CodeStore Version 6.1
Ok, forget all that Phase 1, Phase 2 nonsense! I'm going to do it in "point" releases instead. The version you are looking at now (assuming you're reading this today or in the very near future) is Version 6.1. This should allow me to get useful changes to you on a more regular basis blah blah. Not sure what I do after 9 more of these though. Maybe I have 6.10.1-style releases or maybe a 6.11? Yeah, whatever Jake!
I know what you're thinking though. What's New?
Amongst other things there are now Cookies to remember your details when you post a comment. As mentioned yesterday this isn't as easy as it might seem. Cookies are a real pain to deal with.
I've always steered clear of Cookies, for various reasons. Although I've always understood them in principle I've always been wary of actually using them. Half the reason is the amount of JavaScript required for handling such a seemingly simple piece of information on so many different browsers. Well, I've managed to do it all without any JavaScript at all and, so, I feel safe in the knowledge they will work for you all.
Tomorrow I might describe how I managed to get Cookies to work. What would normally be a straightforward process was complicated by the fact that the forms aren't submitted in the normal way. For now though, I hope you enjoy the changes.
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Jake,
Your lucky in that your audience is very proactive in providing feedback to improve your sites usability. True user centric design :-)
Maybe you could build on this and provide a voting system for any new features or changes you are thinking of making. In the end I know it’s your site and you put a great deal of effort into it to provide us with a great resource but this might be an interesting exercise
Personally I think removing the background colours feels like the design is being sucked away.
Mark
Lucky?
Somebody sent me a Photoshopping of the site where they'd removed all traces of colour (including the trademark CodeStore Blue!) and used varying shades of gray instead. Obviously I pooh-poohed that idea...
It seems that the RSS-Feed for external Links didn'twork.
XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: {Link}
Line Number 9, Column 186:
If you have time you can look at this. By the Way one of the best sites for dominostuff i have found.
Andreas
Thanks Andreas. Fixed now. Those damned &s. I wrote the code to remove them from link URLs but forgot they can also appear in title and descriptions...
Like the new clean look, Jake.
one or two suggestions (requests?). I think the 800x600 layout is a good idea, but could you flow the text round the right hand menu area, to make full use ofthe limited space available? - I haven't looked at your code to see if it's a seperate div or not.
And, on the front page, the seperation between blogs needs to be clearer. It's not just with this site- I seem to always think that the 'responses / make response" type footers are actually part of the text *below* if there isn't a clear delimitor.
Ian. I know what you mean about the line between blogs. It needs to be clearer where one starts and the other ends. It's easy to overlook this on your own site as you *know* where to expect. The fact that I've had quite a few responses posted to the wrong entry only re-inforces this fact. Leave it with me...
Jake,
I have a question. I liked the way you showed the @functions color coded and then got curious on how you did it. Looking at the source, its got a bunch of spans, css classes etc. Do you use a html editor and copy and paste the html into notes documents?
Maybe something like
@function from notes formula window ----> html editor ( which keeps the colors )---> raw html into notes docs?
I like the new design. Haven't explored much since the new release, but I like the sandbox and the seggregations. Thanks.
Veer. Look heer.
is it a bug or a feature?
Move your cursor over the codestore logo at the upper left and see whats happen (I.E 6)
Yaval:
This is something that came up during beta testing. It is also a "known-issue". See {Link}
Thanks Jake. :)
"Move your cursor over the codestore logo at the upper left and see whats happen (I.E 6)"
Jake - I took the liberty of looking at your stylesheet & found this:
#header h1 a {
background: transparent url("/rsrc/img/logo.gif") no-repeat;
}
I think you'd find the image-flash goes away if you make the logo.gif the background image of the #header h1 element & not the "a" element.
I've done this myself and it's totally resolved the problem w/IE. Of course, it really is an IE bug so I can completely understand if you wouldn't want to change it.
Jennifer. It resolves the problem in IE but you didn't test the change in Mozilla did you ;o)
heh, no I didn't actually. Conditional comments--the only thing Microsoft is good for ;-)