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Paul,
This is a great idea. As the operator/programmer of the CTB, I definitely get jaded in my vision of the board. Because of this I may not see what is obvious to first time and regular visitors.
Paul has already been very helpful by pointing out some registration bugs, and also suggesting that we give a more affirmative indication of your "Login" status on each page.
All of the code that makes the CTB work is custom coded from scratch by me, so you get the benefit of doing almost anything you want, but without some of the benefits of "off the shelf" packages that other sites use.
For me I prefer the custom approach and I welcome hearing about things that are working, could work better, or simply need to be added.
So as Paul said :
"What would you change/add/remove from this site to make it easier to navigate, more helpful, or more informative?"
Give me your honest feedback, and we can prioritize a list to work on to make the CTB your Board for your tractor addiction.
Regards,
Dennis
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Yes the current home page was supposed to a temporary page, it needs to be redone, I plan to use my new digital camera to help make it more inviting.
Over the last weekend thru today I have been working on displaying the user profile. If you go to the "messages as posted" page I now have links to the users profile on each users name. I also have created a change profile page that you can get to from the "myProfile" menu item or when you view someones profile. It will take a couple of days for me to spread this out to all the other pages. Take a look and let me know what you think.
On your last item, are you talking about the full text message listing or another page?
Thanks for your feedback I will do my best to be responsive to your input
Dennis
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Recap of changes:
1) Jazz up the Home page
2) More Pictures
3) Create another messages as posted view to be defined by Cutter
4) Add more features to the Search item like search in message text
5) Look into allowing users to upload picture images to the CTB
6) Change the defaults to "do not notify" and "do not display" or make these set at the User level rather than at the message level.
7) Number the pages for messages as posted and other screens and allow for picking a particular page << page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >>
8) Ability to preview and or edit your own messages with an message edited indicator.
9) Correct the profile to allow for single quotes
Dennis
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Improvements/Changes:
Now up on the menu bar your userid or your unregistered status is displayed on each screen, Thanks to Paul (pbenven)
The today and fullthread pages have links to each posters profile/bio, we also display post counts now. Each of you can edit your profiles as you like.
Names of Unregistered users on these pages (above) are in italics.
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I just completed a new home page which is the page you come to if you access jplan.com or you click on "home" item in the top menu. Thank you to Cutter for this suggestion.
It includes the top ten posters in the last week or so plus their message count and a link to their messages. I hope you like it. I plan on putting more pix in all the board categories.
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I have modified the new Homepage to include a "Hot Topics" list box which displays the subjects with most posts in the last 5 days in "most posts order" you can go the subject by clicking on the Subject in the list. You can scroll it to see about 50 subjects.
Would anyone like to see the same thing for "unanswered" posts??
I also put a direct link to the "Messages as Posted" and "Active Subjects" pages right above it.
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bigbukntr,
Sorry about that! I have been making so many changes that I inadvertently overwrote a new file with an old version. But I think all is well now and I set up an account for you, you need to check your email for it, you need to login when you get here again, and you can change your password under the "myProfile" menu item
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I have made another change to the homepage. It now also has a listbox with the "messages as posted" as well as "hot subjects"
Dennis
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The Home page has multiple purposes:
-- It is the first page that new visitors see
-- It should have some dynamic content that should be of interest to current users.
It would help me to know which pages you guys have set up as your "favorites" link and I might be able to make that page more useful for you. So please tell me the address you are using:
Discussion jplan.com/cgi-bin/tractor/summary.pl
As Posted jplan.com/cgi-bin/tractor/today.pl
Active jplan.com/cgi-bin/tractor/main.pl
or other page.
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Dennis
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Thanks Cutter and others,
The "messages as posted" page now has a Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...20" at the bottom that allows you go back and forth thru the last 20 pages or 1800 hundred messages in posted order. The page you are on is in Bold after you pick apage other than page one.
I will try to get this on the other boards /forums
Dennis
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Peters,
I redid the page you goto if you just link to http://jplan.com, so now it no longer does the auto redirect, and it has the Google Safe Search at the bottom, and a picture of a JD 790 in the middle.
I know,I know awful lot of green pix, I will get some none green pics soon I promise!
Dennis
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The member profile page now accepts single quotes and double quotes in the text and also supports carriage returns fro paragraphs.
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Paul,
I made both of those changes, the post count now refects the number of posts up to the time of post you are on was made, so the number increases in any thread where you post more than once.
Thanks for the input.
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Paul,
Is that what you wanted??? In regards to the message count for each user?
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