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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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Roan Belouve - Retired 
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K I didn't get to read all the previous posts and this made me think Could you have a "Find" tool like Ctrl F. So you could see if someone had already posted something without having to read evert post not just the page!! Also the search tool that did exist so you could look at all the post by one person or on one subject it was cool. Profile pics on posts are good they are normally the only time you notice them. Um thats all atm. I'll get back to you Opps forgot to mention a NIPPLE hidden on the site!! TY! _______________ *Bro to Vaxxla,Padawan of FiZZandOdan-Wei Part of the mighty Belouve Dynasty-Knight of Nippledom.Twin of Selphestal!**Proud Master to Kaelis and Acura Friend to anyone who would call me the same . Pic by the amazing Majno (merry)
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
Hah, I'd like a name history. Would be pretty interesting to see how often I switch name. Or do I really wanna know... |
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JavaGuy - Student 
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Another thought: Name history. This would encompass two features: 1. On a person's profile there'd be a Name History link to display a list of the person's site names and on what date each one was adopted. 2. When you Search for a user on the About Us page, the search function searches all the user's historical names, not just the current one. (You still have the option to include or exclude inactive users.) This way, if you search for a user who has, unbeknownst to you, changed his name, you'll still find him. When you find the link that says his original name and click on it to view the profile, you'll see right away that he has changed his name. _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council 
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What I have in mind should look fine in IE, Mozilla, Safari, and Lynx (I use Lynx too ) and be incredibly standards compliant. I'm redoing the db structure to make pretty much anything searchable. All current site data will be converted to the new format so we won't lose profiles or posts. _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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Gradius - Ex-Student 
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So nobody is going for the Gradius Bashing Forum, eh? Bah, I'll just have to start my own Jedi Academy and add it.  _______________ - 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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Khâ D'Kana - Student 
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About the browser thing, yes it's good to be standard compliant. But it's even better when all academy students could have the same possibilities without to have to change their browser. Most of people are using IE, it's maybe good maybe not but it's the case. And you cannot ask them to simply change their browser. For example I prefere IE when browsing picture galleries because in this particular case it's faster than Firefox. For all other stuff I'm right now using Firefox. Just think about the fact that the academy normally promote an open view and when features are restricted for users with the most common browser on this planet you're no more open. So be standard-compliant but not in restricting features for the final users  my 2 cents, -Khâ D'Kana _______________ In light of day, nor dark of night, no evil shall escape our sight. Proud member of the D'Kana family This comment was edited by Khâ D'Kana on Oct 17 2004 08:29pm. |
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JavaGuy - Student
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On the browser issue, a couple things: First it should be standards-compliant, not hooked into any proprietary quirks of some particular browser. I use Mozilla at home and Lynx at work. Second: Javascript is okay as an enhancement but should not be necessary. E.g., if a page has a form to fill out, it's nice to have a Javascript that automatically sets the focus to the first form field, but the form is still completely usable without that. Every feature of the site should still work just fine without Javascript. _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Orion - Retired 
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Quote: Make it cross-browser compatible. It's just a fact that a lot of people use Internet Explorer - it's installed with the Windows XP system, and a lot of people enjoy computer games without knowing a lot about computers. Be a bit considerate, it always annoyed me that you can't even select text in the IE browser. It's easy to make it XHTML compatible and still have it work in both. /me dissagres why support a bad product? By many sites becoming standard complient with the W3 web standards for websites, this SHOULD open microsoft to realize they cannot always get their way and force everyone to conform to their ways. Yeah it did work for them, but now with the Mozilla Foudnataion's products gaining popularity, websites should stop being IE complient and focus on standards. Standards are a very good thing, they make development soo much easier in stead of making a website IE Complient, Mozilla Complient, Oper Compilent, just write it once and your done, none of these stupid hacks to get different broswers to look right. _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u |
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student 
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Quote: Flash pwns  we coulda had a lil clip of bail whiping out his saber, killing 421542346235 lammers and then cutting his belt so his pants fall off. Then grad butterflys past him and cuts his shirt off. I think he's joking Sete  _______________ 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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Setementor - Jedi Master 
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Italian Ice - Student 
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Flash pwns we coulda had a lil clip of bail whiping out his saber, killing 421542346235 lammers and then cutting his belt so his pants fall off. Then grad butterflys past him and cuts his shirt off. _______________ It's funny how many people know they have the right to remain silent, yet never do. |
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Setementor - Jedi Master
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Maybe a short paragraph linking to the registration page and the Holocron on the front page. This would clear up confusion for new members. |
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Mookie - Ex-Student 
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Make it cross-browser compatible. It's just a fact that a lot of people use Internet Explorer - it's installed with the Windows XP system, and a lot of people enjoy computer games without knowing a lot about computers. Be a bit considerate, it always annoyed me that you can't even select text in the IE browser. It's easy to make it XHTML compatible and still have it work in both. |
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
Go make a mod or something! *throws a book at Orion* |
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Orion - Retired 
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boooo be unlazy! _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u |
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
Ohhh, thanks for reminding me, Kueller... make a pop up for doing links, especially those that use the [url=lala]name, so you'll press "make link" and you get the usual pop up that says "please write URL:", and then "Please write text (optional):". This comment was edited by Jacen Aratan on Oct 17 2004 12:16am. |
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Kueller - Student 
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Buttons for making text bold etc. For the real lazy peeps _______________ Personal sleepness-nights-supporter of Virtue. Owner of the 1000th comment of Daidalus and 1943th comment of Gradius! Owner of the 300th comment of Carda! -Taught Gradius all his laming skills
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Vaughn - Student 
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heh... i work with classes in java... they annoy me because im bad with them now... (forgot everythign over the summer) _______________ When you become an actor, you become the person, and you dont act anymore. You just are. - Tyler HP, Taught by Mr G Simpson |
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Khâ D'Kana - Student 
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I don't know if the idea already popped on or not. But I think it could be cool if beside our profile we could have something like a weblog. So we could say people what's going on and what we're making. I'm not asking about RSS feeds and so, but a page where the profile owner only can add entries. And people should comment it their or on the profile. It's just because when you post something on your own profile, it's really fast too far away in the page. So people won't see it <EDIT> Oh and what about the possibility to add user watch on cool thread, so we should refind them without problems </EDIT> my 2 cents, -Khâ D'Kana _______________ In light of day, nor dark of night, no evil shall escape our sight. Proud member of the D'Kana family This comment was edited by Khâ D'Kana on Oct 16 2004 06:41pm. |
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Setementor - Jedi Master
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Quote: How about a thing where we can see more than just someone's last comment? Say they said something, you read it, and the next day you can't remember where it was, but want to respond to it. So you go to their profile- and they've already posted something after it! Maybe it could be added to the search function... |
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Trad Redav - Student 
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shouldn't this be, say... stickied? How about a thing where we can see more than just someone's last comment? Say they said something, you read it, and the next day you can't remember where it was, but want to respond to it. So you go to their profile- and they've already posted something after it! Also, a thing (yes, i am perfectly aware of how descriptive that is) in the profile where you can say, for example: Plays Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast: Always/Often/Sometimes/Rarely/Never Plays Jedi Academy: Always/Often/Sometimes/Rarely/Never Talks on IRC: Always/Often/Sometimes/Rarely/Never And things like that, so you can see how you might contact them real-time if you need something that would be better off not handled through comments on profiles. Oh, and the 'always' option is, uh... it actually means 'obsessively' _______________ Well then. Just so you know, just because I don't post often doesn't mean I don't lurk this place multiple times every day... |
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
It only hide those that have been marked "ex-student" after the spring clean out. And if you log in, it'll tell you your user is non-existent, meaning you have to get a JAC to re-open it. |
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Tido - Student 
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I think both 1 and 3 already exist. Doesn't the site already hide inactive accounts? |
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JavaGuy - Student 
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Here's an idea: A profile unused for three months gets marked "inactive" in the database. This has three effects: 1. The name does not appear in the About Us list of JA members. 2. In the search form under About Us where you search for profiles, there's a checkbox that says "Include Inactive Accounts" and is unchecked by default. 3. When an inactive user logs in, the account is marked active again. _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Jade Jedi - Retired 
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Quote: I think inactive profiles should be deleted after 3 months. Also merge same forums into one eg the 3 or 4 SW battlefront forums all talking about the same thing taking up realestate. An honor roll for JA who have passed on with there profile image and a brief JA aproved eulogy starting with valdarion might be an idea. about the profiles.. I don't think that will work that well.. if someone is away without explanation because of RL .. and comes back to find their profile deleted.. they'll be annoyed.. maybe a status set, that if they don't login in 3 months.. their status changes from student to inactive or something. Yeh Acey, thats what I mean you can go inactive yourself or if the profile has been loged into for 3 or what ever months you get a reminder e-mail/mesage and if there is still no acctivity then its canceled.There are some profiles that were created and never used again. _______________ *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. |
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