[website] Kudos for the new top menu.

Solar2D Daily Builds and Public Releases
#1

Boy was I happy to see the changes in the website this morning.

The not-so-obvious login button was replaced by something clear and I’m so happy to have the top menu bar to replace the good looking but incredibly not-useful popup window. This is sooooooo much more usable.

It’s not perfect yet, there are a lot of things that need fixed still, I won’t belabor the search thing, you’ve been pounded on it, but here are my issues with the website still.

I’m not happy about having to click on the main menu to get to a page where I can get to the forums. The forums may be the single most visited part of this site. Perhaps it needs a place in the top menu. At a minimum there needs to be a one click to get to it.

Once in the forums, please have the “recent posts” block open by default, or at a minimum set a cookie to remember our settings on it.

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#2

A few more as my send button got pressed a bit inadvertently?

Why can’t we edit our own top posts in the forum?

The forum page navigation, while cool and functional to have it at the top needs to also be at the bottom. It’s a real pain in the butt to scroll down a forum looking for topics only to have to scroll to the top again to go to page 2.

Maybe the dashboard would be a better landing page for logging in rather than our account info page, just put a link on the dashboard to get us to the account page.

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#3

I agree with what @robmiracle has said.

I didn’t like the blue text on black background, that the old site used for new forum posts. I’m glad to see that didn’t make it to the new site. [import]uid: 67839 topic_id: 27861 reply_id: 112825[/import]

#4

Hey Rob, I’ll pass this on on Monday.

Just to confirm, do you see an edit button at the bottom of the page for the original post? I still have it but in a new spot. Actually, will use puush to show it. (See bottom left.)

http://puu.sh/D3Xo (right below “save” and “preview”) - do you have that? [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 27861 reply_id: 112869[/import]

#5

No, I have a Save and a Preview button at the bottom.

noedit.png
While I’m reporting website issues… On http://coronalabs.com your <title> tag is empty killing any SEO you hope to gain. Should be an easy and high priority fix.

Today when I logged in, I got the old style login page. Yesterday I had a new style login page (which looks better, IMHO) (and it also has title tag problems, showing just a vertical | in the title --)

Here’s a novel idea about setting a login cookie, look us up and set our login cookie to expire when our subscription expires… I hate having to login every day (and re-login when I get a Firefox beta pushed out to me in the middle of the day) Little low hanging fruit that would make our lives much easier!!!

Thanks for listening.
Rob
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#6

Damn, OK, that’s clearly a big issue RE the edit situation.

I will also pass on the fact the title tag is empty >.
Thanks Rob - hopefully we can get all these things addressed in a timely manner. [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 27861 reply_id: 112934[/import]

#7

More issues…

The site no longer seems to have a unique style for a:visited links. While from a website design perspective, I almost never have a separate stile for a:visited from a, there are two places where this is very important… 1. The forums, which seems to have a separate style for a:visited which is cool… and 2. Daily Builds. Before I could see which release notes I had read quickly because visited links showed up in a different color. This let me quickly spot new builds without me having to remember the build number. Now a and a:visited are the same color and I have to actually try to remember what was the last build I downloaded (or worse have to go look it up!). Please bring this incredibly easy but visually important change back!
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#8

This is a pretty trivial website issue, but still it makes the site look un-professional. On the login page, the font combination and box size cuts off descenders on letters. In other words, in my email, the “g” in omnigeekmedia is getting whacked.

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#9

I am aware of the visited link issue and have brought it up so hopefully it will be addressed quickly. It’s one of the most irritating things to me, I find it really slows me down.

Thanks for the extra feedback, all this stuff is very important to know. [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 27861 reply_id: 113150[/import]

#10

On the main forum page, where it lists each forum and the last post from that forum, there needs to be some padding between the poster’s name and the time of the last post.

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#11

movieclip is missing from the Documentation. I realize the docs are for core API’s and not for external libraries, but it was there before and I now miss it.

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#12

Have brought up previous posts in last meeting and will bring these up in the next one; thanks Rob :slight_smile: [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 27861 reply_id: 113454[/import]

#13

Rob, we really appreciate all the feedback. We are working through it. Thanks.

David [import]uid: 10668 topic_id: 27861 reply_id: 113505[/import]

#14

My pleasure. I deal with websites by day and I want you guys to be the best you can be. Building websites is not easy work and there are hundreds of things that have to be checked and its not easy for a small set of people to find everything.
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