Forum Activity for @strumelia

Changing Header Banner

Installation and Configuration

voxster, here is an example of an inexpensive rotating (3rd party code) slideshow i use on my site's main page, to rotate ads that members purchase from me, or my own ads, notices, or images:
http://fotmd.com/
I chose to have it positioned spanning the middle of my home page as a side-by-side pair of independent slideshows, but you could put one right UNDER your top banner, or at bottom or side of page, in several different locations, etc.

Mutual Follow "Friends" button - plus Message

Design and Skin Customization

Yes it's definitely part of the confusion, for my members. Took me a little while to figure it out and get used to it myself, but my members tend to be older and not so quick in having to click to various places to get the 'whole picture' (the follow going two different ways).

Mutual Follow "Friends" button - plus Message

Design and Skin Customization

The problem is that it requires a member to click on two different places to see if A) they are following someone, and then B) if that person is also following them back. Many of my members can't keep this all straight.
What I'd love to see is if i (as a regular member) go to another member's profile page and see a little green dot light or something underneath their profile picture with the word "friend" next to it -that indicates to me once we are BOTH following each other and can send private messages. Something like one sees with those little 'online now' green light dots...but telling me we are now co-followers...i.e. 'friends'.
Having an indicator on another person's profile page tell me (as the viewer) simply that I'm following someone (a one way follow) would actually make it MORE confusing on my site- my members would then think the follow was going both ways already...and they'd start asking me why they can't PM that person.
I think that in addition to this clicking around to get 'following' statuses from separate places, there just needs to be a visual indicator icon that automatically shows when you are on a member page where you are BOTH already following each other and the circuit is complete...and that icon needs to visually suggest a 'friend' type of connection somehow...to differentiate it from a one way follow.

And, there ought to be a direct invitation link in the 'new follower' notifications that takes you right to where you can reciprocate the follow if you like, along with specific instructions on following that member back to become 'friends'.
My members continue to have a hard time with the following concept as two separate actions and two directions. --> They think that by simply ACCEPTING (allowing) a new follower, they are now 'friends' and can PM...when in fact they've totally missed the part where they need to actively go follow that person back first. This happens over and over despite my repeatedly describing out how it works. It's non-intuitive and not simple or obvious to them.

Mutual Follow "Friends" button - plus Message

Design and Skin Customization

I'm not so much interested in the 'cometchat message' part of this being applied on my site, but I think the ability to quickly and easily know/see whether someone you are following is following you back and changes to a 'friend' would be a WONDERFUL improvement for Jamroom. It's something I've actually missed from back in Ning, and continues to confuse my members.
Think of it this way- if you are 'following' someone who's walking along the beach, they may not notice you're following them even though you're throwing pebbles at them to get their attention, and of course it's hard to talk with them. If on the other hand they stop, wait for you and you both start walking together, you are then 'friends' rather than merely followers and can communicate easily. Being friends is different from being a follower.
On jamroom there is no ONE place where one can obviously see that the connection circuit is complete from both parties. You can be someone's 'follower' forever but they can still not be following you and so you can't communicate as 'friends'.
In ning if someone 'followed' you, instead of a passive notification that merely shows they are following you, you'd get an INVITATION link to follow them back and become Friends. You could ignore the invitation or click it to quickly complete the circuit. Jamroom sends you a notice that someone has started following you- but there's no action link included in the notice to facilitate completing the connection both ways, and there's no visible differentiation between a one way follow and a two way completed connection.

If there was a new button or indicator that readily shows once a member is now your 'friend' (following connection has been completed both ways), then you would right away know the you are BOTH now following each other and private contact is possible. Also would love to see a QUICK ACTION LINK in the 'following' notification that enables one to instantly follow the person back, right from the notification link.
My members would definitely welcome this!

Resize Logo / Header ProJam Light

Design and Skin Customization

Look for the header height setting in the mobile_core.css style tab...adjust header height. There are a bunch of adjustable settings in the mobile_core.css "untagged" style TAB.

Resize Logo / Header ProJam Light

Design and Skin Customization

I use Filezilla (free) to access my JR server and the content on it. Took me a little while to put in the right settings to connect, but once I got connected I bookmarked it in filezilla, and get onto my server easily from then on. Maybe the JR guys can help you if you can't figure out some of the FZ info to put in to get connected. The logo.png you would find in your active skin's folder, in its img folder. I do know that in filezilla, in your network settings for connecting, the "User" field needs to be "jamroom". That tripped me up for a while.

Also- right click on that jamroom image in your banner and find out what that image file is named, just to be sure you know what to try and remove from your banner.
updated by @strumelia: 01/27/16 01:22:15PM

Resize Logo / Header ProJam Light

Design and Skin Customization

You shouldn't have the two logos showing in the banner- did you delete the Jamroom "logo.png" image from your server images folder altogether?

To add height or padding to your header (where your logo is going to fit), go via the ACP to your active skin, then the Style TAB, then set the dropdown menu to "header.css" and play with the header sizing settings in the four TABS color/padding/advanced/untagged.
It could be that your logo won't get any bigger than it is able to fit within the height of your header area. Try first increasing the header height under the 'advanced' tab there, in header.css 'style section'. Then maybe your logo will be able to show up bigger as you told it to, and will fit within the header area. Be sure to check on a mobile device to be sure you are not going overboard in header/logo sizing.


updated by @strumelia: 01/27/16 01:06:59PM

Resize Logo / Header ProJam Light

Design and Skin Customization

Some more related tips that might help you- The site code contains various references to the Jamroom logo which is called "logo.png" and is on your server. If you name your OWN logo "logo.png" and DELETE/replace Jamroom's png from your server, you can trick the site into simply looking for logo.png and showing YOUR logo instead of the jr image. Then you just would have to adjust the size of your logo as you like and adjust the site sizing code to match, as you know where to above.
You also should then go via ACP to your ACTIVE skin's "Images" TAB, and make sure the 'logo.png' setting points to your new image. Save changes and reset caches.




updated by @strumelia: 01/27/16 12:37:53PM

Server Configuration Help

Installation and Configuration

Yes I understand- thanks!

Problem with events all listing

Using Jamroom


Glad you fixed it!

Google Maps module- it's a 3rd party created module- have you asked the seller, Ultrajam, for help?
My members are older and often paranoid about being 'located' on maps, and our site is not as much event-centered as yours...so I have no need for a map module at least for now- sorry I cannot help in that area.

updated by @strumelia: 01/26/16 05:01:29PM