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I love this site. Good job with setting it up (big relief after the Code Guru fiasco).
Here are a couple of suggestions that would make it easier to move around in the forums:
- I set my view preference to "linear" when I registered. Now there is no clear way to get back to a preferences page to reset my preference to default to "threaded".
- When I am reading a message, there are "reply", "subscribe", "previous", "next", "return", and "home" navigation links, but it would be nice to have:
- A banner to tell me what folder I'm in when reading a message.
- A "folder" or "top" navigation link to take me to the folder view. Otherwise, I have to hit my browser's back button or the "return" link repeatedly if I've been browsing a thread sequentially, hitting "next message" over and over.
- The ability to edit or delete messages I've previously posted to the forum.
Thanks for listening and for creating this site.
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I've had a lot of good suggestions for this board (including yours). As soon as the initial rush settles down and I can really get stuck into the scripts, I'll make the boards more user friendly.
cheers,
Chris
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I love this site. Good job with setting it up (big relief after the Code Guru fiasco).
Here are a couple of suggestions that would make it easier to move around in the forums:
- I set my view preference to "linear" when I registered. Now there is no clear way to get back to a preferences page to reset my preference to default to "threaded".
- When I am reading a message, there are "reply", "subscribe", "previous", "next", "return", and "home" navigation links, but it would be nice to have:
- A banner to tell me what folder I'm in when reading a message.
- A "folder" or "top" navigation link to take me to the folder view. Otherwise, I have to hit my browser's back button or the "return" link repeatedly if I've been browsing a thread sequentially, hitting "next message" over and over.
- The ability to edit or delete messages I've previously posted to the forum.
Thanks for listening and for creating this site.
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I like how this site is set up except for the article section which really needs a comment links. Most code can always be improved!
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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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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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How about a top 10 (or 20) downloads? This ususally shows the best articles that are worth using
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Excellent idea - I will look into the best way of doing this immediately.
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The original message was:
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 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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The original message was:
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 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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The original message was:
Excellent idea - I will look into the best way of doing this immediately.
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The original message was:
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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The original message was:
Excellent idea - I will look into the best way of doing this immediately.
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The original message was:
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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The original message was:
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.
--Mike--
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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.
--Mike--
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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. 
--Mike--
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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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