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Post by PinkFloydYoshi on Nov 21, 2005 18:53:58 GMT -5
Well, after 3 months of changing layouts, creating new imagery, and faffing with code, I have a screenshot of the userpage, partially complete, as it's missing the featured artwork, latest submission, and half the stats. yoshicurio.com/yoshicurio_userpage.jpgBecause I need to make this as featureful for it's audience as possible, I need a large lot of suggestions to add or take away from this screenshot. There's a bar thats missing too that only shows up with you're on a userpage that isn't yours which enables you to pm, 'watch', etc... About that +AO that appears next to my username. Those are 'usermodes', similarly to IRC, you are assigned usermodes according to your status on the board. +M would mean member, +MB would mean Member Betatester. +AO means AdministratorOperator, and so on. I'll include a help page completing the key on what usermodes mean what just before the Journal service goes live. Suggestions? Criticisms? By the way, comment moderation is something all userpage owners will be able to do on their pages. Not just an administrative feature. |
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Post by Koshizu on Nov 21, 2005 19:04:17 GMT -5
Looks great so far.
I don't mean to be a nitpicker, but my only qualm is the colour scheme...by which I mean the background/tables merging into one another, it leaves me a little...confused? I don't know, heh. I'm aware its not finished yet, but thats about the only suggestion I have.
Oh and one other thing - have you taken your ideas solely from dA?
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Post by PinkFloydYoshi on Nov 21, 2005 19:21:27 GMT -5
Looks great so far. I don't mean to be a nitpicker, but my only qualm is the colour scheme...by which I mean the background/tables merging into one another, it leaves me a little...confused? I don't know, heh. I'm aware its not finished yet, but thats about the only suggestion I have. Oh and one other thing - have you taken your ideas solely from dA? Only the ones I deem useful, so partially, yes, but with this in mind, there will be a number of additions to the system that dA do not even have. Userpage skinning is one feature. The banner at the top, underneath the userbar can be changed by the pages owner to reflect their style. BG colour, table colours are included in that. I'm thinking about leaving the feature dA call 'dA ID'. A more descriptive user profile will be added below the statistics. Also, because capturing pageviews is popular, I'll set that up so when someone visits the page when the pageview meets a thousand, a link will appear that the user can click to make it become a submission in that users gallery, and alert the userpage owner that their whatever-thousandth pageview was caught by thismember. Userpage spamming was popular on dA, so I added moderation controls to each userpage comment the page owner can delete and moderate at their wish. The report feature is within the same page so no going to another 5 pages to get to report a particular post. Crap, I can go on like this for hours. The system is being developed to work like dA does, but give the user much more flexibility in the process. Basically saying yes, it does use dA features, but this will do the job better. |
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Post by Enrique on Nov 21, 2005 19:27:39 GMT -5
I think it looks good. I can't wait until it's available!
I like the color scheme, but, like Koshizu said, the coloring in the table layout blend in a little too well with each other, causing a confusion and uncertainty with the dimensions of the individual cells. The screenshot looks as if the dimensions of the tables are extremely random, but it may just be me (since I don't use dA. =P).
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Post by Koshizu on Nov 21, 2005 19:27:53 GMT -5
Sounds like a conglomoration of deviantArt, SheezyArt and Furaffinity, heh...
You know, I'm not so sure comment moderation is a great idea. Sure, spamming on dA happens but thats all it is. Spam. It can eventually be bumped off with the right amount of other decent comments.
Call me paranoid, but I just think having the power to be able to moderate comments such as deletion, it just opens up a whole other can of worms with lying, scamming, cheating, ect.
But like I said. Call me paranoid, hahah.
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Post by PinkFloydYoshi on Nov 21, 2005 19:48:48 GMT -5
Sounds like a conglomoration of deviantArt, SheezyArt and Furaffinity, heh... You know, I'm not so sure comment moderation is a great idea. Sure, spamming on dA happens but thats all it is. Spam. It can eventually be bumped off with the right amount of other decent comments. Call me paranoid, but I just think having the power to be able to moderate comments such as deletion, it just opens up a whole other can of worms with lying, scamming, cheating, ect. But like I said. Call me paranoid, hahah. You do have a point though. Would "You must give a reason for this delete request" work? Set it up so that no comments are actually deleted, but only 'hidden', and when a problem arises, I, or another Admin can just 'Unhide' to resolve the situation. Could work couldn't it? I've spaced out the bottom table from the top table. I now need to apply borders to the outside to prevent the blending. If I just enable borders, it'll add bordes to every cell, and I don't want it to do that else it'll look as though everything is seperate, instead of finely/nicely customized. r |
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Post by Enrique on Nov 21, 2005 19:55:08 GMT -5
Yeah, that seems like a good idea. Because some people will moderate comments for reasons that make it unneccessary (for example, on another forum, the adminstrator locked a topic because he thought that people knew where he lived as result of an individual post on the topic (which was edited by the same guy before the topic was locked), which was a dumb reason for locking it.).
The bordering around the cells would help as well. I like the fact you wish to let individual accounts to be customizable. It would show a lot about the individual user as a person, and give personality to the community.
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Post by PinkFloydYoshi on Nov 21, 2005 20:57:28 GMT -5
I'll note that down on the to-do list. Borders applied. yoshicurio.com/yoshicurio_userpage.jpgThis layout does wotk in higher resolutions, I'm just using 800x600 in the example to show you don't have to have an astronomically high resolution to use this system. |
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Post by Enrique on Nov 21, 2005 21:00:23 GMT -5
Yes, the bordering does look a lot better on the webpage. It looks way more organized now.
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Post by red.yoshi on Nov 22, 2005 21:32:21 GMT -5
im so impervious to whats going on around me, whats yoshicurio?
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Post by Enrique on Nov 22, 2005 22:10:15 GMT -5
YoshiCurio is a project that PinkFloydYoshi is working on that is kind of like a deviantART for Yoshi fans only.
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Post by red.yoshi on Nov 23, 2005 15:54:33 GMT -5
sweet = o. thats what i thought it looked like. im going to definatly join Despite the loss of my hand-eye coordination, I'm still pretty talented at painting words onto grains of rice.!
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Post by Graedius on Nov 25, 2005 4:25:04 GMT -5
Heh, it seems to be turning out very well, as I've mentioned before to you in private. Now just get rid of the symbol watermark in the chatroom log window and we'll be all good. >:3
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Post by Yink on Dec 10, 2005 17:09:22 GMT -5
It is very well done PFY, I'll join. ^^
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Post by anjilfan on Dec 10, 2005 20:18:27 GMT -5
I would like to join aswell.
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Post by PinkFloydYoshi on Dec 22, 2005 14:40:20 GMT -5
Heh, looking at security features now. Had an idea earlier that would be brilliant if used correctly, and I've never seen it before in anyone elses script. Because I don't want to give too much away, it requires analysing the member's IP address used to connect to the service over a period of a week. If this address changes too much, after a week, upon logging in, the user will be told to enter some secret information they entered at registration, to avoid illegal account activity, once entered correctly, they will be told that their address changes completely, frequently, and this stops the system from determining if the account is being accessed illegally or otherwise, and will ask the user a few questions on how they access the site, to help the system determine how to assess whether an account is being accessed illegally(From someone who doesn't own the account) or the user uses an isp to access the service, or logs on at different computers regularly.
Obviously, if they get the question wrong, they're immediately logged out and the account will be locked and the official account owner is told via email(or when they log in) that their account has been accessed illegally, and to get in touch with an admin for it to be unlocked.
This is a reminder to me, but it shows you I'm making progress.
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Post by Enrique on Dec 22, 2005 14:52:59 GMT -5
That sounds like a really good idea, Pink. It would probably take quite a while to code it all, though, but it would be worth it.
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Post by PinkFloydYoshi on Jan 3, 2006 17:09:26 GMT -5
I'm hoping it's all worth it anyway, heh. Still, opinion time again. Layout changed breifly and I need to know whether or not it's too much on one page. I personally think it is, but I dunno. Ideas? www.yoshicurio.com/beta/v430/ |
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Post by Enrique on Jan 3, 2006 17:37:16 GMT -5
Looking good so far. Only question: What's with all the empty space on the page? (I mean I realize that this is most likely the only visible web page on the site, but when people start to register for this, there should be more information in the seemingly empty right-hand section on the page, maybe introductory pictures or something. (I have no clue to be honest. =P))
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Post by Koshizu on Jan 3, 2006 19:17:12 GMT -5
RICHARD 'THE DUKE' MADELEY
Hmm...I think its coming along, not too sure of the colour scheme and the entire uh...width of the whole thing, but otherwise its taking good shape.
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