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#409 2009-11-28 23:38:37
- uli
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Re: TxP.com home page
Extending Els’ and (in the meantime also) Destry’s finds:
Weblog- Individual article pages: an author’s name would be very welcome.
- Were there really no comments for “Focus on 4.2.0”?
- Please use a date format that’s international understood, like 2008/05/03, not 05/03/08.
- Hope for the Future
- Meaningful Labor
- Reciprocal Affection
- The term “Search” remains in the search input field on click.
- A search in the docs section should not turn up articles in other sections.
- A search for “Dawson” and “Weiss” returns nothing. Are there sections excluded from search?
- “Sytem requirements” should be in the left menu on “About the Software”
- “Security” should not be a sub-item of “Community Support”. Doesn’t it also belong to “About the Software”? Edit : Ah, I see, it should really be under Support, but then name that thing differently, e.g. Developer Support. </edit>
- FAQ > How should I ask for help on the forum: Each list item is output as its own ul and thus has an enormous padding (also in: “Stop feeds updating on comments?”, “Can Textpattern import entries from..”)
- Generally: List items have too much padding (e.g. “Why can’t I create a Forum account?”)
- Code examples have these much too long “funny sticks”
- There are some senseless blockquotes in several articles, worst was
<code>in<p>in<blockquote>(e.g. “Diagnosing template problems”, “widows and no_widow” etc. Complete list of articles on demand ;)
Last edited by uli (2009-11-28 23:47:09)
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#410 2009-11-28 23:49:27
Re: TxP.com home page
uli wrote:
Please use a date format that’s international understood, like 2008/05/03, not 05/03/08.
Maybe it’s just because I’m an American, but 2008/05/03 is not internationally understood. Using 29 Nov 2009 makes it clear no matter what your geo. The site is in English, so the month abbreviation is appropriate.
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#411 2009-11-28 23:59:50
- uli
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Re: TxP.com home page
Destry wrote:
2008/05/03 is not internationally understood. Using 29 Nov 2009 makes it clear no matter what your geo. The site is in English, so the month abbreviation is appropriate.
I’m fine with 29 Nov 2009, better than my own proposal which I thought would be understood as this forum uses the 2008/05/03 format.
Edit Something’s going awry with quotes in this forum.
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#412 2009-11-29 01:10:24
Re: TxP.com home page
I’ve changed the date format used on the weblog frontpage to “29 Nov 09” and used the same format for the comments. I’ve used the 2 digit year to keep the date short in length.
Whether a date goes into the individual weblog articles or not is a design point so I need to await instructions on that one but I see no reason why a longer date format couldn’t be used here. As for “author”, it is the Dev’s Weblog so a Dev wrote it. Not sure if we need to designate an individual. It is a “team”.
The search is a site search and not section specific.
I’m not disagreeing with the examples raised but I can see little point at this time in re-formatting any FAQ articles as the overall reorganisation of Textpattern includes moving these to Textbook and if I’m not mistaken they will require reformatting anyway. No point doing it twice.
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#413 2009-11-29 07:34:40
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Just looked at main site on occasion and was suprised. I don’t know a lot english words which meen “good work”, but this site looks magnificent! I hope this will help to increase the textpattern’s citizens!
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#414 2009-11-29 09:00:47
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Really good job men, i like the site.
I made the annoucement on french webmaster forum: webmaster hub
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#415 2009-11-29 10:30:18
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Els wrote:
On this image it shows ‘sort_display’ instead of ‘Sort and Display’…
My bad. I hadn’t updated the lang file when I took the screenshot. I’ll fix it and re-upload that slide when I get a chance.
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#416 2009-11-29 11:51:35
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Re: TxP.com home page
thebombsite wrote:
I’ve changed the date format used on the weblog frontpage to “29 Nov 09” and used the same format for the comments. I’ve used the 2 digit year to keep the date short in length.
Much better!
BTW, I assume you know how to use variable and if_variable to prevent that ‘by’ is displayed when there is no author? ;)
Bloke wrote:
My bad. I hadn’t updated the lang file when I took the screenshot. I’ll fix it and re-upload that slide when I get a chance.
Maybe also replace the categories tab screenshot? ‘marriage’, ‘motherhood’, ‘kiddos’, ‘recipes’… yikes! Makes me wonder what the target audience is… ;)
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#417 2009-11-29 12:26:10
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Matthew is working on a few new slides already.
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#418 2009-11-29 12:35:29
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Els wrote:
Maybe also replace the categories tab screenshot? ‘marriage’, ‘motherhood’, ‘kiddos’, ‘recipes’… yikes! Makes me wonder what the target audience is… ;)
Actually, I just checked and those two (‘publish’ and ‘categories’) are the only two that are using Matthew’s original screenshots. All the rest I just made up using a similar stylie. But if Matthew’s working on some slides to make them all more coherent (hehe, my Photoshop skills are questionable at best) then I’ll leave it for him to do. Hurrah!
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#419 2009-11-29 20:30:21
- saccade
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Re: TxP.com home page
Congratulations and many many thanks for all hours of work and thousands of thoughts that went into it!
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#420 2009-11-29 20:50:14
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Very nice work. Thank you to each one who helped make it happen.
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