Forum Activity for @claygordon

Ning Memo questions - why? and rename URL?

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This was never a feature of Ning I ever activated for my community, and it occupies a place somewhere between a Timeline post and a Blog post so I am sort of so-so about it.

Any reason why I shouldn't rename the URL (on the info page for the module from "ningmemo" to just "memo"? I want to remove all the Ning-ness I can from my JR community.

updated by @claygordon: 02/18/15 12:25:46AM

Text transform on profile menu

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I am happy to offer up my site as a guinea pig for the process!

Text transform on profile menu

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Two quick things on my home page now -

How to get rid of the little calendar icons on the Events block and where did the background color go in my Latest Forum Discussions block?

Text transform on profile menu

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Brian -

I think that some of the issue is that I have been working with Paul and there is stuff that is hard-coded into the templates that could be done in the CSS. That's why some CSS changes don't "take".

Home stretch before going live - home page needs

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More Progress - again in index.tpl, not in the CSS. Manual override.

Padding bottom to images in Latest Forum Posts - adds needed whitespace. Edited truncate of title length for more chars.

Fixed space to the left of the Recent Active Groups Name - removed no break space. (???)

Slowly, slowly ...

Home stretch before going live - home page needs

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Okay - Some Progress.

It turns out that padding above the Post Title is handled in the template itself, not in the CSS. Same for the line height. First ones down.

Home stretch before going live - home page needs

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Right now, the text formatting of the home page is all over the place. Looking for the classes and the files to twiddle. I would prefer not to have to create custom classes, but will if necessary. I am happy to make the changes using the ACP but it's not clear to me where things really are. I really do try to find them.

Screenshot #1 (top) - Forum

I want to tighten up the space above the Forum title. From the Chrome equivalent of Firebug it looks like it might be in index.css under .p5 - but .p5 appears to be padding-left.

I want to add a couple of pixels to the line spacing to the excerpt from the post. All of the text after the title (which is h3) appears to be in normal and the only place I see that class is in text.css, though it's inside a parent div blog-index-text? Changing the line height there from 12px to 14px didn't make any visible difference. However, doing it in the live editor makes the change I want. (Screenshot #2)

I also want to increase the space between the images. Again, I can do in the live editor but when I make the change in the CSS file and FTP it up there is no visible change when I refresh the page. I am in developer mode so I am not caching on the server and I am doing a hard reload of the page.

Screenshot #3

The line size and spacing in the Activity box for the item text is different from everything except Upcoming Events - size and spacing across things need to be the same.

In the Latest Profiles section the image size is smaller than in Groups and Events. I would like it to be the same size as the other two and the size of the name text the same as Groups and Events.

In Groups the Group name and description have different spacings from the image. ??

Finally, in Events, the description text is much larger than the description text for Groups - it appears to be the same size as Activity.

I am happy to do all the work - but I am at a total loss when it comes to finding the actual classes in the actual CSS files where the formatting is being done ... and understanding the inheritance relationship.

updated by @claygordon: 03/12/15 08:59:36AM

A few remaining issues in member images galleries

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Simplified the code to:


and it works as expected.

Thanks.

Reusing id numbers in language files - confusing?

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I was looking to change one of the strings on my profile page from "Latest Videos" to "Latest Uploaded Videos" because JR makes a difference between uploaded videos and videos from Vimeo and YouTube.

I searched on "Latest," got two results, and updated the one that did not have a modifier, and, as can be seen in the top image of the composite screenshot, three different labels on my profile page were modified.

It turns out that the one I need to update was Videos with an ID of 23. Of course, figuring out which one to select was a matter of chance without looking closely at the template code (ahhh, but which template?

Several things occur to me:

• Having one label appear in multiple places could be a source of confusion as this makes it necessary to check every page in case the language ID# is used on more than one page.
• Not having context in the search results (not knowing what page/s an ID is used on) makes for a lot more work than is absolutely necessary.

Neither of these is a huge priority, but when time permits, having unique language IDs along with knowing which page(s) or module(s) each language ID is used on/in could be helpful to those of us who'd prefer not taking a fine tooth comb to the templates to figure out which is which.


updated by @claygordon: 03/26/15 03:03:46AM

getting some link 'pages not found'....

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On my system, TCLSkin1 is clone of Ninja 1.0.12, not 1.0.14.

TCLSkin1 is set as active skin.

Compare to 1.0.14 - 404 for me.

Go have lunch. This is not top of my list (this morning here in NYC - just passed midnight).