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Dave
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  		   Posted 5/12/2008 11:56 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
To test drive the new SFReader site!
 
Built on the open source DotNetNuke portal platform, the new site offers a host of integrated features:
Articles with auto-archiving
Member blogs (once you register, you can get your own blog!)
Easy searching/paging of reviews
 
Available if the demand is there:
Classifieds
Chat
Forum (willl not integrate with existing!  shakehead )
Events Calendar
Links Directory
Surveys
Wiki
Newsfeeds
Photo Gallery
 
and much more....
 
Check out out, make your wish list, let me know what you think:
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H.P. Lovesauce
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  		   Posted 5/12/2008 1:01 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Looks good! I'd love to have the current forums archived somewhere, but you know. Chat would be nice, and the wiki component would get people cracking on the sword & sorcery wiki proposed earlier.

The only major change you might consider is raising the reviews to the top of the middle section so that important aspect of the site is foregrounded.
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  		   Posted 5/12/2008 3:27 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Hey, FYI...Current front page
http://www.sfreader.com/
viewed by firefox has this gibberish...

ADODB.Recordset error '800a0cc1'
Item cannot be found in the collection corresponding to the requested name or ordinal.
/indexsfr.asp, line 105

Lyn from ResAliens
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Lyn
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  		   Posted 5/12/2008 3:33 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
As for http://sfreader.com/default.aspx
I like the streamlined site, but agree with HP that the book reviews should be front and center, with forum threads on the side? Also, is Pete going to upload new reviews as they come in, like at The Fix, and simply push the older ones down the list? That might be a good approach, then again like The Fix, you can put text links of older reviews on the side or something...Just a suggestion.

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  		   Posted 5/12/2008 3:34 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
H.P. Lovesauce said...
Looks good! I'd love to have the current forums archived somewhere, but you know. Chat would be nice, and the wiki component would get people cracking on the sword & sorcery wiki proposed earlier.

The only major change you might consider is raising the reviews to the top of the middle section so that important aspect of the site is foregrounded.


I'm with HP on this one -- I was just thinking that, actually. :)

Oh and Lyn, you need to follow the link directly from Dave's post to get to the new site -- I imagine there's still a bit of conflict with the old site, hence the error message you (and I) see.

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  		   Posted 5/12/2008 3:42 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Gotcha...and we have to register there to comment on reviews, right? That is, our sfreader forum registration doesn't transfer over.

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Dave
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  		   Posted 5/12/2008 3:58 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
The error is fixed; due to my tinkering with a DB view which I'd altered so it would work on the new site.

No, review comments work the same way on the new site as on the old; simply click the 'Add Comment' button at the bottom of the review (underneath the Amazon links). A window will pop up with the comment form.

If you want to comment on or rate the articles, FB reviews, or Suspended Animation, you do have to register, as though are added to the site through an integrated article manager.

Likewise, the free blog also requires registration. Additional features (classified, chat, wiki, etc) will also require registration in order to use (not view, but actually use as in add/edit stuff)

There is no sharing of users between the current forum and the new site. A registration on the current for DOES NOT carry over to a registration on the new site. The new portal comes with a forum feature which I could implement, but it would be a restart with nothing carrying over from the old one. I'm not inclined to do that now, though if the community wanted it, I would do it.

So yes, in order to use some of the advanced features of the new site, and the current forum, you would have to maintain two separate registrations.

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crystalwizard
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  		   Posted 5/12/2008 6:46 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Under the browse reviews section, I'd like an option to choose whether the list will be a text list or a list with thumbnails. When there are a lot of things in a list, I prefer just links and text instead of having to scroll through pages and pages of thumbnails.

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  		   Posted 5/12/2008 6:48 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I don't see anywhere on the author interviews page to suggest an author we'd like to have interviewed. Would you be adverse to adding a suggestion box sort of feature?

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  		   Posted 5/12/2008 6:50 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
re: the registration page. You need to implement spam prevention for registration very soon. The spambots are going to find the page since it's not password protected and start creating fake accounts.

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  		   Posted 5/12/2008 6:51 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
What all's planned for the SFWiki?

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  		   Posted 5/12/2008 6:53 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Dave said...

Forum (willl not integrate with existing! VIEW IMAGE )


Can we see a demo of what the forum that comes with it would look like and play with it a bit? I'm currently voting for just linking to the current forum but maybe it would be nicer (we could put this one in archive mode maybe, so we could still read the old posts)
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Dave
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  		   Posted 5/12/2008 10:41 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Howdy

The browse pages only show 10 at a time. No easy way to switch between thumbsnails and list right now, only go with one or the other. You can narrow by last name or other factors. Hopefully that will be enough for now. Will cast about for a way to customize listings.

Suggest authors for interviews seems premature, considering there are only a few done in the last two years. Maybe if I can get some people doing interviews. I wil change that I think to just INterviews, adn we can do authors, editors, artists and more.

Turned on verification for registration. Now users will have to reply to an email to activate teh account. That should stop most of hte spam.

Will add you to SF Wiki. No plans on my part. Like to see what the commnunity comes up with.

Will also add a demo forum so you can tinker.

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UnclePete
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  		   Posted 5/12/2008 10:50 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
CW, the idea of the wiki was the sword and sorcery one we had previously discussed -- or at least that was one suggestion - we could make it whatever, I imagine.

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  		   Posted 5/12/2008 11:25 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Posted first blog entry!

EDIT - and added first wiki entry. :)

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  		   Posted 5/13/2008 12:08 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Pete, is there a page with rules or anything for the Wiki? Or maybe the S&S discussion we all had distilled into a single page as guidelines?
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  		   Posted 5/13/2008 12:11 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Code wierdness on the wiki menu, Dave. I see this:

 Search

next to the magnifying glass icon.

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  		   Posted 5/13/2008 12:21 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
crystalwizard said...
Pete, is there a page with rules or anything for the Wiki? Or maybe the S&S discussion we all had distilled into a single page as guidelines?


there's nothing yet. I'll have a look at the old thread and see if we can condense.

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That looks very sleek indeed!

If the old forum doesn't integrate, maybe we could keep it as locked archive while the new one grows. A well-working chat would definitely be a good addition. Anyway, it's cool.

(Nitpick: On the story contest page, the font suddenly shifts to Courier, then back to Arial/Helvetica.)

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  		   Posted 5/13/2008 9:49 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
fixed the incomplete non-breaking space tag on the Wiki

The font change on the guidelines is how the font in blockquote tags are formatted by default.

Put up a test forum for people to play around with

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  		   Posted 5/13/2008 10:14 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
the new site isn't keeping me logged in. Can that be implemented? It's annoying to have to re-login to a site every time I restart my browser. it's also not 'remembering' my login even though I click the 'remember me' checkbox each time I login. It saved my account fine when I registered, but the login fields aren't automatically filled in like they should be.

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Dunno what the deal is with the remember me - it's not remembering me either in Firefox. It seems to work in IE though (at least IE 6). Actually, once I've logged in and clicked remember me, it won't let me log out!

However, neither one seems to recall my username and password automatically in the form.

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  		   Posted 5/13/2008 11:08 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
made some test posts to the forum. A couple minor irritations with the rich text editor interface. Nothing critical.

Question:

On here, you have the main forum divided into multiple forums with their own threads. Can you do the same on the new interface?

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  		   Posted 5/13/2008 11:32 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Okay, log in reminder works now, thanks...
Question regarding the wiki - we can edit the "home" entry, but will you make it possible to post new entries and name them? Like we talked about - different "expert topics" that people can edit/add to, etc? Just wondering.

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  		   Posted 5/13/2008 11:59 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
CW
Yes, forum can have unlimited topics, just like this one. I only did the one to test. I'll give you admin on it so you can tinker more

Lyn
When you are on the Wiki page, click the Edit link, then click the plus sign next to Wiki Text Directions. New pages are added by using spcial code in the content of your post. I'll admit I', not fully up to speed on it....

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