| Author | Message | ||
     Rob Bond |
"What's New" Website Section ? Gene, Brendan, Val, Is there a "What's New" section on the site? I see a "News" section that contains the Newsletters, but what about a place of announcing things like the addition of Brendan's RV Journal (http://www.groovelily.com/tales/brendansrvjournal.html) or the addition of the new information about the GrooveLily Cruise (http://www.groovelily.com/cruise.html)? ---- Rob | ||
| Gene Lewin (Gene) |
Now there is Rob! I just added a "What's New On The Web Site" page and a link to it next to the "last updated:" date on the main page. Each time I update the site, I'll make sure this page reflects the latest changes. Hope this helps!  Thanks for the suggestion, -Gene | ||
| Rob Bond |
Gene, Thanks! The "What's New" page looks great. It should be a big help to all us frequent visitors. Your turn around is incredible (as is your playing ) --- Rob | ||
| Rob Bond |
Gene, Val, Brendan, Would it be possible to indicate on the Gigs page whether a show is booked with the 3-piece or the 5-piece configuration of the band? I know it would be more work to do this, but as a fan this would be really nice to know. Thanks! Rob | ||
| Gene Lewin (Gene) |
Absolutely Rob ... we've been planning on it. Sometimes we're not sure at the time of booking whether the gig will be a 3-piece or 5-piece, but we can certainly add it when we know ... it's on my list of stuff to do whenever I get time, which I should probably retitle stuff to do even though I never have time! Thanks, -Gene | ||
| Dave |
Mr. Lewin (webmaster deluxe) -- is it possible to have the latest (unread?) topics rise to the top of the page? I hope that is clear enough. It would make it easier to find the stuff I haven't seen yet. Just a thought. See you next week! ;-)))) | ||
| Gene Lewin (Gene) |
Dave; I totally understand. This is basically a question of whether to "cater" to the regular viewer or the new viewer. It's definitely a toss up. My initial thinking was that a return viewer would know that the newer stuff is at the bottom, while a new viewer might prefer to read the thread in the order in which it was written, and might get confused if stuff is in reverse chronological order. Make sense? Looking forward to seeing you in SC! -Gene | ||
| JimGreenlees |
Would it be possible (and not much trouble?) to add dates on the "What's New" items? Once we get a bit into the month, the home page shows a "What's New" update, but it gets hard to tell what has been added. While it's still fun to go through the items listed for the month, my mind sometimes can't keep track of what's changed since the last update. It's either oncoming senility or not enough drugs in the '60s, I'm not sure JimG | ||
| Gene Lewin (Gene) |
I hear ya Jim! I'll be happy to start adding dates to the "what's new page" ... probably something like "last updated" next to each link; look for it and let me know if it makes sense. Thanks, -Gene P.S. Couldn't it be both the onset of senility AND not enough drugs? | ||
| Gene Lewin (Gene) |
Just started adding "last updated" dates to the "what's new" page, as well as a little javascript on the gigs page so that a newly added gig has a little "new" graphic that goes away once it's been on the page for 2 weeks or more. Let me know what you guys think ... is the rotating "new" good, annoying, or both? Cheers, -Gene | ||
| Rob Bond |
Gene, I like it! It's a great way to see what's new. BTW, the feature appears not to work on (your favorite) Netscape 4.7x. -- Rob | ||
| Gene Lewin (Gene) |
Thanks Rob ... that pesky Netscape 4.x! Just fixed it; also removed the "new" graphic from the printer-friendly version of the page. -Nerdy Webmaster Geno | ||
| meg numata |
wow -- webmaster, geno. love them new bells and whistles all over the website! very impressive. someone's been burning the midnight bytes since their return to the homebase. really great work, gene. just a small question (you knew that was coming ) i noticed when i logged onto the site via internet explorer i got this great intro with music. which is sadly lacking when using the accursed netscape 4.x. wouldn't matter much except that i like to be able to show friends the site and internet explorer isn't always in use when i go to access the internet on other people's computers. when i mentioned it, brendan did say "oh, you just need the puddyafatzacagonatti file to view it." i nodded and smiled. huh??? - meg | ||
| Gene Lewin (Gene) |
If only microsoft would underwrite the band ... at least I'd have an excuse! The puddyafatzacagonatti file (made me laugh out loud, btw!) is the macromedia flash plugin, which is required to play the awesome animation that Brendan created. You can download it here. Your query did lead me to go test it, and of course unearthed another problem; our flash plugin detector was only working up to flash version 5, and they now have version 6, so I fixed our detector at the same time ... good catch Meg! Now, I just have to gonculate the fibrulator on the server's gear shifter interface, and I'll be all done. See ya! -Gene | ||
| meg numata |
o web guru, you make it all run smooth. i now have the intro up and running through netscape. i did have the puddyafatzacagonatti file, as it turns out, but -- you guessed it -- it was release 6! and while you're at it, could you please re-fasticulate the forminitruncle of the BRT? thanks. meg | ||
| Dave Florio |
you silly guys | ||
| Jon Daniels (Padeadhead) Senior Member Username: Padeadhead Post Number: 44 Registered: 5-2003 |
Oh fearless webmaster... How dazed and confused are the rushes of neurons in my brain when entering the gigs discussions... Oh how those conversation topics for shows are so hard to find... OH the joy my over-scrolled fingers would experience if all the gig threads had titles created with consistency such that they would appear in order by date or by city name or by venue name, alleviating the anguish a wandering scroll bar causes when looking for the gig discussion from which I seek enlightenment... how great it would be if every time a new gig was posted to the gigs page that a matching conversation would be created in the gigs discussion, allowing for uniform, consistent gig conversation titles. | ||
| Gene Lewin (Gene) Moderator Username: Gene Post Number: 42 Registered: 2-2001 |
Hey Jon! I hear ya ... it would be great if the discussion board gig topics were consistently named ... but I don't love your idea for three reasons: (1) There are plenty of gigs where a discussion board topic is never created ... it would look a little odd to have lots of empty discussions sitting around ... remember, the site is our calling card in a lot of ways. (2) The discussion board is for our listeners / fans. I like that each topic is created by a human, even if it's inconsistently named. It strikes me as a little too "big brother" to have programmatically created discussion topics. (3) I'm lazy. But thanks for your thoughts ... always appreciated! -Webmaster Gene | ||
| Jon Daniels (Padeadhead) Senior Member Username: Padeadhead Post Number: 45 Registered: 5-2003 |
Yeah, okay, empty discussions would be futile, and likely counterproductive. And I'm lazy too--so I like that reason also. And remember, if you ever need help with some web work, I'm a web developer/architect/programmer by trade and would be glad to help out (voluntarily) where I can. jd | ||
| Gene Lewin (Gene) Moderator Username: Gene Post Number: 43 Registered: 2-2001 |
Thanks Jon! -Gene | ||
| Adam Lasnik (Thatadamguy) New member Username: Thatadamguy Post Number: 3 Registered: 5-2005 |
I'd like to offer a respectful "me too" to the earlier posted suggestion regarding making recently-posted-to topics float to the top. That's just what I'm used to on all other boards, and thus your setup here was pretty confusing and counterintuitive to me. | ||
| David Kowalski (David) Senior Member Username: David Post Number: 185 Registered: 12-2001 |
Well, speaking as someone who's on this discussion board more than most people, I'd have to recommend finding new posts via the Search page available under Utilities on the left-hand menu. You can search for messages that were posted within the last X days/hours/minutes or, if you're a registered user, you can have the system keep track of when you last searched and it will tell you everything that's new since the last time you looked. For a discussion board that's as active (and has as many threads) as this one usually is, there's no way I'd keep on top of things if I had to manually go to each thread and look for new messages, regardless of whether they were on the top or the bottom. FWIW, I prefer the oldest first ordering on the individual threads (which, BTW, is what I find is the norm on any of the other boards on I'm) because if there are multiple posts in a single thread since you last checked, it seems to make more sense to read down through a post and then keep reading down to the next post. (My $0.02...your mileage may vary). Hope that helps... --David |
