[thesite] specific LOTTD

[.jeff]

djc,

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> From: Daniel J. Cody
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> [Bug] Job Category - Sidebar item of Recent Jobs is
>       not being displayed on both t.e.o. or w.e.o.,
>       regardless of User Priv ID?
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i think it's just commented out.  don't ask me why though.

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> [To Do] Re-validate HTML pages.  Check that DocType and
>         CharSet  have been specified and are correct.
>         Make modifications as required in order to
>         validate the pages.
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> aardvark - are we validating to HTML 4.0 or HTML 4.01
>            Specifications?
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i'm not aardvark, but i'm sure he'll say 4.01.

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> [New Feature] Complete list of highest rated articles
> linked from [More] under Highest Rated Articles (on
> the sidebar).
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depending on how we want this to work, it might be as easy as making the
ORDER BY clause of the homepage query dynamic.  set it up to use a url
variable and then have the [more] link pass rating DESC (url encoded) as the
sort value.  that would eliminate having to create an entire new display for
this info.

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> djc
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> [New Feature] Other Articles Written by this Author.
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> anyone: where should this go?(on the bottom probably,
>         but where?)
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i'm thinking below rating and above comments.  i'd thought at the very
bottom, but that would push it much too far down if there were very many
comments.  besides, comments are an extension of the article, not part of
it.  therefore, they shouldn't come before data pertinent to the article and
its author.

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> anyone: how does the last 5 articles sorted by max
>         rating sound?
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sounds good to me.  we might also wanna take number of comments into
consideration as well.  additionally, we should probably ignore articles in
certain categories like faq, jobs, suggestions, and news.

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> [New Feature] Tracking Article Views (i.e. This article
>               has been viewed X times.).
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will we be preloading this column in the database on a per article basis
from numbers in the web logs?  or, will we be starting every article at 0?

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> anyone: have suggestions on where this information
>         should appear within the article page view?
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below print article?

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> anyone: is this a good feature(old articles are at a
>         disadvantage), if so could we doa 'since
>         12-Oct-2001' or something?
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i'd rather there was a concerted effort to incorporate numbers from the web
logs.

'since 12-oct-2001' just takes up space and becomes more irrelevant each day
we get further away from that date.

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> rudy: whats your opinion where the DB should store this?
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i'm not rudy, but i think it should be a column in the content table.

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> [New Feature] Category descriptions on category front
>               pages.
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> jeff: is everything pretty much good to go on this?
>       (codewise that is) i'm assuming not, can you
>       just gimme a quickie overview of what your
>       thoughts are on how to do this?
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well, it's pretty simple really.  i believe there's a query that gets the
name of the category when you're viewing articles within a category.  just
add the new column (is it 'description', rudy?) to that query and output it
at the top of the content, just before outputting the list of articles.

i'll be around for part of the fun this weekend via irc.  i'll also try to
have a webcam set up so those that want to can watch.  would be cool if you
could do the same at codefest proper.

i really wish i could have been there.  however, with tara being dilated 1cm
for the past week, i don't think it'd be a good idea.

thanks,

.jeff

http://evolt.org/
jeff at members.evolt.org
http://members.evolt.org/jeff/