New Site Feedback, Discussion, Problem Reports - Page 18

crlorentzen · Apr 22, 2008, 09:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zardon

have you any more info to help us look into this?

Test case
1. Open Firefox
2. goto www.driverheaven.net
3. Click on the News link to goto driverheaven news.
4. Note the top headline, now click on the RSS Icon on the top right, note that the top headline is not the same.

Tested Tuesday, April 22nd 2008 @ 10:51PM EDT (US East Coast)
Top News Item 'Twitter Japan launches, with ads'
Top Item on RSS 'radeon hd 2400 pro agp driver issues'

Edit tested in FF3, FF2 and Thunderbird 2.0.0.12.

***craig5320*** · Apr 23, 2008, 03:23 AM

Hi, the RSS feed link shows latest threads/post right across DH, if you're looking for a specialised news feed you need this link: http://www.driverheaven.net/external...ss2&forumid=21 the difference is the &forumid=21

We will be looking at having the RSS button integrated to provide a feed for the forum you're in very shortly. Sorry about the inconvienience.

Thanks

Craig

crlorentzen · Apr 23, 2008, 06:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by craig5320

Hi, the RSS feed link shows latest threads/post right across DH, if you're looking for a specialised news feed you need this link: http://www.driverheaven.net/external...ss2&forumid=21 the difference is the &forumid=21

We will be looking at having the RSS button integrated to provide a feed for the forum you're in very shortly. Sorry about the inconvienience.

Thanks

Craig

Okay, so the RSS limitation is known, my question then becomes, how did you build that rss link for news? Is there a button that a normal user would click, or do we just need to know how your php script works so that we give the appropriate input?

EDIT: and what link would I look at, for the specific forum id? Every forum link I see has a human readable name for the forum. Like news is 'http://www.driverheaven.net/news/' how do you convert that 'news' to 21?

***craig5320*** · Apr 23, 2008, 11:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crlorentzen

Okay, so the RSS limitation is known, my question then becomes, how did you build that rss link for news? Is there a button that a normal user would click, or do we just need to know how your php script works so that we give the appropriate input?

EDIT: and what link would I look at, for the specific forum id? Every forum link I see has a human readable name for the forum. Like news is 'http://www.driverheaven.net/news/' how do you convert that 'news' to 21?

As you correctly said the links are friendly url's, on a standard vbulletin install you would see the id in the link to the forum, however you can find the forum id's at this link in the archive, they appear in the links displayed there: http://www.driverheaven.net/archive/index.php/

The rss feed comes from the External Data Provider which is a less well known part of vBulletin and as such there's no real documentation for the enduser it's more the admin's role to provide neccessary links.

If you alter the link to read &forumids= you can seperate multiple forum id's with a comma like so: http://www.driverheaven.net/external...orumids=131,21

This should display both news and gaming news in the same feed.

Hope this helps you.

Craig

CDsDontBurn · Apr 24, 2008, 02:23 AM

so, i'm sure this is a known issue has been posted before somewhere in this thread and i think i made a post on this already as well but i do not remember. well, basically at the top of each page on the quick links, some of them do not appear to work correctly. the "articles," "tools," and "network" (highlighted red) all have a drop down menu, however the remaining options "home," "reviews," "news," "games," and "forum" (highlighted green) do not have this drop down menu. these other links that do not have this drop down menu still has the last drop down showing up from the item that was last hovered over.

so, a friend of mine who lurks DH from time to time made a note of that and sent me the following code via email that he thinks would remedy that issue. below is the text cut-and-pasted as is straight from the email i received.

Quote:

The following code begins on line 126 of the current homepage code. I believe the following should fix it, but I have no way of testing it since I don't have the server at my disposal. if the '#default' code doesn't work, a plain old '#' might.

Hopefully this can remedy the ugly issue where sections not supposed to have submenu content pull the last valid submenu on rollover

<ul id="maintab" class="basictab">
<li rel="#default"><a href="http://www.driverheaven.net"><img src="styles/midnight/misc/header/buttons/home.gif" border="0" /></a></li>

<li rel="#default"><a href="reviews.php"><img src="styles/midnight/misc/header/buttons/reviews.gif" border="0" /></a></li>

<li rel="articles"><a href="#"><img src="styles/midnight/misc/header/buttons/articles.gif" border="0" /></a></li>

<li rel="#default"><a href="news.php"><img src="styles/midnight/misc/header/buttons/news.gif" border="0" /></a></li>

<li rel="tools"><a href="#"><img src="styles/midnight/misc/header/buttons/tools.gif" border="0" /></a></li>

<li rel="#default"><a href="http://gaming.driverheaven.net"><img src="styles/midnight/misc/header/buttons/games.gif" border="0" /></a></li>

<li rel="#default"><a href="forum.php"><img src="styles/midnight/misc/header/buttons/forum.gif" border="0" /></a></li>

<li rel="network"><a href="#"><img src="styles/midnight/misc/header/buttons/network.gif" border="0" /></a></li>
</ul>

***craig5320*** · Apr 24, 2008, 03:28 AM

Hi CDs,

The menu is intentionally designed that way, so it's not an ugly issue, it's a hci design. The beta team voted for this over a menu which dissappears as you roll off the option as there is nothing more frustrating than a menu that resets if you sway 1 pixel from it.

So I'm afraid in this case, the menu won't be changing.

Thanks for your input tho, it's always welcome.

Craig

Mousey · Apr 25, 2008, 04:32 AM

I've noticed that clicking on the System Specs for my own system links me back to the homepage, can this be fixed or do i need to clean my cookies? :S

***Zardon*** · Apr 25, 2008, 05:41 AM

i just clicked your system specs on both IE and Opera, works fine here.

[hobo]eclipse · Apr 26, 2008, 02:53 AM

was there a slight change to cosmoheaven?

***Zardon*** · Apr 26, 2008, 04:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by [hobo]eclipse

was there a slight change to cosmoheaven?

in regards to what specifically ?

[hobo]eclipse · Apr 26, 2008, 04:14 AM

the main backround color seems to have a slightly more blueish grey tone? or am i getting loopy? it used to have a hint of greenish in it before didn't it?

***Zardon*** · Apr 26, 2008, 04:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by [hobo]eclipse

the main backround color seems to have a slightly more blueish grey tone? or am i getting loopy? it used to have a hint of greenish in it before didn't it?

ermm no, nothing has changed recently buddy.....

[hobo]eclipse · Apr 26, 2008, 04:51 AM

o well 3 am surfing will do that i guess! LOL still looks a lil different to me none the less(not bad at all mind you). doent the site go down for about a min every morning at about 3am or so US easteren time? i noticed what i though was a change right after that.

***craig5320*** · Apr 26, 2008, 11:16 AM

The site shouldn't go down at all no, the time you state is around 8am GMT which would be the time various maintenance/backup scripts would be executing but they should be limited so as not to effect performance so I Will take a look at that.