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Lobos

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Posted: Dec 17, 2004 - 02:34 AM

On the navigator page it would be a good idea to put links to postnukepro.com in the modules and themes banner area eg:

something like "commercial themes", etc..., even have a text link above the actual news items. This will boost the traffic straight away.

Otherwise it is going to take a hell of a lot of time before users become educated to the fact that this site actually exists - when I looked today there were 3 users on line, this is a pittance comapred to the userbase of postnuke.com (even taking into account the fact that not all users are looking for commercial stuff).

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Posted: Dec 17, 2004 - 07:21 PM

The man makes sense.

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HalbrookTech

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Posted: Dec 17, 2004 - 10:33 PM

Of course, the announcement on the main page was premature, we were holding off on it until January, but somehow Drak didn't get the memo.

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Lobos

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Posted: Dec 18, 2004 - 12:43 AM

mhalbrook
Of course, the announcement on the main page was premature, we were holding off on it until January, but somehow Drak didn't get the memo.

Yes I was wondering about this; the site looks good, but seemed incomplete - I tried to add my profile and noticed a few glitches with the signup form, mainly with an input field that looked like a textarea... LOL everytime I pressed enter to return carraige the damn thing was submitting on me! Thats the second time I have tried to register my profile on the site so I think 3rd time lucky, but I will be wating for an announcement from you that the site is ready.

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HalbrookTech

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Posted: Dec 18, 2004 - 06:51 AM

Are you using FireFox? If you are, that's probably the problem HTMLarea doesn't like FF at the moment it seems. If you click the <> icon in the text window it will open in the main window, and then you should be okay, I think. I'll go in and turn off the HTMLarea, hate to do it, but I'd question anyone filling those out that couldn't do basic HTML by hand :)

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Posted: Dec 18, 2004 - 09:16 AM

It also seems that you dont get much bang for your bucks - lots of text and not much meat.

I would also expect a better return for visitors, if instead of just a name for a new theme there was a thumbnail as well (maybe the latest five?)

Same goes for the module releases - maybe a one line description or the first 100 characters etc?

And guess what - ditto for the jobs release, maybe list the most recent 5 jobs available on the front page? At lease have it for signed up members.
HalbrookTech

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Posted: Dec 18, 2004 - 06:17 PM

Namtrak
It also seems that you dont get much bang for your bucks - lots of text and not much meat.

I'm sure we will have more strict guidlines in place for the content, much like we have, but is unpublished as far as I know, for the existing sites.

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I would also expect a better return for visitors, if instead of just a name for a new theme there was a thumbnail as well (maybe the latest five?)

Shouldn't be too hard to add in, I've got pnGroups on there, so we can open up the site to allow for registration as a developer, to give access to things like maybe photoshare so that we can keep the images at pnPro. Nothing worse than linking to an image off site that goes away, or has a server issue.

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Same goes for the module releases - maybe a one line description or the first 100 characters etc?

We can look at that. May need help with how to make PS cut off at 100 char, or at the end of the last word before 100 char.

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And guess what - ditto for the jobs release, maybe list the most recent 5 jobs available on the front page? At lease have it for signed up members.

For job releases, an RSS will be created so that developers can use a feed reader to watch them. We'll look in to how they're displayed. A jobs posting pub type has been created in Pagesetter, just needs templates done.

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craigh

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Posted: Dec 19, 2004 - 01:42 AM

mhalbrook
May need help with how to make PS cut off at 100 char, or at the end of the last word before 100 char.

here's a little function I wrote two or three years ago (my pre-postnuke days) to do something similar for another project. it would need to be modified obviously, but the logic is there.

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function process_string($string,$word_limit,$story_id,$mp) {
/* This function process a string of text and truncates it at the closest point to
the word limit as supplied. Most useful in truncating a posting to a CMS front page
where it might be continued on another page. */

// Remove line breaks, double spaces, etc from the string
// You can add to this section to clean up the string
// before attempting to count the number of words.
$string=str_replace("\n","<BR>",$string);
$string=str_replace(" "," ",$string);

// Split the string into an array of words.
// It is set to split when a single space is found
$word_array=explode(" ",$string);

// Counts the number of elements in the array
// which should be about how many words were in the string
$num_of_words=count($word_array);

if ($num_of_words>$word_limit) {

// find the words that end in a period - assume they are the end of sentences
$endings=array_filter($word_array, "find_per");
reset($endings);

// find the closest sentence end to the word limit
$x=1000000; // start with a very large value
while (list($k,$v)=each($endings)) {
$y=abs($word_limit-$k); // y is the distance from the word limit to the end of the sentence.
if ($y<$x) {
$x=$y; // x is now the distance from the word limit to the end of the sentence
$cut_key=$k; // cut_key stores the key of the nearest end-of-sentence
}
}
$cut_key++; // add one because arrays are 0 based...

// Trims the array of words. Removes all words after
// what is specified in the $word_limit
$word_array_trimmed=array_splice($word_array,0,$cut_key);

// Converts the array of words back into a string
$final_string=implode(" ",$word_array_trimmed);

//double check the $PHP_SELF variable
if ($PHP_SELF=="")
{
$PHP_SELF="index.php";
if ($mp=="m")
{
$PHP_SELF="member_index.php";
}
}

//add link to see the rest of the article
$final_string.="<BR><DIV style='text-align:right;'><A HREF='".basename($PHP_SELF)."?page=".$mp."_story.php&story_id=".$story_id."'>Read More >>></A></DIV>";

} else {
$final_string=nl2br($string);
}

return ($final_string);
}
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Posted: Dec 19, 2004 - 05:09 AM

I really need to be able to modify my profile.

Michael
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Posted: Dec 19, 2004 - 08:56 PM

mhalbrook
May need help with how to make PS cut off at 100 char, or at the end of the last word before 100 char.

Smarty has a truncate modifier for such purposes that you can use in a template.

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Lobos

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Posted: Dec 20, 2004 - 04:30 AM

mhalbrook
Are you using FireFox? If you are, that's probably the problem HTMLarea doesn't like FF at the moment it seems. If you click the <> icon in the text window it will open in the main window, and then you should be okay, I think. I'll go in and turn off the HTMLarea, hate to do it, but I'd question anyone filling those out that couldn't do basic HTML by hand :)

I have tried with both firefox and ie - I do not even see the wysiwig and all the fields are input boxes and not text fields so I cannot add my information... Also I have emailed you guys about this a few times and have not recieved any answer, no awkowledgement of my query, not even a thankyou...

I commend the idea behind this site, but you need to work through some issues as I have found my time there to be very frustrating... I understand that the announcement was premature, but you should take steps to tell people visiting the site that it is not ready so they won't end up wasting their time like I did.

-Lobos

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craigh

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Posted: Dec 20, 2004 - 02:36 PM

shouldn't there be a rather obvious link to postnuke.com somewhere on the site? perhaps I'm blind. I've been blind before - or so my wife tells me. :mrgreen:
HalbrookTech

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Posted: Dec 20, 2004 - 07:06 PM

Top left hand corner..

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