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> Whenever I build a website I'm always forced to use some php code or javascript to find out the browser the user is using so the correct css is loaded.

In our situation, this actually causes much more overhead than its worth. Additionally, it is not foolproof since new browsers are coming out every day (Android and other mobile devices, PS3 and other gaming consules, etc) and it's impossible to determine which browsers support which CSS declarations.

I agree with you with regards to CSS errors, but warnings are a different story. We're about 60% FF :) Imagine that, more FF users than IE users!!

Also, just to get an idea of whether we really are outside the loop, and that all "professional" sites do what you're suggesting, I decided to run CSS validation across some other large sites:

www.digg.com => Fails
www.microsoft.com => Fails
www.facebook.com => Fails
www.google.com => Fails
www.apple.com => Fails

It seems that the standardized way of doing it really is to do what we do, which is to include CSS declarations for all browsers within one CSS file and let the browser figure out which ones to use.

> Surely, this isn't the way it's supposed to work? Also, how intuitive is a blank search to enable you to go to 'advanced search'/'forum search'? Would not a little 'Advanced Search' link below the search input box be useful?

Yes, but there are only soooooo many tweaks and fixes that I can do at a time! Still working ......

Cheers,

Dani

Hey there,

There is very limited seating available at the Dinner with Dani event compared to the number of applications we've received. We are accepting people based on the criteria that you filled out in the survey.

If you haven't received a dinner ticket, you are more than welcome and encouraged to come to the after party from 10 pm to 2 am, where there will be a free open bar the first hour followed by raffles, giveaways and fun!

you can also send complaints to me.

I run this place.

Then why is it all purple?

*super sigh*

It was definitely the nag window that accounted for the significant drop off in new posts and threads. Yesterday we just had our sixth highest postcount day EVER!!! And it was only behind the fifth highest day by two posts!

I am talking to colweb and jephthah.

Fixed.

> Well, currently I am happy with the go to newest post button but I think it should go to the left of the title
I feel like it's more appropriate to sit next to the time of the last post in the thread, since it is an indication that new posts have been made since your last time there.

The [code] button spelled out, watermark in the editor window, and Code Explanation page are all coming back. The "New" button in thread listings is also coming back. So is solved threads and reputation within posts.

Got it all working. :)

Don't worry. Already had a chat with the designer about this one early this morning. Working on a solution.

Hey guys ...

I took a handful of screenshots off of our development server that compare our old and new design side by side. All of the following screenshots were taken at 1280x1024 resolution. Currently, over 80% of DaniWeb visitors use a screen resolution at or larger than 1280x1024.

Because the old design is only live on the test server, some of the button images in the old design are wrong (i.e. default vBulletin blue instead of our old big yellow buttons). Just ignore that :) NOTHING else changed. All screenshots are 1280x1024 resolution.

Comparison 1 = Here is a screenshot comparison of when you first load a forum thread page. You can see that the actual post content is available MUCH sooner in the new version. In fact, in the old version, none of the actual post is available without having to scroll! In the new version, nearly the entire post is visible.

Comparison 2 = Here is a screenshot comparison of the first post in the thread. The new design occupies just as much space as the old design, but has the added benefit of also displaying Similar Threads, which are very useful to people investigating a tech support issue or trying to find out as much information as possible about something, etc. In the old design, Similar Threads were way down at the very bottom of the page.

Comparison …

The one thing this entire thread has taught me ...

** I miss Dave Sinkula **

Hi everyone,

I just got home from a *VERY* long day in the office and am going to take some time to respond to everyone's feedback from during the day. First of all, I have been reading all of the feedback and keeping up with it. Unfortunately, some of the major bug squashing required my immediate attention during the day and so I didn't have time to respond. I'm going to attempt to do that now :)

seriously. it could have been made more difficult to read, but you'd really have had to work at it. The font was made a tad darker and still on a white background. Font size remained the same if I remember correctly but changed from Verdana to Arial, which are both very web safe fonts.

Also: I have a 'delete' button next to my post, which I normally don't have in this forum. (I only mod soft-dev). Is this new or a bug?Button title needs to be changed :)

I very much like the new static bottom-toolbar. I was just about to start complaining about the (again) disappearance of MFF Thanks!

I'm sorry to be blunt, but the monochromatic color scheme, the hard contrast, the incredible overuse of whitespace.... it's horrible. While it may be an illusion that posts appear to have more white space around them now, when placed side by side with the old design, you can fit nearly two of the new posts into the …

I think we might just be going live tomorrow with the launch of our new design!!

:( Dave will definitely be very missed. I don't think that DaniWeb will be the same without him.

Now that's just wishful thinking ;)

Using ad block software isn't going to be as effective as telling the JavaScript not to load at all. I see you're a sponsor, so try changing your profile settings if you haven't already.

Not a lot of ajax requests on load.

You have to upload the image as an attached file. Then, you can use the [attach] bbcode to show them inline within posts.

I'm not sure what PTC means either.

> I dont know why people voted me down in this thread.
Because you hijacked the thread to ask your own question.

I have to get this! I collect Barbie dolls :)

Consider Google Voice so you won't have to give out your real phone number.

There's no team -- I do all of the development work myself.

A lot of images are loaded from the CSS so a custom CSS would actually do the trick.

In the future, we do have plans to eventually have a mobile version of the site. However, it's not a priority right now.

Off-page factors play a large role in how your site gets ranked. However, it's important to have a constant stream of new sites always linking to you. The only way to achieve this is to constantly have fresh, awesome content on your site that people are naturally going to want to link to each time they stumble across it. Long story short = Focus on building good content and the links will come by themselves.

It's been there a year :) But thanks!! :)

No, seriously ... the contents have been there a year but I just never had the headings so large to spell out exactly what it was you were looking at. So people thought it was just the latest topics when it really was super customized just for you all along.

I'm sure it's possible. If you have a **lot** of followers, advertisers would be willing to pay to have you tweet about them, because it would seem to be more of a testimonial from a "trusted" source.

1. Why no follow links? do we get any benefit on our site if we submit to these types of directories?

Nofollow is Google / Yahoo's attempt at stopping the buying/selling link business by encouraging publishers to use nofollow on all links that they sell and then convincing the industry that nofollowed links don't carry any SEO weight.

The "legitimate" reason that they exist is because a link on a page is considered a "vote" for the page being linked to, and the search engines wanted to give publishers a tool to help the bots distinguish between publisher-contributed links and user-contributed links (blog comments, etc). They also recommend to the industry that all links not endorsed by the publisher should be nofolloweed by the publisher ... which, in turn, includes comments, advertisement links, etc.

We do know this is the authentic reason the search engines had for creating the nofollow attribute, and how they intend it to be used. However, "nofollow" is just a suggestion and not a rule. In other words, when we as publishers using it, we are "suggesting" to Googlebot that we didn't post the link on our website ourselves, but we aren't giving Googlebot a strict rule to not follow it. In other words, it's not like a robots.txt file where we can specify pages on our site not to crawl which all search engine spiders are supposed to always obey.

We also don't know exactly how much of a role nofollow …

Mmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

The purpose of the voting system is so that anyone can give one point up or one point down ... irrelevant of how many posts they have, how much reputation they have, how long they've been a member on DaniWeb, etc. The purpose of it is so that the person giving the vote doesn't have to be afraid to go one way or the other for any reason, and that's what sets it apart from the reputation system.

Oh, nevermind ... I know what it is :) I'll fix it in the morning.

Please let me know what specifically you do that makes it not work.

No worries ... we always love feedback so anytime you have anything to say, please be my guest ... and know that you're being heard. :)

Hi ... sorry, I don't really read PMs. Email is the best way to get in touch with me :)

Our donation system simply lends itself the best to a subscription-based service. Aside from all of the benefits such as access to Area 51, a bold username, custom user title, larger avatar, etc that you get for the duration that your member subscription is active, you also receive advertisement-free browsing on DaniWeb. For the most part, the cost of the monthly subscription balances out with the missed revenue from not showing you advertisements over the course of the month. Having it be a PayPal-based subscription also makes it really easy to manage and keep track of, since the forum system automatically integrates with the PayPal API to auto-promote you and auto-demote your DaniWeb membership if your subscription doesn't get renewed.

If you just want to say thanks, you can PayPal me at cscgal@daniweb.com or mail a check to 1140 RXR Plaza, Uniondale NY 11556.

Here on DaniWeb we use JQuery for all of our tooltips.

That would also happen if you are using browser zoom.

Bookmark the URL as it appears in your browser's status bar before you click on it.

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/search.php?subscribed=getdaily

Every point that you've made has been taken into consideration recently, and changes have recently been implemented to combat the issues.

> And then there's the issue of High rep users being scared to vote because they have so much influence...
The algorithm which affects how much rep power people have was changed so that this is no longer a problem. Even regular members can now give positive or negative rep without severely affecting someone else's rep nearly as much as they used to.

> If you've been part of the site longer, you're opinion matters more than everybody else's? Why?
Because the system is called "reputation" ... And just like reputation in a real world community, your reputation is a reflection of what the most influential people in the community think of you.

But that's why we have other statistics in place as well. Such as the new voting system where everyone's vote counts equally as one point either up or down. And the solved thread statistic.

Of course, no online system like this is going to be completely impartial, and they all will have their flaws. But the idea is that by taking all of these different statistics into consideration, someone can make an educated overall judgement about the overall quality (or lack thereof) of the member.

Hi there and welcome to DaniWeb!

Your username has been changed.

We used to have one, but it wasn't very active at all, and eventually all of the Adobe / Macromedia threads got rolled up into the Graphics and Multimedia forum within Web Design.

I'm so sorry. Server issues that are currently being looked into. I couldn't access the site at all until just now.

I will look into it, I promise. Just a tad busy right at this moment. We had a lot of server issues today so a lot of things are out of whack so I'm trying to fix them one at a time.

Voting posts up or down. They are the number of votes the first post in the thread received.

We've been having database issues and this is a symptom of the slave database being unavailable.

Site has been down. Sorry :(

lol

Well it always shows the full name for news stories. And I recently changed it to do it for tutorials and product reviews as well. Code snippets weren't supposed to be included in the list.

It's actually not supposed to :)