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Realise that. Just prime location for little info.

Editorial content (interviews, etc.) are often paid for, either by directly paying staff writers a retainer, or through the rewards system. Therefore, from my point of view, nothing screams for "prime location" more than the content that I pay for out of my own pocket.

The tab only shows up if there actually are interviews in the section.

Neither of those are SaaS products though, right?

I didn't think of that. You're right, that would work too. :)

Shrink down the width of your browser window.

Instead of setting search.php as your source, you will need to set your source as a function with an ajax call to search.php.

Not necessarily true. We use jQuery UI for our search autocomplete here on DaniWeb, and do it just as he is. jQuery UI passes in the term parameter in a POST request to Search.php, which just needs to return a JSON array of results making the assumption that $_POST['term'] exists.

Now that the design is rolled out, the code freeze has come to an end. I'm now once again accepting feature requests, etc.

I know it's been a long time coming, but the inconsistencies have been fixed with our new rollout.

Does anyone know how to effectively do pivot tables in Google Docs? Do they work the same was as in Excel?

Pass a third parameter into the mail() function with a list of headers, specifically, specifying the From email address that you'd like to use.

http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_mail_mail.asp

Use mod_rewrite in .htaccess to map whatever you want the URI to look like with the actual of the php and html files.

So, for example,

RewriteRule ^pretty/path/location$ https://www.example.com/real-location.php [L]

OK, so I'm not quite sure which you're referring to, but you have two options:

Click the bookmark icon to the left of a post to bookmark that individual post.
Click the pushpin icon to the left of the first post in a thread to pin the entire thread to your bulletin board for watching :)

Either way, you can get to your list of bookmarked posts or watched articles from the new Finder menu.

Oh, so instead now you click the bookmark icon at the top left of the post.

You can retrieve all your bookmarks from the top Finder menu --> Posts I've Bookmarked.

Thanks! :)

Bookmarks?

Did you have a question, or just wanted to see who else out there is a fan? Personally, I'm a huge fan. I wouldn't consider myself a genius at networking (I can do simple things, like set up a Windows domain, VPN, etc.), and to be honest, the name Cisco scared me a bit, but setting them up was incredibly easy and straightforward.

But, as a total replacement to the forum system it is hard to navigate and hard to find related topics when you do not know what might be related. or what might exist already.

Our site search dropdown offers an autocomplete feature to help you find tags. When you are in a forum/forum thread, it presents a list of the most popular related tags. When you're on the homepage/elsewhere, it presents a list of the most popular tags across the site as a whole. As you type, the list filters itself, but it always stays aware of what section you're in. So, for example, typing the letter 'c' while in the software development section will present you with C++ and C#, but typing the letter 'c' while in the web development section will present you with CSS.

All that was easily available on the old C++ forum. Now, the tutorials, recommended books, etc discussion topics are no longer part of the C++ tag

Those are the sticky threads, which are currently being retooled to be presented in a different way. That's not related to the tagging system. It's just something else we're in the midst of upgrading on the site right now for reasons of a lot of them being very outdated and no longer entirely relevant. If, and when, they're brought back, they'd be attached to the C++ tag the same way they were to the C++ forum.

Maybe the sticky posts have, or …

Yeah, I had no way of automating it easily. Endorsements were linked to old forum ids that no longer existed, and I didn't have the mapping of the old forumids to the new rolled up ones anywhere in the database. So I had to go through each removed/modified forum, figure out where its articles have been moved to, and update the endorsements table to change the forumid for all relevant records. One. forum. at. a. time. Which is a pain when you factor in that I actually had to use archive.org for each forum to match up now-deleted ID #s with what they were and where they have moved to.

I've gone ahead and manually recalculated everyone's endorsements, one forum at a time. It took foreveerrrrrrr, ugh, but it's finally done.

Either way, everyone has lost endorsements in the process, now that they are rolled up into parent forums. For example, if a single member endorsed you for Web Development and again for PHP (2 endorsements), they both got rolled up into Web Development as a single endorsement.

I thought about switching it to the tag system where you could still be endorsed for the php tag, for example, but ultimately decided against it. With an infinite number of tags, it would easily get out of hand and not useful to seeing at a glance what people are into.

(I see a suggestion menu pops up so that will work nicely).

And the suggestions, when creating a new thread, just as in the top search bar, are dependant on the forum category you're currently in, to help things along.

Without knowing what category someone is asking a question in, how can I know if i can help someone?

Here's a link to all Unanswered C# Articles: https://www.daniweb.com/tags/c%23/unanswered

May I ask why this change was made?

Because there are an unlimited number of programming languages out there, and technologies come and go, and I was tired of being restricted by the confines of a finite number of programming languages that were determined to be the most popuar 15 years ago. By using the tagging system, instead, we are less restricted to be forced to talk about only certain programming languages or technologies, and we can do better moving forward with being infinitely adaptable and keeping up with modern trends.

I'll investigate the endorsements bug shortly.

It's not.

Yes, because endorsements are tied to forums, and those forums no longer exist or have been rolled up into higher level categories.

The missing categories that is temporary right?

No.

Put the username at the end of the post, and I lose. Put the username at the top of the post, and I lose. Seems I can never win here!

We now use the tagging system instead of forums. There is no more C# forum. You can find all C# related articles at: https://www.daniweb.com/tags/c%23

You can arrive there by typing C# into the search bar, or clicking the C# tag in any article already tagged with C#.

The reason for this move is because DaniWeb effectively covers an infinite number of topics and languages, and the forum system was too restricting ... we were bound to focusing entirely around popular languages from ten years ago even though so much has changed since then.

Upon clicking the link to load the page, it took a few seconds for the server to return a response. That can't be good for user experience. I imagine most people won't wait, nor will Google.

Bug fixed.

Yes, everything is rolled up into top-level categories now.

Yes, that's definitely a bootstrap design.

Keep in mind that, whole getelementbyid is pure JavaScript, the attribute selector is from the jQuery library.

It looks like a CSS issue. Have you tried clearing your cache? Does it work fine in other browsers?

You can use the unlink function, passing in the local path to the file. Your web server user just needs to have correct permissions to the file directory.

I'm a bit confused. Can you provide a screenshot?

Am I missing something? Yesterday, the tags were present if you opened up the subfora list with the blue button on top-right. Now, only the main titles (no tags) are present.

Yes, it was just a temporary solution, and I didn't like the way it looked. I thought it drowned out the forum categories.

Where exactly can we chose a tag to visit?

You can search for tags with the site search. There is an autocomplete that is based on the section of the site you're currently on, in an attempt to provide you with recommendations.

Maybe a smaller remar (which I noticed by replying here), why is it not possible anymore to go to the last page (or even to see there are several pages) of replies in a thread on the top of the page?

Honestly, the answer to your question is because I didn't see a need anymore. We have pagination at the top and bottom of page 2+ so that you can quickly see you're not on the first page, and quickly jump to the first page to begin reading from the beginning. But it didn't occur to me you would not want to be on the first page.

Can you give me a use case for this? When I'm browsing a list of articles, I can click the article title to go to the first page, or the timestamp of the last post to go to the last page.

Just one tag at a time right now.

OK so the top search menu is now complete. Not only does it function as always (type a search query and be presented with google-powered results) but you can also search for tags. There's an autocomplete feature that is based on the forum that you are currently in.

I still think there is way too much space devoted to Related Articles. I don't see why this has to take up 2/5 of the screen. And the social media icons are way oversized.

Because, for someone who sells advertising views to an audience that 99% of the time comes from a Google search and then leaves without exploring, getting that one extra click out of a user can double my income.

Sorry for my belated response. I wouldn't know what's wrong with it unless you show some code to investigate.

You have to time travel to 1998.

I fixed the bug.

As I understand it, I can add a tag when I create a thread but the creation of a tag is not mandatory.

It became mandatory as soon as we switched over to a tagging-based system.

And I have asked this before, but since Search does not allow me to do a tag-based search

As of now, search does allow you to do a tag-based search.

All in all I think that either the implementation or the explanation of the tagging system has been poorly handled.

I think it was a case of exploring unknown territory, and deciding to put it out there and let everyone's reactions guide what needs improvement and what works and what doesn't. These types of things are never going to come out of the gates polished because I rely on real world site usage to gauge what works and what doesn't and what people like and what they don't.

I posted a thread 45 minutes ago with C# tag, but I still cannot find it under C# tag.

You're right, I see. Well, this isn't good. I will investigate.

It never went away. It's just that I wanted to clean up the interface a bit so you now have to hit the little blue button in the footer to unhide the form. The one that looks like a tag with a plus sign next to it.

To be perfectly honest, it was on my short term agenda to do forum-tag intersect (i.e. I only want to see threads tagged 'bug' that are within the DaniWeb feedback forum). Tag intersect was planned for a little later down the road, but I can push it up if it's something everyone really wants.

If it works well (searching by tag)

You can now search by tag in the top navigation menu.

Intersections are somewhere in the plan.

I had a teacher who used to tell his students in the begining of each semester : " if it is not broken do not f.... with it " . there was nothing wrong with the old style

DaniWeb receives about one thirtieth of the traffic we received three years ago and only getting worse. A lot of our forum categories were very outdated. I was constantly being told that the design was very old school. Sometimes you just gotta keep up with the times or you'll be left in the dust.

You can post Python questions in the Software Development forum with the 'python' tag. This way, they can be found by people just searching by that tag.

There will be shortly.

Some members gave me the idea to switch to a tagging-based system, and so we did :-P

You can't find the Python forum because it doesn't exist anymore.

But here are all articles tagged with Python:

https://www.daniweb.com/tags/python

Raise of hands, who here likes the tagging system?

I'm probably a glutton for punishment, but are threads just a bit easier to follow now?