought I had fixed that issue, however it might be a browser thing... I'll look into it, though. IE: Looks fine. Firefox: Not fine. It is a CSS issue. |
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neilschelly
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« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2008, 09:23:21 AM » |
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If you can tell me the option for SMF that sends a user back to the thread they reply to, I'd appreciate it.
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« Last Edit: May 22, 2008, 08:26:35 PM by kpcasey »
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Silver '88 Porsche Carrera 3.2 is my daily driver and backup autocrosser. Actually, I'd like to drive whatever you'll let me, so if you're interested in a competent co-driver or instructor for the day, I'll pay for the privilege to drive something else. ;-)
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dhcernese
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« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2008, 01:57:30 PM » |
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Forum posts, Links and thread displays, IMHO, would look better if they were Left Justified instead of centered by default. It looks like almost everything with the form is 'centered' on the screen. I'd be happy to help futz with the CSS and or forum styles fix it. It makes things hard to find and text/posts very hard to read. (Firefox 2.0.14) Hmm, I thought I had fixed that issue, however it might be a browser thing... I'll look into it, though. Can we do something about the HUGE amounts of whitespace (ok, greyspace?) HUGE TRACTS OF LAND! |
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kpcasey
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« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2008, 08:27:26 PM » |
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If you can tell me the option for SMF that sends a user back to the thread they reply to, I'd appreciate it.
I just realized I edited your post. :lol: WHOOPS! Anyways... I could have sworn it was an admin thing (I know it's in there somewhere!!) but it's also in everyones profile under "Look and Layout Preferences" in their menu. Check: Return to topics after posting by default. I could have sworn there was a way to have that checked under an admin menu but can't find it right now and have to run out the door to a meeting. So right, now, there's the answer. --KC |
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neilschelly
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« Reply #11 on: May 22, 2008, 08:31:04 PM » |
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I just realized I edited your post. :lol: WHOOPS! Anyways... I could have sworn it was an admin thing (I know it's in there somewhere!!) but it's also in everyones profile under "Look and Layout Preferences" in their menu. Check: Return to topics after posting by default. I could have sworn there was a way to have that checked under an admin menu but can't find it right now and have to run out the door to a meeting. So right, now, there's the answer. --KC I found that in people's personal preferences, but I can't find anything in the admin section to preset user preferences or anything. -N |
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Silver '88 Porsche Carrera 3.2 is my daily driver and backup autocrosser. Actually, I'd like to drive whatever you'll let me, so if you're interested in a competent co-driver or instructor for the day, I'll pay for the privilege to drive something else. ;-)
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neilschelly
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« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2008, 08:22:34 AM » |
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I take this back. When I clicked post, it took me to the thread sub-group, not back to the thread.  A follow up. Clicking "Post" it now returns me to inside the thread to my post. Using "Alt-S" takes me to the thread that is part of its sub-group. There's an option in your profile/preferences to affect this behavior. It does not appear to be an admin option that I can control. -N |
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Silver '88 Porsche Carrera 3.2 is my daily driver and backup autocrosser. Actually, I'd like to drive whatever you'll let me, so if you're interested in a competent co-driver or instructor for the day, I'll pay for the privilege to drive something else. ;-)
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cmt52663
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« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2008, 09:54:04 AM » |
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I've been exploring (carefully) and wanted to toss in two bits on the gallery.
Just to see how it worked I posted the photo of the CM car. As a DAU (dumb *ss user) the result was not good, because (1) the photo appeared as a free-standing item in the gallery rather than being filed in an appropriate album, and (2) since that item is displayed at the top level of the gallery it displaced the Solo album that was already there to Page 2 of the gallery - spoiling the symmetry of having all top level albums bound to a flavor of motorsport.
After a bit of mucking about, I figured out that I could use the Move function from the pulldown menu associated with that photo, and Moved it to the Solo album.
When I reviewed the result, I discovered that the Solo album contains nested albums (right now the 2007 National Tour) and again I had introduced a freestanding item in apparent ignorance of the intended hierarchy.
As it would appear that we've all the privilege of editing in this area of the site, I'm tempted to suggest we agree on some guidelines for gallery structure to avoid cross-purposes.
It seems to me that Neil has started down this path, which makes perfect sense to me (please correct me if I'm wrong)
1. only four Albums at the top level of the Gallery (Solo, Rallycross, Roadracing, and Road Rally)
2. new Albums should be created as a child of one of the top Albums, and the top Albums should NOT be edited
3. no guidelines apparent for album creation within Solo, except the example of an Event specific album
Therefore we are started thusly:
Solo: [Album]
Event: [Albums]
Items: [As contributed]
To which I would add only the notion that an Album or two that breaks this hierarchy (e.g. Miscellaneous, Other) would keep dummies like me from cobbling up the works with old photos in current albums...
Cheers,
Charlie
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kpcasey
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« Reply #14 on: May 23, 2008, 10:05:02 AM » |
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I'd like to suggest a modification to the quote blocks... (CSS)
1) Increase the padding of the quoted text to the border of the quote block to separate it a little more from the quote block border.
2) Increase the font size of the quoted text to equal that of the regular post text (it's too small right now).
3) Much lighter shade of purple or just use a light shade of gray as the quoted text background.
4) Increase the Bottom Padding of the "Quote from: " line a little more to separate it from the Quote Block
5) Increase the font size of the "Quote from" line to match the font used in the Quote Blocks/forum posts.
If you just let me know the theme that's being used, I can get the exact CSS lines that need to be modded.
--kC
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