Those of you who follow us on twitter @gamingonlinux will know I have been working on a new website for us for many reasons
It is now ready for wider testing: www.prxa.info
Please tell me of any bugs you find and give your suggestions.
I am aiming to have it live by the end of the month.
Features not in:
Editors can't yet auto post to front page without the post going in my admin queue.
No share to social networks on articles.
Ignore:
Ignore messed up bbcode styling on home page articles, it's from the importer from this software which i will clean up as i go (not doing it now as it will be wiped and re-imported before it goes live)
I need from you lot:
More logos! At the moment we are only using one logo the christmas themed one but usually we have 3 in rotation, I want more so submit them if you fancy getting your work on here!
Why?
The website is not for me, but for everyone, can we make it a group effort? Either way this current website has to be replaced due to:
1)The software costs money
2)It's hard to style and extend as i don't know the code
3)It's not being updated by the authors for security fixes, bugs etc
4)The software itself may not be legal, vbulletin is suing xenforo Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
It is now ready for wider testing: www.prxa.info
Please tell me of any bugs you find and give your suggestions.
I am aiming to have it live by the end of the month.
Features not in:
Editors can't yet auto post to front page without the post going in my admin queue.
No share to social networks on articles.
Ignore:
Ignore messed up bbcode styling on home page articles, it's from the importer from this software which i will clean up as i go (not doing it now as it will be wiped and re-imported before it goes live)
I need from you lot:
More logos! At the moment we are only using one logo the christmas themed one but usually we have 3 in rotation, I want more so submit them if you fancy getting your work on here!
Why?
The website is not for me, but for everyone, can we make it a group effort? Either way this current website has to be replaced due to:
1)The software costs money
2)It's hard to style and extend as i don't know the code
3)It's not being updated by the authors for security fixes, bugs etc
4)The software itself may not be legal, vbulletin is suing xenforo Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 7020, member: 1"I changed article headers to the same style we have here now and i agree it looks loads better thanks for the tip!
Just an idea, maybe the background should be coloured according to the category? I can't say whether that'd look good, but might be something interesting to try and decide on.
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Sorry for triple posting, but just noticed a bug - the images are shown far too big to make any sense - the McDroid one takes more space outside the postbox than inside.
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No need to say sorry for triple posting it's acceptable in this one I want to get it sorted ASAP and I think you are right the text is smaller but checking my style and this forum both have 13px so i don't get it hrmm.
I also removed the redundant Main Menu block as well since it didn't really serve a purpose as all other links are in the nav anyway now. Saves some nice space.
Text - changed to the same font we use here it's a bit bigger now and more familiar :)
Avatars for wrong people fixed on comments.
Dates are now parsed nicer as well - awesome idea.
I also removed the redundant Main Menu block as well since it didn't really serve a purpose as all other links are in the nav anyway now. Saves some nice space.
Text - changed to the same font we use here it's a bit bigger now and more familiar :)
Avatars for wrong people fixed on comments.
Dates are now parsed nicer as well - awesome idea.
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also the marked "headers" could use some work:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28788188/Screenshot-562.png
maybe different color for text and slightly smaller cuz it seems too big atm.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28788188/Screenshot-562.png
maybe different color for text and slightly smaller cuz it seems too big atm.
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Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 7016, member: 1"Agreed I will make the comments have stuff like avatars :)
About that, I have a few concerns with that part of the new website in general. I usually much prefer websites where you get a base article and then go to a separate forum thread where you post comments rather than just a standard comment box. It tends to cut down on garbage posting and actually allows for more proper discussion on a topic (or in the case of Phoronix, it makes it so that the discussions are not 100% pure gobshite).
I like much of what is going on there, especially as an (occasional) content producer as what you are doing does make it look a lot more friendly and professional for potential article/review/interview writers. But that point does concern me a bit. I do not know if anyone is with me on that though.
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Well it wouldn't be hard to implement I will have a think on it, a lot has been improved already.
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Its looks are a lot less polished than the current site and the color scheme isn't very pleasant neither. Anyway, it looks promising. Still, I wonder why none of the opensource forum/portals was good enough, it takes a lot of work and time into creating your own.
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