New layout is up and running, but needs work.

Posted by Les on Thursday, January 11, 2007 at 03:31 PM. Read 874 times. Tags:
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It’s far from finished as I still need to tweak quite a few things, but I’ve gone ahead and taken Elwed’s suggestion of slapping up what I’ve got so far so people can offer feedback on it. I need to find a new box model for the comment pages, the ignore function isn’t active yet, the comment preview is broken, I still don’t have the master archive page in place yet, but it’s a start. At the moment the comment pages are broken up using pagination, but if folks decide that they don’t like that I can always switch it back to just being one massive page.

Oh, and the blogroll is seriously out-dated and needs to be revised. It was more a placeholder than anything else anyway.

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Picklemeister United States Posted on 01/12/2007 at 11:59 PM

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Also I was wondering if i could get my blog back up?  I’m reaaallyy bored… Sometimes even World of Warcraft can get boring, when dying all the time.

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decrepitoldfool United States Posted on 01/13/2007 at 01:05 PM

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I like it!  Having the content over on the right does take some getting used to, though it means content starts higher up on the screen which is good.

Sadie, nice winter hat.

Elwed, do you know who said the phrase in your signature?

Science is answers that must always be questioned.
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered.
Religion is answers that must never be questioned.

Is it -anon, or should I credit you for that one?

OB United States Posted on 01/13/2007 at 01:55 PM

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I like it.  It’s simple and elegant, and really only does need a few tweaks here & there.

Jeez, I really need to get to work on mine…

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Brock United States Posted on 01/13/2007 at 02:07 PM

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Les, is pagination what is causing my browser not to go directly to the comment I click on in the recent comments column?

Second, is the option to go to “view all comments” going to work in this design? I’m missing comments sometimes and hate that.

Finally, do you work for me or something?

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elwedriddsche United States Posted on 01/13/2007 at 02:33 PM

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s pagination what is causing my browser not to go directly to the comment I click on

Yes. Remember, this template is unfinished; either comment pagination has to be turned off or some behind the scenes magic is required.

is the option to go to “view all comments” going to work in this design? I’m missing comments sometimes and hate that.

See above.

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Les United States Posted on 01/14/2007 at 07:13 PM

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What Elwed said. I’ve not done the All Comments template yet, but hope to get to it tonight or tomorrow. I’m also still kicking around how to handle the pagination of comments as it means I’ll probably have to write a custom plugin for the Most Receent Comments feature as there’s no way using standard EE tags to have it include pagination info in the links it builds.

I really want to use pagination, though, because the ignore feature requires that I don’t have template caching turned on for comments so pagination will help offset the extra load that puts on the server. It also eliminates one of the problems with really long threads under the old templates. EE assumes you’re going to paginate your comment listing so if you don’t supply a limit parameter then it defaults to 100 or so which means on a page that lists all the comments anything past comment 100 is just left off. In order to get the really long threads to display I had to set a limit of 600 or so and I can’t help but wonder if that wasn’t part of the problem.

In short pagination is probably here to stay as it’s a good idea. I just have to work out a way to get the links in the side bar to build correctly. Oddly enough some of the comment notification emails include the pagination info and some don’t and I haven’t been able to figure out what’s causing it to work some times and not others.

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Lucifer United States Posted on 01/14/2007 at 08:27 PM

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I just realized you and I have the same shower curtain. Do you have the same little sun picture over the toilet?

Les United States Posted on 01/14/2007 at 08:32 PM

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Don’t even have the shower curtain anymore. It’s a casualty of my unemployment.

Never had the sun picture you mentioned, but I do have a Sun, Moon and Stars candle sconces for the walls. I’m big on the whole celestial theme so I’ve got plates and silverware in that style along with bedsheets and other assorted household items.

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Momma United States Posted on 01/15/2007 at 09:14 AM

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Took a peek today and the single column on the left cut the ‘too busy’ feeling tremendously.  This one I like.

ingolfson New Zealand (Aotearoa) Posted on 01/16/2007 at 06:04 AM

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Hi Les, a few comments on the layout -

On the general page, think about changing the blue sidebar to the same background black. As it is, it feels blocky and separate from the whole.

On the comments pages, I’d suggest reducing the thickness of the blue bar, and the general layout would profit from some changing to tighten up the visual look - and to make clearer where one comment ends and another starts (as it is they blend together a bit, for example no way sure way to see within the page whether the date refers to the above or the below post - you have to scroll down to the bottom of the page to check

I also feel that signatures and so on produce more clutter than worth it in a board where the actual comments should be the main thing (discussion, not oft-repeated same statements). For short comments, sigs end up being much larger in many cases.

Finally, is there a way (maybe a setting) that all comments are displayed on one page? I really liked not having to load new pages when reading through a long thread. Then again, that might have been a partial cause of your problems with the old layout.

Captcha ‘simple58’. Nice fit - simple is almost always better wink

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