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By "user bar", I'm referring to the far right side of the light orange bar that also shows the number of registered users.
Instead of string all those things out, try one of these two things:
1) Reduce it to just the user's name and put everything else into a drop-down menu that shows up when you hover over the user name. To indicate that there's a drop-down, you might want to use a graphic down-pointing arrow.
2) Same as item #1, but leave "Sign-out" at the top level.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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How about creating a new menu item labeled "Topics", and make it have a drop-down menu from which you can select the following:
MFC/C++
C#
ASP.Net
VB.Net
Architect
SQL
All Topics
and then have a bread-crumb style indicator of the currently selected topic, like so:
Home Topics (MFC/C++) Articles Forums Help
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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Added to suggestions list.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hi,
How about Separate Conifugration Managment and setup forum in CP.
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 noticed the amount of junk and ridiculously simple articles that have started to pop up on CodeProject?
An examples: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/bj__jhkljk.asp
There were few more during the past week. I did report most as abuse and almost all seem to have been taken out 
So you can rest assured that the CP admins thought them to be junk as well, and that I'm not trying to pick on some kid who posted a beginner article.
But, what's going on in here anyway? Have we pissed off some sociopaths and let them run wild on CP?
Anyway, I suggest we all take the time to figure out what we can do to keep CP from turning into something ugly.
If you have read this (http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=44091&cid=4592270) article on SlashDot, you'll understand my concern 
Cheers!
Sameera.
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Just let Chris know about it and he'll take care of it
"That's no moon, it's a space station." - Obi-wan Kenobi
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Hey Chris! You know about this?
Maybe CP, ratings should work like Digg.
Or maybe more CPians should be made moderators.
Anything to keep the site clean 
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I suggest members with less than 50 messages are not allowed to post an article
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While that can help,
that would even exclude me
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I think new members (however you define it) should be allowed to post an article, but their articles should be queued for review (maybe by CP "volunteer" editors?) until they have completed their probationary period.
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Yeah, precisely.
I'd volunteer for such a worth cause 
(seriously, I would).
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sameeraperera wrote: I'd volunteer for such a worth cause
(seriously, I would).
I would also do
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sameeraperera wrote: If you have read this (http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=44091&cid=4592270) article on SlashDot, you'll understand my concern
That was hilarious. I'm still laughing. When I stop laughing, I'll probably begin to realize how close it comes to some situations here, but thanks for the link. 
Example:
Slashdottians know nothing, they accomplish nothing, and their opinions are worth nothing. They are uniformly bitter, small-minded geeks who overestimate their own importance and their own skillz. They are, for the most part, losers. Their biggest accomplishment is in insulting others' spelling and grammar.
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Yep, one of the great pieces of writing I ever read on the web.
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To give you a serious reply: These past few weeks have certainly been unusual in the number of sub-optimal articles (SOAs). I've theorized in the past that maybe somewhere in the world a teacher makes it a class assignment to "post an article on a programming site". However, the time of the year doesn't seem right for that to be the reason this time. As you will find, there is extreme reluctance to throttle the article flow in any way - I'm sure you can guess why. So we're probably stuck with the fly-swatter approach. Try not to let it get to you. 
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I understand what you're saying. All of us have learnt a lot from CP and as long as you don't ask for it, we'll admit to owing most of the money we make to what we've learnt here
Spent a lot of time on the first article I posted here. Had to make sure that it was good enough to be along side ones posted by the CP greats. Don't wanna see some punk kids ruine those standards.
There, meaningful discussion. Bet those slashdottians never knew what that was like
Think that's enough slashdot-bashing for a while.
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It is a blatant abuse. Just like with more negative votes on messages cause it to diminish there should be some option for articles too now.
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Precisely!
Like in Digg.
Articles below threshold should not appear unless a CP admin approves it (that would keep people like the univoter from messing up the good ones). And people should be held responsible for their votes.
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Use the "Report Broken Article" link at the top of the articles and we deal with them appropriately.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Yes, but that takes time to take it off doesn't it. I reported the link I put up as the example, and it was working until now (I guess you took it off). Not that we drive ourselves crazy looking at those pages, but when we notice something wrong, we'd like to participate in fixing it...
you know...
Power to the People
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It's monday morning. We do, occasionally, need to sleep.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Basically, what samarea is asking is to disable the page from being public display. That should be a good idea. Isn't it?
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yeah Chris, that way you can get more sleep
:-P
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sameeraperera wrote: but when we notice something wrong, we'd like to participate in fixing it...
True. It actually makes an eyesore on CP and with more spam reports, it can be blocked off public display till CP Admin intervenes.
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and what a royal pain it is too.
Why does signing in redirect to the Code Project home page?
And why does 'Remember me' not work - If I navigate to a CP page from 'outside' - I have to sign in to be able to download/comment, which then navigates you away from the page of interest... ach!
I'm using FireFox 2.0.0.4 with cookies etc enabled on XP SP2.
ATB
Jerry
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