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Ok. Then as the previous poster suggested, how about some hint that tells them to do a search before posting ? The message that is on top of all forums which explains guidelines is not visible easily, and most of the people won't read it fully. Some hints on the message posting window will be helpful for the posters to fine tune their messages.
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Should let Chris know 
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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The article was mistakenly marked as C++. This didn't affect the outcome of the comp, but we will try and be more careful with attribution
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I've been seeing it for weeks but nobody else commented, so here goes. There's only one thread titled "What's inside a package?" but the pane on the left has two entries for it. 
Here[^] is the screenshot saved for posterity.
-- moved by ed. at 22:51 Monday 30th July, 2007
Cheers,
Vıkram.
After all is said and done, much is said and little is done.
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I assumed it was Chris's attempt at subtle humour....I nearly posted in the lounge a while ago but Satips bashing was in full flight so I got sidetracked.
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
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I'd assumed it would go away once a new thread had been posted, but clearly I was wrong...
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: There's only one thread titled "What's inside a package?" but the pane on the left has two entries for it.
It is a demonstration of subtleness of some bugs.
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This morning someone posted a question on the lounge about how to contact site admins. For a minute, I realized that I couldn't quickly answer that question myself. The answer, of course, was the links on the left side pane.
That got me thinking. I rarely, if ever, look at the left hand side of the screen. Since the site's dynamic, I always look to the right side for updated info many times daily. When I need to search or browse, I use the links across the top.
So my suggestion would be to get rid of the right side panel, integrate that into the top menu, so that the dynamic content on each front page can be expanded upon. Static content, such as contact links, etc, can easily be placed either at the top or bottom. Redundant information, such as site polls should just be shown on the main page, since it's a summary of all tech. Maybe the left side could be designated as Ad space in certain places?
The other thing I'm curious about is why the site is using ASP instead of ASP.net?
Thanks!
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Bert delaVega wrote: why the site is using ASP instead of ASP.net?
I think there are plans to move it over to ASP.NET. It is only something I've heard around here...
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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I assume you are talking about the homepage. Are you thinking that maybe having the "latest questions" and "lounge latest" appear in a dropdown or similar?
As to ASP.NET: We currently have a new version written in ASP.NET currently in alpha testing. Until now there's simply been no pressing need to move to ASP.NET but with increased load and new features we wish to add we've bitten the bullet and invested a lot in reworking the infrastruvture from scratch
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Yes, the home page. What I was thinking is that the left side menu could be incorporated into two sections: the top menu and a bottom menu. So a section like "About the code project" could go on the bottom (footer) and some of the technology categories (for example "General C#, C# programming") could be a drop down from the top C# menu. That could free up some space for content.
For example, if you look at the new CNN.com site, you'll see a section menu across the top, static stuff on the botton. And the area in between is all news content links that change almost daily. If you look at cnn.com with the codeproject structure in mind, you might see what I mean.
The reason I'm suggesting it is because first time visitors would most likely use the left menus, along with everything else. But after making codeproject a part of your daily routine, you pull up the site and automatically look for new content (articles, lounge, questions, etc). After a while you forget to even look at the left side menu since it's static. Just my $.02, fwiw.
Thanks,
Bert
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Suggestion: To show messages in tree like structure as shown in screen shot, the advantage of this would a person can see maximum message in a current view. i am unable to write the proper english of that, so i am attaching the screen shot.
http://www.stylusstudio.com/images/screenshots/fixml_schema_file_org.gif[^]
here when user cick the "+" sign then the link of submessages are visible else not.
Best Regards,
Mushq
Mushtaque Ahmed Nizamani
Software Engineer
Ultimus Pakistan
"English is my second language, so please don't mind if i do some grammatical or spelling mistakes in my messages."
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Have you tried the "Thread View"? - in the combobox in the orange bar on top of these messages.
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Thanxs 
Best Regards,
Mushq
Mushtaque Ahmed Nizamani
Software Engineer
Ultimus Pakistan
"English is my second language, so please don't mind if i do some grammatical or spelling mistakes in my messages."
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Hi Hans,
I was not aware of the feature - thanks. Thread View still lacks the 'cleanness' of the tree view (IMHO).
Jeff
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One thing that's small but always annoying and occurs almost daily is that sometimes I'll receive an email notification of a reply to my post in a large thread with levels and levels of posts. When I click on it I'll get to that persons reply but because my post they are responding to is one or more pages up it's nearly impossible to know which of my posts in the thread is being replied to other than context or if they quote a bit.
There are two links in the bottom, one for going to the start of the thread, the original post, and another for viewing the thread separately (which I can't see the use of at all), perhaps if there was a link that went to the message they were directly replying to?
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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that would be called the "Parent" link then ?
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I don't care what they call it as long as they add it
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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I would call it the "Apropos" link.....but that might be confusing to non-englishers(hey, Shakespeare did it!)....but definitely a good, useful idea.
FG
I am who I am because of who everyone around me is.
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flyingnome wrote: "Apropos" link.....but that might be confusing to non-englishers
Stealing from the French ?
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est-ce que c'est piquer, si c'est ma langue maternelle?
I would say more along the lines of....assimilation.....or "open source" language use.. 
I am who I am because of who everyone around me is.
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You might choose to use two words then and top it of with a classy little accent.
But that would reduce the probability it getting accepted I guess...
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English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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