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Recent News

GoVegan 01 Apr 2008 22:55

I want to know if everybody aproves of the major edit I made. I made it so that the first 5 items on the old news page are displayed in the "Recent News" section on this page, automatically. So if somebody needs to add something to the recent news list, they must go to the old news page, and insert it there.

There is a problem with this method, and that is that on the actual "old news" page, some ugly codes, which I implemented to make this whole function work, are actually displayed. These codes are not displayed when including the page, just when viewing the actual page. If this doesn't make sense, please go to the "old news" page and then look at the start page to understand.

So, is this sacrifice worth the achievement, and does everybody approve?

Also, do we like the idea of it being on an "old news" page, or would we rather an "all news" page, in light of my recent change? And if people like the idea, do you want me to implement it onto the 68k portal of this site?

Cheers ~ James Kanjo

Another Thing...

GoVegan 01 Apr 2008 23:01

It is also notable that we can use this technique for the right-side bar/module that displays a "Featured Article" and "Did You Know" sections, which would remove the inconvenience of moving old ones to the old list, and adding a new one to the new list.

Yes? No? Maybe?

Re: Another Thing...

Socks 01 Apr 2008 23:32

How'd you do it? I've been wanting that kind of thing on my wiki. Actuall, I could view the source for both pages.

Here's a hint: If the edit makes life easier for people, it's good. As long as they know what to do. So, thanks, that makes it a lot easier.

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/Socks

Re: Another Thing...

GoVegan 01 Apr 2008 23:37

:D

Well, you can look at the source and do it for the DYK and the FA, I'll go do it for the 68k Recent News ;)

I'm glad I've been able to help!

Re: Another Thing...

Socks 02 Apr 2008 00:08

Is there a way to have it select an article to display, or how should I do that? Same with the DYK.

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/Socks

Re: Another Thing...

GoVegan 02 Apr 2008 00:13

You mean randomly? I don't think so.

But if you relate to the way I did it for recent posts, you could have it so that each article of the DYK is like one line, and you can make it display the most recent 3 DYKs. For the FA, you could have a page with previous FAs, and like suggested, just display the first one on that page.

Is that what you mean?

Re: Another Thing...

Socks 02 Apr 2008 00:21

Yeah, I think so. I'll go wok on it. If you get to it before I do, I won't be complainging, though ;).

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Minor Improvement

DarkerLine 02 Apr 2008 01:42

I made a few changes to make the "old news" page look pretty. Now, the actual template is located at inc:news, which is where news should be added. Both the start page and the oldnews page include this, but with different parameters that make it possible for one to only display the first five news items, and for the other to display all of them.

Re: Minor Improvement

GoVegan 02 Apr 2008 02:13

I tried to keep it consistent with the Featured Article, but it doesn't seem to work…

Re: Minor Improvement

DarkerLine 02 Apr 2008 02:16

The problem is with adding comments in the template.

Re: Minor Improvement

GoVegan 02 Apr 2008 02:28

Yes, I figured that. It seems comments are only possible when there is something else in the tag. If there is only comments in the tag, it displays the end of it. Problem solved though.

We seemed to have upgraded this part of the site. I will just go add that to the news list.

Re: Minor Improvement

DarkerLine 02 Apr 2008 02:26

Further changes: James and I have put the Did You Know… and Featured Article sections in the same format, with a page of archives for both.

Refactoring Includes

burr 02 Apr 2008 03:07

I just wanted to say you guys (DL, JK, and Socks) did an awesome job :D That's a pretty crafty solution, but it works quite nice.

Re: Refactoring Includes

GoVegan 02 Apr 2008 07:41

Hey thanks alot burr!

It really means a lot to me; as I have used this site as a resource so many times, it great to know that I have actually been able to give something back to the site.

Also because I don't get thanked for very often and it is a really nice feeling to be appreciated, AND being descibed as "awesome" is a great compliment!

I have to say, it was really really fun to be working as a team, where each of us were all adding our own bit to further the site, AT THE SAME TIME… it just goes to show how much further team-work will take you. This was a lot of fun to do.

I've been meaning to ask you burr, what is your display picture of? For some reason it reminds me of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy movie when Earth is about to be blown up.

Cheers ~ James Kanjo

Re: Refactoring Includes

burr 02 Apr 2008 18:25

Well, it's actually from a painting. I cropped the painting, rotated it 180°, and inverted the colors. I can't remember the exact painting, but I believe it was from a famous artist.

Re: Refactoring Includes

GoVegan 03 Apr 2008 22:44

Wow. I just re-inverted the colours and rotated it 180°. What I saw was ugly and distasteful (in my eyes). I'm impressed that you turned something 'ugly and distasteful' into something that looks like a high-quality photoshop image! That was really clever!

Re: Refactoring Includes

burr 03 Apr 2008 23:01

Even though I can't remember the exact painting, I remember that I liked it a lot — in fact, that's why I decided to use part of it for an avatar. There wasn't a whole lot of creativity on my part, just some simple editing in MS Paint.

Re: Refactoring Includes

GoVegan 03 Apr 2008 23:09

Well, I used MS Paint to return it to what it was… It comes down to general opinions of what we like, I guess. I hope you weren't offended by me, after all, what do I know about art? (That's nothing, in case you didn't know…)

Re: Refactoring Includes

burr 03 Apr 2008 23:38

I wasn't offended. Each of us has our own taste for art, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Re: Refactoring Includes

Socks 02 Apr 2008 22:45

I didn't do that much - I just looked at the code, figured out how it worked, and implemented it where necessary.

Also, I had to leave before I got anything real done.

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/Socks

Is this time for an update?

GoVegan 11 Jun 2008 08:43

With some occasional exceptions, any site news related to both sections of the site will just be mentioned here, instead of on both home pages. This decision was primarily made because it would be a considerable amount of work to have to keep both home pages updated simultaneously.

This was the case, I believe, before the "include solution" I integrated, and is not so much the case now. But I figured we should discuss it just to make sure (yes I KNOW this is a wiki and that we can do what we want, but I think there is some sort of appeal in working together to make decisions).

It is no longer difficult to put news on both sections of the site. That is, it is no longer the four step process it used to be, only being a two step process. It seems to me that it is uncommon to have news which applies to both portals of the site, and so the extra step process is no a real hassle (because it never really happens). Well, there has been lately — but really, how often does the stuff that we've all just been doing actually happen?

I reckon that there is not going to be any "global news" for a long time. Therefore, we should change the above message into this:

This section shows all news relative to this portal of the site, or any news which affects both portals of the site.

Cheers ~ James Kanjo

Re: Is this time for an update?

burr 11 Jun 2008 13:14

I suppose you are right, so feel free to go ahead and change it.

RECENT NEWS

GoVegan 12 Jun 2008 07:19

Note to Members: When you add some new content to the wiki, please try to remember to update the news so that it is current. All edits to the "Recent News" list must be made through the news page.

I was wondering, do we need to have messages addressing members on the front page? Does it look tacky to the general public who are not members?

And also, what sort of new content are we talking about? Do we mean things like typo fixes, or fixing routine glitches? Or do we mean adding new pages, deleting old pages, adding sections to pages?

Cheers ~ James Kanjo

Re: RECENT NEWS

burr 12 Jun 2008 11:28

I don't think that note is tacky; if anything, I think it's one more way to get people to start looking through the site. The reason that was added was because people would forget to update the homepage when they added some new content to the wiki, and that would make it look like the site hadn't been updated in a while. I think the main things that are newsworthy are new pages and significant page/site changes (such as your includes on the homepage), as well as new site members.

Right Sidebar

Zaphod Beeblebrox 16 Jun 2008 13:01

Alright, whoever changed the right sidebar with the "Getting Involved" and the "Did you know's" to be justified to both sides, please revert it back to left justified. It looks really bad like this. There are huge open gaps of words. Justifying like that should only be used when the text stretches widely, so you don't see huge gaps like that.

Re: Right Sidebar

burr 16 Jun 2008 13:43

You can change it by removing the [[==]]'s. It's actually on both of the homepages.

Did you know

RandomProductions 18 Jun 2008 17:09

I have a cool did you know sort of thing that I bet isn't mentioned anywhere in this wiki:

If you send a color picture to the calculator, the color will convert to the appropriate B&W dithering.

I found this out by sending a picture with a red block, a green block, and a blue block. It converted correctly to black and white. Do you think this would be something to add to the Did you know thing?

Re: Did you know

basickevin 18 Jun 2008 17:29

yes. that could be helpful for things like logo design, etc.

Tiny change

RandomProductions 03 Sep 2008 03:13

In case you haven't noticed, I changed the title of the home page (TI-83) from TI-Basic Developer Home: TI-83 to TI-Basic Developer Home: TI-83/84/+/SE

Re: Tiny change

GoVegan 03 Sep 2008 05:58

I've continued the discussion you are just starting up here, because I thought that this particular topic would need it's own discussion.

Top menu

RandomProductions 11 Sep 2008 03:59

Someone broked the top menu! I know why it broke, but it can be fixed, right?

I hate to picky, but it doesn't look good.

Re: Top menu

GoVegan 11 Sep 2008 05:42

I'm guessing that you have a small monitor/screen resolution, and the top-menu appears to be on two lines?

Re: Top menu

RandomProductions 11 Sep 2008 23:51

1024x768, on a monitor just barely under 12" diagonal. It only started with the new menu item.

Re: Top menu

GoVegan 03 Oct 2008 01:38

I changed the CSS code and now when you have a small browser window, the top-navigator maintains it's size and shape. Instead you need to scroll horizontally to see the cut off section (if any).

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