Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[WhoDo]

[HairyWill]

I haven't registered on the new site.

When I go to the latest news page it implies there are comments attached to some of the items, when I click on comments it takes me to a new page but I don't see any comments. It also says there is an RSS feed (excellent) but I don't see an rss icon or feed address.

Tom, a while back you said that wiki accounts would be transferred over automatically from the existing site so it was better not to register if you had a wiki account. Is this still the case? Do you have an approximate timescale for wiki migration?

Is Barry OK with the strapline "Welcome to the Home of Puppy Linux"?

Looks like it is coming together nicely and the manual seems well integrated, well done oli.

[ttuuxxx]

Hey Whodo I've been to stevenbinion (a puppy user on here Website) and really like his Xoops setup for downloads, Its really newbee friendly and works well, reminds me a bit like C/Net downloads,

I just wish that the whole puppy repository would be in such detail.
It could use a thumbnail that gives a full-Screen image when clicked, but other than that its really good.
ttuuxxx

oops it was this page
http://tekwolf.net/modules/wfdownloads/viewcat.php?cid=1

[tombh]

@HairyWill: Thanks for that, anonymous users can now read comments.

I've just made a new topic about the WIKI migration. As I say in the post I'm planning on doing the WIKI as a separate project, as it were, and so plan on doing it after the website has peaked on its development cycle. However, migrating the users could be done easily and quickly, maybe I will consider doing that soon or ask Prit. I'll look into it and let everyone know as soon as I can.

Anyway for now, it's fine if a couple of people sign up on the new site just to test out the new stuff -- they can always be deleted later.

[LOF]

[raffy]

@Tom
Thanks, things are going great, just two minor concerns:
- the blog URL above results to "Access denied". Is there an access page for blogs that will not cause this error?
- the screen resolution - is it a 1024x768 minimum? I wonder if it is helpful (or possible) to support an 800x600 resolution?

@HairyWill
Is "Puppy Linux Community" more appropriate? Barry uses this description: "the main Community-supported Puppy website".

[Béèm]

@WhoDo,

Thank you for the explanation.
I am not entirely sure that there can't be confusion, but time will tell.
Anyway the look is pretty and reposing fot the eyes.

Bernard

[floborg]

* Showing a screenshot from the vanilla 3.01 was a good idea. No false first impressions.

* Can this page be set up with some sort of a dynamic width? I'm looking at it with a screen res of 800x600 and it is too wide for a maximized Opera window.

[Béèm]

[WhoDo]

[HairyWill]

I think this highlights an important point. The battle over what is an acceptable image size could go on for ever. It would be useful to lay down some guidelines for editors of the new site at an early stage.
What is the largest image size that should be embedded in a page, if you really need bigger then it should be accessed through a link (thumbnail).
Will the new site be providing internal image storage space? (I hope so)
Will vanilla wiki users be able to store images? (could be expensive)

As to the users expected minimum screen size, surely monitors and graphics cards capable of 1024x768 are now ubiquitous and cheap even in the poorest of regions. I can see two reasons why someone might want to use a lower resolution, they have an eyesight problem or they are using some fancy non-standard device ie mini-sub notebooks. In both of these situations I see no reason that we should take a lowest common denominator approach. Browser extensions are available that can automatically resize images, perhaps we could publicise these.

[tombh]

@LOF: Yeah the password is an automatically generated one. And those flag images have been temporarily removed as they were remotely loaded from sites around the world (I just google-imaged for them) and oblivious noted that having strange URLs appearing during the loading process was a bit disconcerting. I'll definitely be using your suggestion of those flag pack things

@raffy: Anonymous users can now access the blogs. It is the superuser and administrator roles that can manage the access control page, if anyone wants to have a look. Also changed the lowest resolution to prevent side-scrolling and changed the home page title to "Puppy Linux Community".

@HairyWill: Internal image space is provided and currently vanilla users (as in ordinary registered users and not any old man and his dog) can upload images, I think that could be expensive too. There are a number of ways to make it 'harder' to upload images: basically either require users to ask for a specific role/privilege or make users accumulate 'points' through things like period registered, number of contributions (eg comments) etc.

Here are the W3C browser display statistics. As you can see 800x600 is still 14%. I had these stats in mind when I started the design and the site will (well it does now anyway!) stretch to all resolutions in between 800x600 and 1024x768. A 720px wide screenshot seems to fit nicely in both these extremes.

@800x600 users: How is the site looking now? Also what is the font-size like at these resolutions?

Image Size Standards
The screenshots mechanism automatically resizes all uploaded images and it is set to a maximum of 720px width. For images appearing in a sidebarred page the maximum is a 565px width.

[LOF]

[BarryK]

[floborg]