New TLS Front Page

[Shademp]

@I Am Not Me

Thank you for pointing this out. I had in fact created and published an Affiliations page, but never added a link to it for the menu. I have now placed it under Community. =)

Edit: The Final Fantasy Radio website has been taken down, so I removed it from the Affiliations list. Same with "FFOnline.Net" which was apparently owned by FF Radio. =/

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

LHYeung/Xcomp's site should be one of the affiliates. His translations have been the basis for several of Pixel's audiobooks. Also, his page for Maiden Who Travels the Planet links to our audiobook of it, and I'm going to ask if he'll add links to the other audiobooks on their respective pages as well.

Plus, he's a cool dude who has done a lot for the community.

These days he prefers to be credited as LHYeung, by the way, but I always include both names since he's better known as Xcomp.

 

[Pixel]

We should run a feature on him sometime. Maybe an interview type thing.

Could even do this with other people in the fandom, like the guy who made dead fantasy.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

That is an excellent idea.

 

[Shademp]

Thanks Tres. Xcomp's site has now been added to the list of affiliates.

Could even do this with other people in the fandom, like the guy who made dead fantasy.

That would be epic. I'd also like to see a feature for Rob64Strife, one of the greatest FFVII collectors in the world. I am yet to see an FFVII collection more impressive than his.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Great work.

I also just happened to be writing an e-mail to Xcomp right this moment, so I'll go ahead and ask him about the new audibook links (would you want to do custom buttons for that, Pixel?) and if he would be interested in an interview/feature. No idea what we would ask him about, but I guess we could take suggestsions from the community?

 

[Shademp]

No idea what we would ask him about, but I guess we could take suggestsions from the community?

If so, then an "Active Projects" thread should be created by the person who is willing to make the interview feature, so that members can then post there. So all we really need then is somebody to lead this feature. Pixel, you up for it?

(Alternatively, make a thread in a non-public section if we don't want Xcomp spotting the interview we have in mind for him.)

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Would we want to do an audio interview/feature or text-based (via e-mail or whatever)? If the former, Pixel would definitely be the best guy for it. But in case he has enough on his plate already, I could try to head it up.

Though I probably shouldn't be taking on anything else either.

In any case, let's see what Xcomp says before we plan too much. I'm pretty confident that he'll be interested, though.

 

[Pixel]

I wouldnt mind being involved in an audio interview, but i woulnt be able to host it, ya know. Im not very good at conversation... or talking

would you want to do custom buttons for that, Pixel?

just a link would be fine. Im not that bothered

 

[Flintlock]

This is what the front page menu looks like on Opera:

Spoiler: Wide image

That's not right, is it?

There are a couple of other things I want to mention:

1. As I said in the social networking thread, could someone put the page I made into one of the menus, probably Community?

2. We still don't have social sharing buttons! If we can't find a good enough plugin to put on every page, could we at least put some "like" buttons on the front page?

3. Did we decide that it's alright to upload duplicate images to make sure there's always a 2:1 for the front page? My latest roundup has a slightly taller image, which makes it look out of place on the front page, but cropping it would have removed some important parts of the image from the article no matter what.

4. We're still using the old materia orb, which has a thin black border that makes it look out of place in the "happening now" bar, even though I made a new one quite some time ago that doesn't have the black part. It should be as simple as overwriting it with FTP, but I don't have FTP access any more

5. Happy holidays!

 

[Fangu]

This is what the front page menu looks like on Opera:

Spoiler: Wide image

That's not right, is it?

What do you mean? It's always looked like that to me, bc I'm using Opera.

The menu is the one thing that is not consistent on the different browsers. Yop made it, and afaik decided that standardizing it is not gonna be a priority.

1. As I said in the social networking thread, could someone put the page I made into one of the menus, probably Community?

I see this as Shademp's job as he is content manager. I can do it, but I think it's best if he does it.

2. We still don't have social sharing buttons! If we can't find a good enough plugin to put on every page, could we at least put some "like" buttons on the front page?

IMO there should be on on every post and page, and not on the FP. I think the plugin I found is fine, as we only need 3 or 4 of those symbols.

Someone please fight Yop over this bc I cba
(To fight him, that is, but I will install the plugin and test it on the old server, then the new server, when it's clear.)

3. Did we decide that it's alright to upload duplicate images to make sure there's always a 2:1 for the front page? My latest roundup has a slightly taller image, which makes it look out of place on the front page, but cropping it would have removed some important parts of the image from the article no matter what.

You can only have 1 featured image at the time. If you decide to not make it 2:1 for when the article is the top story, that's fine, but do crop it once it hits the 2, 3 and 4, or it will look out of place as it looks now. I don't think there is such a thing that "important parts" in an image. The full pic can be seen when you click the article anyway.

4. We're still using the old materia orb, which has a thin black border that makes it look out of place in the "happening now" bar, even though I made a new one quite some time ago that doesn't have the black part. It should be as simple as overwriting it with FTP, but I don't have FTP access any more

The safest thing is to replace the image source, and not overwrite the image itself. I'll look into it later.

5. Happy holidays!

Do feel free to put something else in there if you want to. You're an Editor, so you can

The reason I changed it is because I announced Cam's BC stream last night, so it felt out of place to put the old "Nov 4th" message in there.

 

[Shademp]

1. As I said in the social networking thread, could someone put the page I made into one of the menus, probably Community?

Done. I have a few anxieties though.

I called it "Social Networking", instead of "Social Networks" because I didn't want another link under Community that ended with an 's'.

Should I relabel "Forums" to "Forum"? Should I call it "Networks" instead of "Networking"? I can't decide.

At first I placed Social Networks above Affiliations, because reading up-down I wanted the viewer to see Flintlock's page before the Affiliations one. It looked aesthetically more pleasing to place it at the bottom, creating a "three-level-stair-effect" with Chat, Affiliations and Social Networking. Input is much appreciated.

 

[Flintlock]

What do you mean? It's always looked like that to me, bc I'm using Opera.

The menu is the one thing that is not consistent on the different browsers. Yop made it, and afaik decided that standardizing it is not gonna be a priority.

This is what it looks like in Chrome, for comparison:

Spoiler: Another wide image

You can only have 1 featured image at the time. If you decide to not make it 2:1 for when the article is the top story, that's fine, but do crop it once it hits the 2, 3 and 4, or it will look out of place as it looks now. I don't think there is such a thing that "important parts" in an image. The full pic can be seen when you click the article anyway.

I didn't word my question very well. If I crop the image to 2:1, won't it be cropped on both the front page and the article? I thought not, which is why I have been uploading some duplicate images.

Do feel free to put something else in there if you want to. You're an Editor, so you can

I didn't know that! How do I edit it?

The real reason I said happy holidays there is because I felt bad for asking people to do work when they should be relaxing and enjoying some time off

I called it "Social Networking", instead of "Social Networks" because I didn't want another link under Community that ended with an 's'.

Should I relabel "Forums" to "Forum"? Should I call it "Networks" instead of "Networking"? I can't decide.

Shademp, you're silly Personally, I have always preferred Forum to Forums, but here we are officially "The Lifestream Forums" (look at the first link underneath the main banner), so maybe the menu link should stay as Forums as well. I think Social Networking is a bit wordy, but the important thing is that it's there. Affiliations could become Affiliates, though that ends in an S as well...

 

[Fangu]

This is what it looks like in Chrome, for comparison:

Spoiler: Another wide image

tbh I think the Opera one is the correct one, as it has the graded shading?

I didn't word my question very well. If I crop the image to 2:1, won't it be cropped on both the front page and the article? I thought not, which is why I have been uploading some duplicate images.

Oh yes. Yeah if you're gonna use a picture in the article for a featured image, you should upload it twice, correct. Because any cropping you do to the featured image will also happen to the one in the article.

I didn't know that! How do I edit it?

Appearance > Widgets > Featured
Can you see it?

 

[Flintlock]

tbh I think the Opera one is the correct one, as it has the graded shading?

There is a bit of a gradient in the Chrome version as well. It's a lot closer to my draft, so I assumed it was correct.

Appearance > Widgets > Featured
Can you see it?

I don't even see "Appearance" at the moment.

 

[Pixel]

The green gradient in opera seems to be the end pieces without the darker gradient breaking it up

 

[Fangu]

I don't even see "Appearance" at the moment.

Oh rite, I only implemented it on fhtagn because I was waiting for some sort of approval from Higher Beings. I was ranting about it earlier in this thread. Well fuck approval, I'm adding the two lines of code tonight.

Edit: Done already, try now? (Flint, Lex, TresDias and Ryu should now be able to edit the bar. Note that you now have access to some other stuff related to menus, widgets, headers, theme etc. There is no way to just set this right to just the Widgets, so please use some caution, especially when it comes to the Editor. As in, please don't use it, if we're to make changes to the design it should be tested first. Regarding the menus, Shademp is in charge of this.)

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Yeah, I don't know what that shit is. I won't touch it.

 

[Cthulhu]

The gradient on Opera is most likely Opera not supporting images for borders, it's kind of a new CSS 3 feature which I guess Opera hasn't implemented yet. Opera accounts for approx. 2.70% of visits to the front page over the last year, and fixxing it would probably involve replacing the entire background to something with the borders in the image itself, or something like that. cba?

As for the social media icons, have an angry Norwegian chick or Swedish dude yell at me in the weekend, that usually helps .