Site Design
- Thread starter Pixel
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Flintlock
Pro Adventurer
Yeah, probably. Sorry about that. On the plus side, featured images and the thumbnails created from them are in a 16:9 ratio all across the site, so you'll be sure that whatever images you come up with in will be shown in their entirety everywhere, without cropping or borders.
Cthulhu
Administrator
- AKA
- Yop
I know TLS has some sexual deviancy and shit going on with its members, but this?
Lex
Administrator
It's the thread itself Claymore, it's gone too long. Unless it's a general chat thread, people start to notice that only a few people regularly respond in certain threads and stop checking them. The best way to get this small survey more attention would be to create a new thread for it with an eye-catching headline. I guarantee people have had this sitting in "new posts" for months without even looking at it XD. It's just how foruming tends to go 
Ghost X
Moderator
Android OS / Samsung Galaxy A3.
540x960 if google is correct :p
Whatever the default browser is. It just says "internet" :p.
Image seems broken in the FFVII compendium page, Highlights page, and About page.
I'm not fussed. Does the job
. Besides, gave my opinion on this a lot in the early stages.
Pixel
The Pixie King
Here's the banner without the 3 annoying dots
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw4Tk7aQlnO5RXZseXlTcGFmUDQ/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw4Tk7aQlnO5RXZseXlTcGFmUDQ/view?usp=sharing
Flintlock
Pro Adventurer
I haven't switched banners yet but that's easy enough to do.
Also, I cleaned up the first nine or ten articles on the test site, but there's not much point doing more, because that's not the article database we're going to use when we go live with the new theme. Lex and I just had a chat about the best way of proceeding and I think it would be this: make a copy of the current article database from the live site, move it to the test site (so we have all the new articles from the past year on it), edit / touch up articles there, then move the database back.
I'm pretty sure that's possible but not 100% sure. If it is, it's a bit of a technical process which I could do by Googling the instructions, but I'd rather leave it in more capable hands so I don't mess anything up. Lex and I have set a date of the 27th to mass-tidy articles together, so if it could happen before then, that'd be much appreciated. Yop?
Also, I cleaned up the first nine or ten articles on the test site, but there's not much point doing more, because that's not the article database we're going to use when we go live with the new theme. Lex and I just had a chat about the best way of proceeding and I think it would be this: make a copy of the current article database from the live site, move it to the test site (so we have all the new articles from the past year on it), edit / touch up articles there, then move the database back.
I'm pretty sure that's possible but not 100% sure. If it is, it's a bit of a technical process which I could do by Googling the instructions, but I'd rather leave it in more capable hands so I don't mess anything up. Lex and I have set a date of the 27th to mass-tidy articles together, so if it could happen before then, that'd be much appreciated. Yop?
Cthulhu
Administrator
- AKA
- Yop
I'd propose just copy / pasting the HTML versions of the fixed articles back to the main site; I don't like doing partial database migrations, it gets rather complicated if you don't know what data exactly to remove / copy.
copy / pasting is easier.
I could do a re-export / import of the database, but, how much of the test site's layout is just file-based and how much is database settings and entries?
copy / pasting is easier.
I could do a re-export / import of the database, but, how much of the test site's layout is just file-based and how much is database settings and entries?
Flintlock
Pro Adventurer
In theory the theme is completely separate from the database.
Copying and pasting is so fiddly: we'd have to do it for titles, article content, excerpts, and SEO (up to three fields), so four to seven times for each article. Then we'd have to manually change the categories and tags which can't just be copied and pasted.
I guess copying the test site database back over to the main site could cause problems if there are any new articles or even new comments, so you might be right about it getting complicated. My initial thought was just to update the articles on the live site before switching over to the new theme – since the idea is to make the articles consistent and independent from the theme, it shouldn't really matter that we'll be previewing them on the old theme – but Lex didn't seem to like the idea. I guess it can be difficult to imagine how things will look.
We could try something like this, I guess. If it works it might actually be the optimal solution.
Copying and pasting is so fiddly: we'd have to do it for titles, article content, excerpts, and SEO (up to three fields), so four to seven times for each article. Then we'd have to manually change the categories and tags which can't just be copied and pasted.
I guess copying the test site database back over to the main site could cause problems if there are any new articles or even new comments, so you might be right about it getting complicated. My initial thought was just to update the articles on the live site before switching over to the new theme – since the idea is to make the articles consistent and independent from the theme, it shouldn't really matter that we'll be previewing them on the old theme – but Lex didn't seem to like the idea. I guess it can be difficult to imagine how things will look.
We could try something like this, I guess. If it works it might actually be the optimal solution.