Forum Activity for @michael

UX observation - keep tag cloud context

Installation and Configuration

Perhaps from this level:
https://www.jamroom.net/tags/documentation/modules

Move the "tag cloud" from the tabs to be a floating button on the right? That would visually move it out of the tabs and leave the ones that are connected to this level there.

UX observation - keep tag cloud context

Installation and Configuration


See what your saying, just not how to implement it other than taking the "Tag Cloud" tab out of there. The tabs are the secondary level to whats been selected in the tag cloud. Removing "Tag Cloud" takes away the ability to go back to the top.

UX observation - keep tag cloud context

Installation and Configuration

Yeah, that's better.

--edit--
Only thing that's still a little out is the tabs from the top level's destination.

eg:
start here: "Documentation"
https://www.jamroom.net/tags/documentation

Click 'modules' and arrive here:
https://www.jamroom.net/tags/modules

Its the same destination as if you had started at: "Marketplace".
https://www.jamroom.net/tags/networkmarket

and clicked 'modules'. The destination from "Documentation" as the initial start point should be:
https://www.jamroom.net/tags/documentation/modules

Start on the documentation tab, you want documentation.


updated by @michael: 01/20/15 04:02:34PM

Helping Members Make the Switch

Installation and Configuration

You Rock!

Asking for input - New Header and Menu concept

Installation and Configuration

Most menus on jamroom are nested un-ordered lists with some CSS applied.

If your wanting to build it yourself, use that structure. The jrMenu module in Site Builder will give you that menu if you turned Site Builder on. That decision depends on if you want to work more with code or drag-n-drop.

To add the jrMenu to an existing skin, see the Slate header.tpl file. Its this code:

--edit--
Here are the docs on making a skin Site Builder ready:

"Making a skin Site Builder Ready"
https://www.jamroom.net/site-builder/documentation/development/2349/making-a-skin-site-builder-ready

Its basically that line of code above for the menu, then one other for the body.
updated by @michael: 01/20/15 12:43:24AM

UX observation - keep tag cloud context

Installation and Configuration

Its not a bug. The tabs are representative of the items that are tagged with that tag.

Cant have an "all" tab if there is not a tab selected.

How it works:
* click on a tag from the tag cloud
* chose "da faqs"
* tabs appear and show "all" and "forum"

Because only "forum" has a tag 'da faqs'.

If there was an audio file also tagged 'da faqs' then the tabs would be
ALL | FORUM | AUDIO

Where "all" would show BOTH forum and audio.

--edit--
The only way to "Fix" it would be to add the tabs there with just the "Tag Cloud" tag. Why put a tab there if its the only option. Guess you could, but why.
updated by @michael: 01/20/15 12:33:31AM

profile playlist - how to add music to it

Design and Skin Customization

Playlists are something the user creates that ends up on their profile. So if they would browse around your site and if they like a song, they would add it to one of their playlists. That would make your song appear in their playlist.

There is no functionality to allow them to add to your playlist.

They can make several different playlists:
* reggae
* punk
* psytrance

Then browse around your site. You might have a song they like and have tagged it 'trance' but they can put that into the playlist they have named psytrance anyhow. Its just lists users create for themselves.

If you want a list of stuff from your profile on the front page of your profile, playlist might not be quite the right thing.

Selling digital downloads for fun and profit

Installation and Configuration


only is not correct.

One method (as you described):
"I make money by selling the subscription and my members make money on the downloads they sell. I get the revenue from FoxyCart and my members get 100% (less fees) from what they sell via their PayPal accounts."

Another method:
"I make money by giving subscriptions away for free and my members make money on the downloads they sell. I get all the revenue from FoxyCart then payout to my members the percentage set in their Quota (less fees). I payout at the determined interval to their PayPal accounts. I allow members the option to purchase a different subscription to lower their per sale fees in exchange for a /month fee."

eg:
quota 1:
* can sell downloads
* get to keep 75% of the sale (after processing fees)
* cost per month $0
* payout on the 1st of every month.

quota 2:
* can sell downloads
* get to keep 95% of the sale (after processing fees)
* cost per month $10
* payout on the 1st and 15th of every month.

Or any other variation you can think of.

Context sensitive menu in Tiny MCE editor?

Installation and Configuration

The context editor is on by default. Its needed to allow you insert images that exist on other URLs. (and has some other useful things too, like adding the alt text to an image and adding some padding to an image )

The controls for it are right click inside the TinyMCE editor. It works every time for me here.
updated by @michael: 01/19/15 11:42:22PM

Can I Non Techie Do This?

Installation and Configuration

Turn it on, try it out, if you don't like it turn it off.

I cant comment on "Loose 3 months of work" because I don't know what you have done. It should all still be useful though, you just need to set it up in a different way.

Any templates you've been using can still be used.