Posts by Dani

There was a severe problem with our email server that had been going on for about a week. Unfortunately, no one brought the issue to my attention, so I had just found out about it yesterday. Problem resolved now :)

Had a private message with deceptikon about this earlier today.

Certain older posts have invalid characters that didn't successfully make it through the migration off of vBulletin. The fully rendered version of the post was "faked" and there is no raw version that exists.

Essentially, it took hundreds upon hundreds of hours to rebuild the articles during the migration process. At the end of the day, we ended up with all but a couple hundred, which became an acceptable loss for the time.

It's actually not a bug at all, but instead a rather unintuitive aspect to the official Markdown standard.

According to standard Markdown (http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax): To produce a code block in Markdown, simply indent every line of the block by at least 4 spaces or 1 tab. To put a code block within a list item, the code block needs to be indented twice — 8 spaces or two tabs.

The reason that you end up with what you end up with, Aeonix, is because you ndented <?php by four spaces, therefore meeting the minimum number of spaces to stay within the list but not enough to start a code block. However, you start off the $images line with the required eight spaces.

Is it fixed? I know what caused it, but I don't have linux so I can't test.

Hi,

What happens is when you remove the tick saying it is a working draft, that gives us a flag that it is ready for publishing. It seems the article has been published and is now live at https://www.daniweb.com/software-development/csharp/tutorials/494566/playing-with-pixels

Yes, it is.

The purpose of the OP Kudos label is to single out those who are most active here on DaniWeb. There are so many newbies asking questions, not understanding how to politely ask a question, or using code tags, or understanding our unique rules, that we want a little label that basically says, 'This question is written by a true DaniWebber ... checking it out and clicking the link isn't going to be a waste of your time.'

Plus, it serves as the basis of our entire rewards point system. When DaniWebbers help other DaniWebbers, they make money :)

Sure, be my guest :) But the badge isn't just a regular image. It actually tracks how many times it's been viewed and clicked on and uses that information to link back to whatever website it's posted on.

Not sure what you mean ... do you mean how your post was created 6 hours ago, and I can tell by the blue timestamp within your post?

Change your email address in your member profile to removed the flag on your account. If you want to keep the same email account, switch it to something else, hit save, then switch it back, and hit save again.

Ah, so that explains it. You don't have the PM in your inbox because it is in the inbox of your other (new) account.

You just got that?? That's incredibly odd!! It's actually an automated PM that goes out to all new members.

OK, so I just found your PM in my inbox (I assume you're talking about MVC?). I haven't had a chance to reply to it yet.

Hmm ... so odd. Could you have deleted it accidentally?

Not much, anywhere from a few pennies up to $10 or so per article, depending upon its popularity and how well the community likes it. Basically a little pocket change to thank you for contributing to DaniWeb. However, we do end up giving away just as much (sometimes more!) than is earned from the advertisements on the page.

Please also note that the more views your articles get, and the more upvotes, and replies they receive, the more money you make through our rewards system!!

Exactly, yes.

Yes, you can use images within the articles. However, we do require that all editorial content you submit is unique to DaniWeb ... it gets us in trouble with Google if there's "duplicate content" issues, meaning the same exact article appears word-for-word on DaniWeb and on your own site as well. It makes the search engines think that DaniWeb plagiarizes.

To contribute tutorials, product reviews, news stories, interviews, etc.

You can't do anything with them, really :) Just a statistic to show how active you participate in the community.

Problem should be temporarily fixed.

Gah, I was testing it myself, and now I lost my own avatar and can't get it back!!

Making sure file attachments still work ...

OK I'll take care of it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. In the middle of something right now, but I'll try to get to it by the end of the day.

Oooh you mean an avatar?!

Can you please tell me exactly what steps you took that lead to this error? What photo, specifically? Where were you trying to post it?

I think the editorial view is absolutely lovely - you did a marvellous job on that Dani:

Flattery will get you nowhere :)

I particularly like the name/avatar above the piece. I really don't like it underneath

Same here. Unfortunately, an SEO firm that I've been working with insisted that it will make a huge difference, and I'm just desperate enough to give anything a shot.

Please confirm this bug has been fixed.

Regular members should have the ability to create editorial drafts. Just finishing something up and then I'm going to do a test from my test account.

Someone mentioned this to me awhile back and I wasn't able to duplicate it.

The 'CMS Type' is 'Tutorial Draft'. Not sure why it would think you're trying to move an article though? Hmm ... I'll take another looksie.

There's not a big enough difference there to draw attention to it.

Now I'm even more confused.

So what I can tell from RikTelner, is he liked the font best last week when everyone else hated it. And now he likes it worse when everyone else is saying that it's an improvement?

OK, should be fixed. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Ooops! Sorry about that. I'll fix it right away.

Ooooh I actually didn't see the follow up to this thread until now. Honestly, I just really needed a lappy. I did something I never in a billion years thought I would ever do. I walked into Microcenter, and fifteen minutes later, walked out with an MSI laptop. No custom build for Dani ... for once!

It's only going to share one image from the page. You can use the Open Graph syntax to tell Facebook which image you want that to be.

<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.example.com/image.gif" />

More information at:

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices

Ctrl and +/- work just as well as the scroll wheel. Also, take some pepto bismol.

Diafol, I used the Chrome Developer Tools to change the font to that of all the other posts, and it looked even more overwhelming IMHO.

I've removed, or so I think, the blurry look. Is this a bit better?

Oh, so you're redirected back? That's due to corrupt cookies. Clearing your browser cookies should fix the issue.

I see what you're saying about there being a lot of white space between the title and the OP. My challenge is that I need to find a way to still keep the text ad above-the-fold, and also have the page navigation be above the first post. The big buttons are just there because there was a lot of empty white space between the ad and the pagination, and so it was a good spot to stick them. Or so I thought.

What error message did you get?

The problem is that it's the same font as in that link ... Segoe UI. It's a Microsoft font that was specifically designed for the Windows 7/8 UI, and it looks great on Windows 7 and 8, but I guess other platforms don't play nice with it??

The social media buttons look nicer, but I agree that they're too big - for me - who doesn't give a fig about them. I'm hoping that there will be an option to hide them in the profile page sometime.

They are actually smaller than the old ones. The old ones were 90px high. These are only 60px high. Same width. They just look bigger because each button is just one big image as opposed to having the social media logo along with a counter.

Where these win is that, by no longer using the official widgets for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn, we save a TON in page loading and resources without all of that javascript and all the tracking pixels and data mining involved. In all honesty, the number of external resources needed to generate an entire page was cut in half.

Oh, and throughout the site, yellow buttons are used to indicate primary calls to action, and blue buttons are used to indicate secondary buttons / navigation / management / etc.

The sidebar buttons are yellow because they are specific to the article, and it's a primary call to action to share the article you're reading.

Thbe bottom buttons are blue because they are just a part of the shared footer, and are used to share the DaniWeb.com domain as a whole.

The blurry look is the problem. Why isn't it the same font as the replies?

I didn't like the way it looked in the same font as the replies. I don't think that font tends to look good at larger sizes. So I instead opted for the font that we use for headings and subheadings, which I think looks better at larger sizes. Plus, the fact that it's our 'headings' font, I thought it would subliminally be considered 'important'.

That being said, I kept the social media icons in the same order the old ones were, based on popularity / usage. It's unfortunate that it says fugin. Or, perhaps, just a happy coincidence. :-P

And for everyone who absolutely hates the larger font ....... do you have any better solutions to achieve my goal?? Suggestions welcome. I'm open ...

OK, I'll bite. I don't want everyone mad at me. So my thought process is that someone comes into a thread from a Google search, and the very first thought that runs through their mind is, "What kind of page is this? Is there a question here? Is the question being asked the same as the problem I'm trying to solve?"

My answer was to run a test enlarging the OP post to make it the very first thing shouting at the user when they load the page. The result: after the first 12+ hours, we have so far seen the lowest bounce rate in over a year.

However, I'm fully willing to admit it might be a fluke, or just a random happenstance. I'm giving it some more time for the stats to even out.

Everyone hates it that much, eh?? Geez, I don't think it's bad at all. That being said, however, I'm going with what Rev Jim and Prit have to say ... that it's always subjective. The only thing that never lies are actual statistics. I really want to continue my test for the next 24-48 hours and see if it makes a major impact to bounce rate.

I'm running a test to see if a larger OP font size has an affect on bounce rate and some other statistics.