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hk6909
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 01/18/2007 : 6:40:01 PM
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I haven't been able to find any of the Superfriends reviews from the old site on the new one. Are they getting shut down with the move to a new site?
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Icrywolf
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Australia
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Posted - 01/19/2007 : 12:00:00 PM
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There is one [url=http://Jabootu.net/?p=677]here[/url]. Sadly, not every single piece was moved over before the new site went live. I keep meaning to do it, but other work stuff has intervened. Hopefully after B-Fest I'll get a chance to move the few remaining Nuggets over.
In the meantime, if you have any trouble finding old favorites, try the search bar near the bottom of the front page (you can zip there by clicking 'search' on the top menu bar). If the piece doesn't show up in a search, let me know so I can add it to the list.
Cheers.
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Altair IV
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Japan
110 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2007 : 1:06:02 PM
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For that matter, the whole nuggets/tv shows indexing seems all messed up. The tv show index is just a copy of the nuggets, for example. And the "10 most recent" entries in nuggets include entries from the tv and video cheese sections as well.
And while we're on the subject, is there any way we can fix the stylesheets to expand the pages horizontally? There are two really big empty black borders to either side of the page and just an annoyingly narrow band of text down the middle. A good quarter of the real-estate is being wasted. It'd be better to whack the borders and let the content columns fill the whole page width instead. On the other hand, the drop-down top menu is too wide and gives me unecessary horizontal scrollbars. Perhaps the links should be placed on two lines or something.
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Icrywolf
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Australia
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Posted - 01/19/2007 : 4:31:09 PM
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Originally posted by Altair IV
For that matter, the whole nuggets/tv shows indexing seems all messed up. The tv show index is just a copy of the nuggets, for example. And the "10 most recent" entries in nuggets include entries from the tv and video cheese sections as well.
And while we're on the subject, is there any way we can fix the stylesheets to expand the pages horizontally? There are two really big empty black borders to either side of the page and just an annoyingly narrow band of text down the middle. A good quarter of the real-estate is being wasted. It'd be better to whack the borders and let the content columns fill the whole page width instead. On the other hand, the drop-down top menu is too wide and gives me unecessary horizontal scrollbars. Perhaps the links should be placed on two lines or something.
Not seeing what you're talking about with horizontal scrollers. What browser are you using, and what screen resolution, so I can check it out?
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Altair IV
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Japan
110 Posts |
Posted - 01/21/2007 : 09:35:21 AM
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I'm using Firefox (Iceweasel) on Debian Linux. My screen resolution is 1280x1024. The scrollbar appears no matter what I do, even when I expand to full-screen, though the full text does becomes visible. I've determined that it's definitely the menu though. If I remove it with the Nuke Anything extension, the rest of the page fits the screen correctly.
Here's a [url="http://www.occn.zaq.ne.jp/cuaea503/images/bootu_screenshot_070121.png"]screenshot[/url] showing what I see.
As for the layout, it's not just the black borders, but the fixed column widths. I hate it when sites do that. It makes it hard for people who for whatever reason change their window size, font size, and the like. Barring special circumstances, widths and heights should always be set in relative (percentage) terms.
Don't get me wrong here. I like the new layout overall, and the different themes are a hoot. I'd just like to have a bit more comfortable reading experience, and too-narrow columns tend to drive me crazy.
[Edit: The stupid forum software wants to capitalize the "Jabootu" in my screenshot link, somehow breaking it. I had to change the filename to fix it.] |
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Icrywolf
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Australia
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Posted - 01/21/2007 : 10:41:07 PM
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Ah, okay. It's quite similar to what I'm seeing. (I thought you were getting a scroller actually within the menu box, which would have been alarming, since there's no frame there.) I'll look into it, and see if there's a better way to control what's happening up there.
Ironically, the scrollbar/upper menu problem is probably occurring because I philosophically agree with you, and built flexible width into the design whenever possible. I think the off-center look is due to titles in the "latest" category being so long. I experimented with that a bit, and settled with the titles being on the right as the least dorky-looking option, short of re-writing the PHP to truncate them beyond recognition, or allowing a line wrap, which might look even weirder and cause the already tall menu to get even taller.
As for the fixed width below, it's simply a function of wanting the main content to fit the width of the header images -- a design compromise, really. I built the width to be entirely visible in a full-screen viewing at 800x600 (still a surprisingly common screen setting). While you're probably right that it's distressingly short once font size is pumped up to readable levels at 1280x1024, part of the desire with the new design was a narrower text column for easier reading than the old site's sometimes interminable line length. If I can figure out how to do it with AJAX, I'll try to build a show/hide button for the right menu, so that it can be minimized and at least the entire width of the header used for body text. (The other alternative is using AJAX to automatically size the header images per the screen width, and going fully flexible, but I'm afraid I'm not enough of a programming wizard to know how to do that without seriously delaying the page load time.)
For blog entries at least (like the example in your screenshot), you can opt for the full blog view, reached by clicking the word "blog" on the front page or bookmarking http://Jabootu.net/?cat=1. This provides the ten most recent posts in their entirety, and in a much wider column.
I'm also hunting around for a 'convert to PDF' Wordpress plugin, so that people who don't enjoy reading very long reviews on a screen can quickly make a print-ready version of the review. If you know of one, drop me a line. Joomla's got a pretty slick one (with a bit of hacking), and I missed having it with this design.
Anyway, thanks for the kind words, and I will try to do what I can with that right menu to buy you a bit of reading space once I get my head clear of a few other projects.
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Edited by - Icrywolf on 01/21/2007 11:14:47 PM |
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Icrywolf
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Australia
144 Posts |
Posted - 01/21/2007 : 11:10:36 PM
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Update: It's not quite the design flexibility of PDF, but I did find a decent 'print this page' function that's now embedded in every post. In addition to making the page printworthy, it provides a clean, white, varying-width page to read from. There are some sacrifices (no captions, and pictures don't embed with text on "filmstrip" reviews like the Hitcher ones), but it at least offers an alternative viewing for those who enjoy good ol' black text on white background.
Also, I didn't ignore the thing about Weird Things happening on the archives list. It has to do with how the PHP finds reviews by category ID. There's a real dearth of options for alphabetical archive generators out there, and this is the best one at the moment. If a better one comes along, I'll implement it for sure. Cheers!
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