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DJ Sith - Jedi Council  |
What would you want to see in it? My recent project has taught me much of the arts of software development. To make sure these skills grow I'll yet again be redesigning the JA website. This is much more than a visual retooling. I'll be rewriting the site in PHP 5, using classes, a template system, new database structure that meshes better with our current site needs, and all layout being handled by css (no tables!). This will probably take some months to accomplish, so while I'm working on it I'd like your input as to what you'd like to see on the site. No idea is too big, small, too smart or dumb. The one thing I don't want is images in forum posts and signatures. That drives me up the wall. No flash either. Another reason for doing this is because I get at least one request a month to see my site code. Right now I don't give it out because frankly it looks like ass. I did the bottom level stuff a long long time ago. This new site will be spic and span on the inside and out.  So lets hear it! _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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Setementor - Jedi Master 
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Firefox > Opera > Internet Explorer.  There's still a possibility of this, since it can happen in most browsers. You click a link from a thread, and it could be one which you haven't logged in to. This comment was edited by Setementor on Nov 20 2004 08:42pm. |
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solitude - Jedi Council 
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this happened with opera,not firefox _______________ Joined 16 October 2004 | Retired 10 April 2005 | Returned 05 June 2008 | Made Staff 27 June 2008 | Made Council 18 January 2009 Padawan To Odan-Wei Belouve | Adopted into the Belouve family | Twin to xAnAtOs | Owner of the 4th Quesi sexy badge Brother To Roan Belouve, Nomad, Majno, Silkmonkey, Kensei and Jarhok Belouve
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Setementor - Jedi Master
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Well, if you are logged out, check the address bar. Unfortunately, the URL 'http://www.thejediacademy.net' is different to 'http://thejediacademy.net'. Now, you may have been logged in to the first one, then clicked a link to the second one, which you aren't logged in to. It could also be that you didn't tick the 'Save Login' box before logging in. I use Firefox with no problems. |
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solitude - Jedi Council
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I just noticed a couple of bugs with the current site :O with other browsers (opera and Firefox) weird things happen. with firefox, when a thread is opened with all bold/diff font sizes, the whole site is reformatted with the new font, size etc. with opera, the site accepts the logins, but when you go back to the forum, you are logged back out before you can post. anyone else with these probs? _______________ Joined 16 October 2004 | Retired 10 April 2005 | Returned 05 June 2008 | Made Staff 27 June 2008 | Made Council 18 January 2009 Padawan To Odan-Wei Belouve | Adopted into the Belouve family | Twin to xAnAtOs | Owner of the 4th Quesi sexy badge Brother To Roan Belouve, Nomad, Majno, Silkmonkey, Kensei and Jarhok Belouve
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Acey Spadey - Student 
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if you had that.. you'd also have to have another box for north or south hemisphere as well as it's opposite I recently had to put my clock forward, where someone in the nothern hemisphere would have had to put it back an hour _______________ .Lag Bro to Xanatos. Adopted Twin to Bubu. Big-Brother to SmilyKrazy ---- JATSRAD Guru, JASE Member, JA SP Mod Staff ---- The Order of the Stick -- Big thanks to Mango for my avatar -- Quote: Sometimes you've got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It's called fun.
Quote: (Random hella old quote) <Fizz of Belouve> .. in sovjet russia, cereals spit at YOU!
Quote: whats the point of growing up, if your not allowed to act childish!
Padawan - Henkes
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JavaGuy - Student 
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It would be a simple matter, on the profile edit form where you enter your time zone, to have a checkbox indicating whether you observe Daylight Savings Time. Now I don't think all places begin and end Daylight Time at the same time, but surely any "overlap" would not be for too many days, so pick a date when it begins/ends, and those of us whose Daylight Time doesn't start/end there will have our time wrong by an hour for a period of a few days. _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Acey Spadey - Student
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Quote: Also, I don't know if this has been mentioned, but perhaps something showing what GMT we are in, like under our avatars or something. good point, then we wouldn't have to ask for it all the time ... I kinda mentioned this before to DJ but he was prolly drunk and forgot a base time showing on the website.. something small that changes to what your gmt is so it shows your own time. and in effect gives people the right time for classes.. when I first started I had heaps of issues with the GMT. because of the day light savings.. my GMT is +10. .but because of the daylight savings. it's either +9 or +11 and I have to change it every time it changes. I suppose it would be difficult to fix cause not every state has daylight savings time or whatever, but a visible time upon the website would let you know that the gmt you have chosen corresponds with your actual time. so you don't turn up an hour early or an hour late for class ( which happened to me a few times ). also something for just profiles. I know it might be a bit annoying to put in but a little mini time next to their names which show their personal time. _______________ .Lag Bro to Xanatos. Adopted Twin to Bubu. Big-Brother to SmilyKrazy ---- JATSRAD Guru, JASE Member, JA SP Mod Staff ---- The Order of the Stick -- Big thanks to Mango for my avatar -- Quote: Sometimes you've got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It's called fun.
Quote: (Random hella old quote) <Fizz of Belouve> .. in sovjet russia, cereals spit at YOU!
Quote: whats the point of growing up, if your not allowed to act childish!
Padawan - Henkes
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student 
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Quote: Also, I don't know if this has been mentioned, but perhaps something showing what GMT we are in, like under our avatars or something. good point, then we wouldn't have to ask for it all the time ... _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
Want to know Vladarion? Read the Article about his life here. This comment was edited by Bail Hope of Belouve on Nov 12 2004 07:52pm. |
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JavaGuy - Student 
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Can we have a WAP interface? _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Gradius - Ex-Student 
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Also, I don't know if this has been mentioned, but perhaps something showing what GMT we are in, like under our avatars or something. _______________ - Proud padawan of Kueller. - We really are at the beginning of it all. The trick, of course, is to make sure we never find the end. - Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything - <gen-e-sis-happy> Liek, you can train, liek, a n00b, but he'll just be a trained n00b... --> Wise words! - "daer SOE me likes your a company i am having your some money for letting me do stuff cos mes the best amd i do it all meself" - Slider |
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
Dunno if it's been mentioned before, but it would be very handy if inactive profiles showed up during a search in About Us. |
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solitude - Jedi Council
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I think it can be useful. For example if someone said a thread, for example, on etquette was pointless as nobody read it, the no of views would show otherwise. it would also show if someone was putting up pointless threads which nobody was intrested in. (im not referring to any threads here right now, but in other forums...) It would also show if perminant threads or important announcements are actually reaching people. _______________ Joined 16 October 2004 | Retired 10 April 2005 | Returned 05 June 2008 | Made Staff 27 June 2008 | Made Council 18 January 2009 Padawan To Odan-Wei Belouve | Adopted into the Belouve family | Twin to xAnAtOs | Owner of the 4th Quesi sexy badge Brother To Roan Belouve, Nomad, Majno, Silkmonkey, Kensei and Jarhok Belouve
Owner Of Virtue's 1000th profile comment, Mr. Doobie's 1000th profile comment, Gradius' 2500th comment, xAnAtOs' 2500th comment, Rosered's 1500th comment, Laziana's 900th comment, Scythus' 500th comment and Echuu's 100th comment This comment was edited by solitude on Nov 05 2004 03:51pm. |
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student 
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Quote: number of times a thread has been viewed mmm, personally I don't like those (sorry for starting a discussion) I've seen several sites that have succeeded in completely making this the abomination of their own forum. If I click on my own thread, it counts as a view. If I click a second time, it counts my view again, and again, and again. However, if we could have a system like the 'New or updated' thread we have going on, then it will probably be better. Besides, do we really want to know how many people are looking at our threads without responding?  Just my ideas though, feel free to object _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
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solitude - Jedi Council
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number of times a thread has been viewed _______________ Joined 16 October 2004 | Retired 10 April 2005 | Returned 05 June 2008 | Made Staff 27 June 2008 | Made Council 18 January 2009 Padawan To Odan-Wei Belouve | Adopted into the Belouve family | Twin to xAnAtOs | Owner of the 4th Quesi sexy badge Brother To Roan Belouve, Nomad, Majno, Silkmonkey, Kensei and Jarhok Belouve
Owner Of Virtue's 1000th profile comment, Mr. Doobie's 1000th profile comment, Gradius' 2500th comment, xAnAtOs' 2500th comment, Rosered's 1500th comment, Laziana's 900th comment, Scythus' 500th comment and Echuu's 100th comment |
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Scythus Aratan - Student 
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Dunno if this has been posted, but: First page (of a thread) and Last page buttons, so we dont have to go clicking our way though tens of pages to get to page 1/last page. _______________ Padawan to the great Jacen Aratan! <Setementor> Scythus is a genius! Claimer of the 5000th post in the Count thread [Solitude] scy rocks [Casual] good point scythus, you're really smart |
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Smilykrazy - Retired 
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Can you make a Smilyface on the site? hehehe _______________ RIP MOM 06/29/58-07/31/08 Married to Koyi Donita 4/30/11 |
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Jade Jedi - Retired 
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I was thinking it would be good to have on your profile page a spot for an alter ego if you wish. As not everyone wants to be light/dark all the time. Also a merchandise page so you could generate some revenue for the JA, donating's fine but some people might like to contribute by buying things with the JA logo on it such as :polo shirts, t-shirts, caps, mouse pads, coffe mugs, beer coolers etc which you could make available on the site. By the way has the logo been decided or can I still submit an idea? _______________ *CLICKEH->Never risk the Fett Man|*Download my Saber here. Made by master craftsman Pink Floyd_Mintaka + his 2002 & 4000 comment's [Laz's 700th comment][BDKawika's 600th comment] & Owner of a TOWEL award!!|Master: Sared Padawans: Rage-Ball and Dante Eagle.|*Jade Jedi at The Jedi Academy Archives "There's only one Return and it's not of the King it's of the Jedi" Randal Clerks 2 The top 10 reasons why I procrastinate: 1. This comment was edited by Jade Jedi on Nov 03 2004 05:29am. |
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Masta - Jedi Council 
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Oh i just got a nice idea... What if you could add an option which lets you post colored letters? ^^ _______________ Find out more about the Jedi Academy Aurochs here and more about Masta here! Married to Kain. |
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Setementor - Jedi Master
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Yeah, that's another thing. I open two windows and click the same links so I can see what's said in the thread I'm commenting on. It'd also be nice to see the title somewhere too. |
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(Jedi)Obi-JK - Student 
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When I am adding a comment, it would be nice to be able to see all the previous comments, in case I would like to reference more than one. _______________ Silent Bob (Kevin Smith): You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you. -Steve (Obi) |
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council 
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Aye. These graphics arent toooooo heavy. Disable images in your browser. _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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JavaGuy - Student
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Ozzcoz--If you're on 56k and feel the need for speed on the web, I recommend using the Lynx browser. It is text-only, not very satisfying for viewing porn sites but great if you just want to check out the latest on the forums without waiting for graphics to load. Actually, I believe every browser out there has the option to turn off graphics, but Lynx is probably the most "lightweight" of all of them. _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Setementor - Jedi Master
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That's what the Holocron is for, kinda. Maybe a link to it on the front page would be nice also. |
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solitude - Jedi Council
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A n00b pack, with everything a n00b needs to begin, a FAQ and a map pack etc. _______________ Joined 16 October 2004 | Retired 10 April 2005 | Returned 05 June 2008 | Made Staff 27 June 2008 | Made Council 18 January 2009 Padawan To Odan-Wei Belouve | Adopted into the Belouve family | Twin to xAnAtOs | Owner of the 4th Quesi sexy badge Brother To Roan Belouve, Nomad, Majno, Silkmonkey, Kensei and Jarhok Belouve
Owner Of Virtue's 1000th profile comment, Mr. Doobie's 1000th profile comment, Gradius' 2500th comment, xAnAtOs' 2500th comment, Rosered's 1500th comment, Laziana's 900th comment, Scythus' 500th comment and Echuu's 100th comment |
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ozzcoz - Cosplay Nerd 
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Profile pics are nice and all, but coming from my old 56k background is a voice that says: "Please add an option on the user's profile settings to enable or disable profile pics on posts" Is this do-able? I was thinking something like the option to have posts in ascending or descending order. K Thx _______________ A wizard did it. |
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