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I feel that if I know what I am are saying, I wouldn't worry about the rating. Actually, you pointed out a nice thing about ratings. People won't take pot-shots for fear of a bad rating !!
Well, even if that is the general opinion, all you need to do is NOT provide negative ratings.
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I know they do this at CodeGuru...but a lot of us always felt that the ratings were rather obnoxious... if you want to give someone a tip...or post an article,I know that I would personally feel inclined not to post something for fear of a bad rating... I think it will drive people away, not attract them.
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Excellent idea - I will look into the best way of doing this immediately.
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Chris,
Recognition for code/articles/advice/tips will go a long way in attracting more experts to your site. After all, people devote time and resources and appreciation would enthuse them.
The more "gurus" posting at your site, the more rookies (yours truly) hanging around...
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There is nothing wrong in being told about codes which ends up crashing here and there. Where are the so-called
negative rating or comments on the codeguru site?
Paul.
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I feel that if I know what I am are saying, I wouldn't worry about the rating. Actually, you pointed out a nice thing about ratings. People won't take pot-shots for fear of a bad rating !!
Well, even if that is the general opinion, all you need to do is NOT provide negative ratings.
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The original message was:
I know they do this at CodeGuru...but a lot of us always felt that the ratings were rather obnoxious... if you want to give someone a tip...or post an article,I know that I would personally feel inclined not to post something for fear of a bad rating... I think it will drive people away, not attract them.
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Excellent idea - I will look into the best way of doing this immediately.
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Chris,
Recognition for code/articles/advice/tips will go a long way in attracting more experts to your site. After all, people devote time and resources and appreciation would enthuse them.
The more "gurus" posting at your site, the more rookies (yours truly) hanging around...
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I like the idea of having users rate an article.
Also, a hit count per article would go along way to showing how popular an article is.
As a developer, I have lots of code snippets lying around that I often use. But I have no idea how useful these ideas are to others. Having hit counts on articles and an easy way to see them would help me understand were there is a reasonable amount of interest to justify my effort to package a code snippet into an article.
Just a thought,
Keith
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Hi,
Nice, interesting and useful site.
I'll surely keep an eye on it!
It would be nice that when I decide to collapse e.g. the "Controls" chapter at the left it would STAY collapsed on all other pages I visit (until I decide the opposite again)
Geert.
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I can do this - but until I have a chance to clear some more of the backlog I won't have a chance.
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Hi,
Nice, interesting and useful site.
I'll surely keep an eye on it!
It would be nice that when I decide to collapse e.g. the "Controls" chapter at the left it would STAY collapsed on all other pages I visit (until I decide the opposite again)
Geert.
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Hi Chris,
I use Netscape Communicator 4.7, and it seems that this browse can't read some .asp
page from CodeProject. In fact, there is some problems with the coloring syntax, as you
can see in the attached file.
With IE5, all pages are fine.
Thanks and bravo for your site.
Thierry
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Netscape really does do a poor job of displaying DHTML. I'm using Netscape 4.08 and it seems to be working fine. I guess each minor revision of Netscape has it's own minor quirks. I'm redoing the main page (again!) becuase of Netscape oddities.
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Hi Chris,
I use Netscape Communicator 4.7, and it seems that this browse can't read some .asp
page from CodeProject. In fact, there is some problems with the coloring syntax, as you
can see in the attached file.
With IE5, all pages are fine.
Thanks and bravo for your site.
Thierry
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Hello Chris,
Your attack on Netscape is not right. There is not
standard DHTML and if you decide to use IE5 specifics, try them in IE4 and see the results.
Besides what is needed on this site is not decos but usefulness. You seems to be paying more attention to decorations and appearance leaving the main things.
We need feedbacks on articles we post through comments and suggestions. You have decided not to pay attention to this rather, the unneccessary stuff. You are doing a
good job but we need the real stuff to get the feel of codeguru of old.
Best regards,
Paul.
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Netscape really does do a poor job of displaying DHTML. I'm using Netscape 4.08 and it seems to be working fine. I guess each minor revision of Netscape has it's own minor quirks. I'm redoing the main page (again!) becuase of Netscape oddities.
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Hi Chris,
I use Netscape Communicator 4.7, and it seems that this browse can't read some .asp
page from CodeProject. In fact, there is some problems with the coloring syntax, as you
can see in the attached file.
With IE5, all pages are fine.
Thanks and bravo for your site.
Thierry
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Something I just noticed in the disussion area... All of the links to posts are blue - they don't change color to indicate which posts you've already read. That makes it very hard to find new messages.
Also, the font is awfully small. I see that the text is marked up as . While it is readable to me, it does get a bit tiring on the eyes after a while. Bumping the size up to 2 or 3 would be nicer IMO.
--Mike--
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Heh, looks like the board has HTML turned on  My second paragraph was:
Also, the font is awfully small. I see that the text is marked up as <font size=1>. While it is readable to me, it does get a bit tiring on the eyes after a while. Bumping the size up to 2 or 3 would be nicer IMO.
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Something I just noticed in the disussion area... All of the links to posts are blue - they don't change color to indicate which posts you've already read. That makes it very hard to find new messages.
Also, the font is awfully small. I see that the text is marked up as . While it is readable to me, it does get a bit tiring on the eyes after a while. Bumping the size up to 2 or 3 would be nicer IMO.
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Yep - HTML is turned on
Thanks for the comments - I'd like to rework the Forum UI a little to make it look less generic, so I'll take your ideas on board.
- Chris
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Heh, looks like the board has HTML turned on My second paragraph was:
Also, the font is awfully small. I see that the text is marked up as . While it is readable to me, it does get a bit tiring on the eyes after a while. Bumping the size up to 2 or 3 would be nicer IMO.
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Something I just noticed in the disussion area... All of the links to posts are blue - they don't change color to indicate which posts you've already read. That makes it very hard to find new messages.
Also, the font is awfully small. I see that the text is marked up as . While it is readable to me, it does get a bit tiring on the eyes after a while. Bumping the size up to 2 or 3 would be nicer IMO.
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I'd like some opinions on the colours, fonts, and font sizes used. Some people love them, some people hate them - but if there is anything in particular that would make the site easier to read or navigate then I'd like to hear from you guys.
cheers,
Chris
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I would like that blue colour be used only for links, not for headings or anything else. I like Arial font, size 11
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I'd like some opinions on the colours, fonts, and font sizes used. Some people love them, some people hate them - but if there is anything in particular that would make the site easier to read or navigate then I'd like to hear from you guys.
cheers,
Chris
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Hi Chris,
The Verdana font is the best choice you can make:
it's designed for its good readability.
You have a nice, sober, professional looking site.
Keep it like that!!!
(read my suggestion about remembering the collapsed states of the chapters at the left)
Geert.
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I'd like some opinions on the colours, fonts, and font sizes used. Some people love them, some people hate them - but if there is anything in particular that would make the site easier to read or navigate then I'd like to hear from you guys.
cheers,
Chris
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Chris I really feel there should be 'add comments' feature at the end of submitted article. This enables the users to communicate and encourage the auther.
Shahzad
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It's definitely on the cards, though in a much more organised fashion than has previously been implemented. Once the site is fully functioning I will have more time to add cool stuff like this.
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Chris I really feel there should be 'add comments' feature at the end of submitted article. This enables the users to communicate and encourage the auther.
Shahzad
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Chris & whoever else is working here --
I just had a couple of comments about the HTML which I feel would improve the site.
First, *please* underline links! This is a big peeve of mine. Links should be underlined to make them stand out as links. Just changing the color of the text doesn't make them stand out enough.
For instance, on the main page, all of the categories in the left navigation bar look like plain text. It's not until you mouseover the text that you can tell that they're links. Users shouldn't have to go hunting for links like that.
Also, the colors of unvisited links and visited links are too similar. Unvisited links are blue and visited ones are just a shade darker. Unless I happen to have two links near each other to compare the colors, I cannot tell whether a link is visited or not. Again, you're making more work for the user and you gain nothing by doing so. The default colors (blue and purple) work fine and would even fit in nicely with the existing color scheme.
OK, enough ranting. 
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So - you'd like me to have a look at link styles, huh? <g>
Thanks for your comments - I'll add these to my TODO list and hopefully make the site easier to navigate.
- Chris
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Chris & whoever else is working here --
I just had a couple of comments about the HTML which I feel would improve the site.
First, *please* underline links! This is a big peeve of mine. Links should be underlined to make them stand out as links. Just changing the color of the text doesn't make them stand out enough.
For instance, on the main page, all of the categories in the left navigation bar look like plain text. It's not until you mouseover the text that you can tell that they're links. Users shouldn't have to go hunting for links like that.
Also, the colors of unvisited links and visited links are too similar. Unvisited links are blue and visited ones are just a shade darker. Unless I happen to have two links near each other to compare the colors, I cannot tell whether a link is visited or not. Again, you're making more work for the user and you gain nothing by doing so. The default colors (blue and purple) work fine and would even fit in nicely with the existing color scheme.
OK, enough ranting.
--Mike--
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Mike and Chris
got to agree with the problems with telling visited and unvisited links apart, but even with two links next to each other I can't tell. Colour blindness is a real bitch.
Also the blue/purple scenario, guess what two colours of many I have explicit problems telling apart.
Just my thoughts, I have these sorts of problems on many web sites and with many computer applications. Very few developers think of the colour blind, and I can tell you that a large percentage of people (especially male) have some form of colour blindness though most are note that extreme.
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Chris & whoever else is working here --
I just had a couple of comments about the HTML which I feel would improve the site.
First, *please* underline links! This is a big peeve of mine. Links should be underlined to make them stand out as links. Just changing the color of the text doesn't make them stand out enough.
For instance, on the main page, all of the categories in the left navigation bar look like plain text. It's not until you mouseover the text that you can tell that they're links. Users shouldn't have to go hunting for links like that.
Also, the colors of unvisited links and visited links are too similar. Unvisited links are blue and visited ones are just a shade darker. Unless I happen to have two links near each other to compare the colors, I cannot tell whether a link is visited or not. Again, you're making more work for the user and you gain nothing by doing so. The default colors (blue and purple) work fine and would even fit in nicely with the existing color scheme.
OK, enough ranting.
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When you say very few developers think of the color blind, that is likely true, but it's not a conscious conspiracy against you. Speaking for myself, I have heard only one thing about male color-blindness, that being red-green blindness. (So, for example, it's bad to use green for unvisited links, and red for visited links.)
Asking as a developer, what are the best colors to use? I see color fine, so I honestly have no idea what colors pose problems for color-blind folks.
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Mike and Chris
got to agree with the problems with telling visited and unvisited links apart, but even with two links next to each other I can't tell. Colour blindness is a real bitch.
Also the blue/purple scenario, guess what two colours of many I have explicit problems telling apart.
Just my thoughts, I have these sorts of problems on many web sites and with many computer applications. Very few developers think of the colour blind, and I can tell you that a large percentage of people (especially male) have some form of colour blindness though most are note that extreme.
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Mike
didn't actually mean that their was a conspiracy, just that people don't think about it. Those who aren't colour blind rarely think or sometimes even know about it and those that are colour blind forget about it as it has generally blended in to the background.
Red / Green colour blindness is just the one that most hear about. Knew I was colour blind since I was a child as I would stuff up the colour by number books we had as kids. What I didn't know was I had problems with Red / Green until a medical for the Army show it up. Failed to differentiate between Red / Green / White lights shone on a wall about 7 metres away. They all looked the bloody same.
Anyway I have problems with the following colours -
Red / Green
Dark Green / Brown
Blue / Purple
Red / Brown (this is a problem with Snooker)
I also know of people who have problems with Pink / Grey. You don't even want to go into weird colours and varying shades with me as I get completely lost there.
Anyway, back to the original question, what are the best colour combinations ..... no bloody idea. Different things depending on the background, sometimes I have had problems reading whole pages because of this, I generally only know what doesn't work once I see it. I suppose if you steer clear of the combinations mentioned above you should stay out a trouble.
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When you say very few developers think of the color blind, that is likely true, but it's not a conscious conspiracy against you. Speaking for myself, I have heard only one thing about male color-blindness, that being red-green blindness. (So, for example, it's bad to use green for unvisited links, and red for visited links.)
Asking as a developer, what are the best colors to use? I see color fine, so I honestly have no idea what colors pose problems for color-blind folks.
--Mike--
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Mike and Chris
got to agree with the problems with telling visited and unvisited links apart, but even with two links next to each other I can't tell. Colour blindness is a real bitch.
Also the blue/purple scenario, guess what two colours of many I have explicit problems telling apart.
Just my thoughts, I have these sorts of problems on many web sites and with many computer applications. Very few developers think of the colour blind, and I can tell you that a large percentage of people (especially male) have some form of colour blindness though most are note that extreme.
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Wikipedia has a pretty good article on color blindness. Included are links to some applications like http://www.vischeck.com/ that can simulate various types of color blindness.
Without darkness, there are no dreams.
-Karla Kuban
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Hi Chris,
I answered the first question a few minutes ago. The input field is far to small if you want to post some code. Can you please make the bigger?
Thanks!
Martin
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It's beautiful.. as of now, pretty fast. I see that you've moved to ASP... is there any possibility of you guys writing up your experiences between the "earlier" setup and now ??
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Thanks - I'm working to try and keep it fairly lean and crisp.
As to writing about past experiences - well, I could write a whole book on that! It's certainly been an amazing year but I think I'll restrict my creative writing to code for the moment
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It's beautiful.. as of now, pretty fast. I see that you've moved to ASP... is there any possibility of you guys writing up your experiences between the "earlier" setup and now ??
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