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EAH_XxHeReTiKxX

06-Aug-2006 16:00

Some important things I think should be addressed here on JKHub.net

Here on JKHub.net, the size of a file is reflected in bytes. Would it not make more sense to display the file size in kilobytes, as more people are familiar with the kilobyte? Surely we don't all need to know the exact size of downloads, down the the very byte. This can be done by dividing the result of filesize() by 1000:

kbsize = filesize($file)/1000;

In this example of a file where no file is included, merely a link to an external page not hosted on JKHub.net

http://www.jkhub.net/manual/index.php?manual=5

The 'Download' field simply shows a bullet point and a null value of bytes for the file size. In your JKHub file admin for manuals, when adding a manual or any file for the matter, you should have the option 'Is this file hosted on JKHub.net or elsewhere?' in which case the normal field where download version and size is reflected would be replaced by a 'This file is hosted offsite' message.
On the 'Image of Glory' section ( http://www.jkhub.net/iog ), every page except page 5 has the captions for images in a larger size than on page 5. This inconsistancy should be repaired.

A few other IoG issues
When viewing a image, the information about it under the image is stored in a table that has a visually upsetting ugly border size. The table for the image itself also has the same border size(The same is true for the image of glory gallery pages, the images are surrounded with the same ugly large border). I do believe that for the image, the border should be alot smaller, like 1px, and the table below it showing the additional information about the image should also have a small border or 0px invisible border. That table should also be padded a few px more.
When viewing an image, at the top where pages are shown like this:

Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

The page you were last on is reflected in surrounding brackets like this, for example:

Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | [5]

Indicating of course, that the last page I was on was page 5, where I clicked the image I am currently viewing.

I see that on pages, the curpage value is passed to the image view page in order to add those surrounding brackets(indicating of course, the page the image I'm viewing is shown on).

Is this really nessecary? Does the user need to know what page he/she was last on? After all, the previous page is only a back button away.

Why on image pages is the gallery page reflected in surrounding brackets, and not just in the color white like the way it is done on the gallery pages themselfs?
Another IoG thing: Passing a page= value not present should generate an error, like that the requested page does not exist. The same should be done for all erroneous numeric page value requests throughout the entire JKHub website.
When viewing an editor's profile(forums/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=[uid]) fields that don't have values have anything in them are blank. Would it not be more suitable to insert a value like "N/A" or "None"?

For example:

if($editor[$i]['user_msnm'] != "") { echo $editor[$i]['user_msnm']; } else { echo "None"; }
Another Thing on the Editors page; a cool field to have, possibly adjacent to 'Registered' would be 'Last Login', as a way of seeing who is active, because you would be able to list members by last login by allowing the use of user_lastlogin in the accepted sort+ values in editor/index.php. I'm not positive it's user_lastlogin, best you check before grabbing info from places that don't exist.

Just some thoughts there, I wil add more as I find other stuff.

ReT

Acharjay

07-Sep-2006 06:09

A solid list of ideas, ReT, especially the Last Logon field.

I'll just put my suggestions/questions in here rather than starting a new thread:

1. It'd be logical to have a list of a user's projects for view in their profile. I thought this would be the first thing anybody thought of. Is it possible?

2. The logo at the top is very cool. I love the way it makes your project look like it's a part of the Jedi Knight universe, and how expands and shrinks seamlessly depending on the size of the title.
Recently, that little grey line has appeared. Is it intentional
Edit: Ahahaha, it's because of IE. Nevermind.

Giraffe
Site Developer

30-Sep-2006 23:59

Acharjay wrote:

1. It'd be logical to have a list of a user's projects for view in their profile. I thought this would be the first thing anybody thought of. Is it possible?

It was one of the first things we thought of, but we've never got around to replacing the stock phpBB profile page. There is a new one being developed. An early preview of it is here:
http://www.jkhub.net/editor/profile.php?user=acharjay

[Edit: okay, bad example if you have no projects. Try the page for me: http://www.jkhub.net/editor/profile.php?user=giraffe ]

Acharjay

07-Oct-2006 09:47

Nice, that's what I'm talking about.

And yeah, heh. No projects yet - when I get back to my computer I might start dabbling.

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