Personal thoughts on new site design

Thought 1:
Wow... this looks similar to APEX. I wonder if we could get some of the Region Plugins?
Thought 2:
Looking for the 'forum' I'm interested in seems harder than it should be.
My current process:
browse -> places
click on "spaces"
hope somebody in the group you're interested has posted
if yes, goto step 8 (click on that link)
if no, continue
click on the 'super group' (eg "Oracle Database")
spend 5 min hunting the desired forum [1][2]
click on that link
click on content [3][4]
look at threads
[1] a simple "order by upper()" would shorten the time to find it
[2] sometimes I'm just "browsing the forums" and looking around at what is available.
[3] Too much content in "Overview". I don't want to see any snippets of the most recent posts.
However, if there was a way to show/hide the snippets (with HIDE as default) that would be better.
[4] Due to the speed at which things change (especially irrelevant, not CURRENTLY interested topics), the Report with 'snippets' are like a mailbox full of SPAM.
Thought 3:
I'm making a post...now, how do I make the example CODE look clean when viewed?
Is it possible to add a magic button that will "Format and color PL/SQL" selected code?
(and can that be an Plugin for APEX?)

This isn't APEX. It is still Jive, but a newer version. Regarding code, you can in the advanced editor. Click the advanced editor link in the standard editor, then select your code and choose the double arrows -> Syntax Highlighting.
The code tags are apparently no longer necessary. (Which I personally welcome).

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I am curious as to what everyones thoughts are on the new redesign of iOS 7?
I personally dont like it. I have never liked the flat, bland look of a OS. That is one of my biggest complaints of Windows Phone and Windows 8 is the OS is just bland and lacks any character. Now Apple has adopted the same concept.
I will admit some aspects of the new OS looks nice even with the flat appearance but there are just to many ugly spots. And what is up with the dots for signal strength? I am going to wait and see it in person at a Apple store before I make a final judgement and will wait for the jailbreak community for any news on a potential iOS 7 jailbreak. Otherwise while i still love the build quality of the devices I may end up switching to Andorid.

Flat appearance! Funny. I have an android and I have never owned a iphone. But, wow was I ever impressed by Mr.. Steve F's presentation. I can see that the designers of IOS7 put a lot of thought into beefing up the iOS. I was deeply disappointed by Scott Forstall's presentation in 2012. It was great effort on his part, but the details were missing. I think dangerously so. Kudos to Tim Cook, Ive, Schiller, Steve F., and all others who worked directly or indirectly for their hard work on updating the iOS software. Its useful, simple, easy on the eyes, and manageable. He(Steve F.) drove home a point with Air Drop and using it to share items with others. "No having to go around the room and touch your phone to others!" Truly awesome! Automatic grouping of your photos. I can hardly wait too until the final version of iO7 in the Fall.

The new site design is...

awesome

abstracity wrote:I think it's awesome! Whoever was behind the page's design did an outstanding job, in my opinion. In the beginning, my feelings were the same as a couple of others here: I was not entirely swayed when I first saw the winning logo, whose creator did an equally fantastic job, by the way. I wasn't too sure if the new logo could accommodate a web layout that reflected Arch's rational elegance. I must admit that I had a rather pessimistic attitude towards the whole thing, and I think I am correct by saying now that the individuals who worked at the logo integration saw something that I did not.
Some of it might be a bit ugly for a while. I slapped all the headers in tonight without much regard for the colors quite yet. So there are still some tweaks to come.
abstracity wrote:I do have one question, though. Was Judd involved in the logo selection process and the site's re-design? It would be wonderful to know that the brainchild of this elegant distribution, the individual who was the one who conceived of this entire thing, played a part in the composition, or at least had given his genuine approval for the proposed logo.
To partially answer your question, Judd did vote on the logos with the rest of us, so yes we had his input

I have just started to use Muse for our design agency and learning how to build ourselves a new site, I have manged to create a basic lightbox which contains sliding images, what I need to do now is have a pop up window which goes into detail about the pr

I have just started to use Muse for our design agency and learning how to build ourselves a new site, I have managed to create a basic lightbox which contains sliding images, what I need to do now is have a pop up window which goes into detail about the projects, what I would like is a piece of text or icon that when you roll over it and then click a separate window pops up with additional information in, once finished reading the info you can then click to close the box, any advice on how to do this?

The best way to do what you're asking is with the Composition widget. Start with the Tooltip preset, which, by default shows the info on rollover. You can change the option to show on click, which is what you're after. You can also add the close button or have the info disappear on rollout.
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New SiteWare & Design. Apple or MicroHard?

THIS POS SiteWare: I am very displeased with the "New and Improved" Discussions design.
It is a good thing that I am a power user, because...
I lost my BOOKMARKED "personalized" page (it defaulted to the new front end page)
Lost all "following/created" associations to my account - had to "Intuitively" drill down from the "N&I" front end to get to my REALLY active post (which indicated I was already following it) -
I had to click the FOLLOW link/button & click it again which made it really 'followed' by my identity.
Oddly, this seemed to trigger the follow/created quality in all the others though -
I guess we can assume Apple to be just like MicroSoft now.
Call a documented BUG a FEATURE next?
AutoSave is broken...
Login times out while composing posts (like this one)
WARNING: If one has a really important post, compose it in TextEdit then copy/paste into the compose pane then REPLY button -- quick.!
Sincerely distressed over devTeam's rollout of such a buggy system. I had thought better of Apple but now think -- Just like MicroSoft... release BARELY BETA to the Wide World -- then fix bugs reported by PUBLIC BETA for later Service Packs...
Shame on Apple

Terence, you seem to have focused on my angry rant, which in my opinion was rather restrained under the circumstances, rather than the issues. I appreciate your restraint in flaming me - using sarcasm is a true art.
I would be happy to debate the issues, but I think that, with you, that would be a waste of time. Kind of expect more from from a veteran (do you like that word better?) as yourself. Level 10. Member since 2004 I see. Lotsa points. Oddly, your profile picture reflects my mood right now.
Regarding the 'entire Internet', maybe it's time someone said it. What once was a community of bright, innovative, talented, etc. people has slipped some since the untimely demise of Steve Jobs.
Perhaps you would prefer that I defend myself and my choice of of such an empty term as 'power user.' You kinda asked for it.
So I will toot my own horn a bit before I get to the issues. I have been a Mac user and Interactive Developer since before the Internet existed. Google, Facebook, et al inventors were maybe not even born. I have developed Interactives when the only way to deliver was on 1 floppy - to computers that were just getting GUIs. I have been an expert with Director Lingo since before Java existed and Flash was invented and Macromedia bought it as a vector graphic asset creation tool. I sat in the small conference room on Elm Street - Dallas with the team of Broadband Interactive led by Mark Cuban as he said, "This will either mean Billions or we will all be out of a job in two weeks."
I have led development on many interactive projects, some 'rescue' redesigns, for many companies, some of which you may recognize, such as:
ADVO Systems, American Airlines Training Division, Aquent Partners, AutoRealty Products, Bass & Martin, Black Swan Graphics, BodyBilt Seating, Burk Advertising & Media (BAM!), Business Works Interactive, COGENSYS, Columbian Country Club, Corporate Magic, CounterPoint Media Partners, Cushman Realty Corp., CYBERTEK Corp., Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Multimedia, Dallas Video Festival, DataTegrity, DDB Needham Interactive, Design Interactive, Electric Pogo Stick, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), ErgoBilt, Event Concepts, FASTSIGNS, Frantz Printing Service, GoTel Ministries, Gourmet Curriculum Press, Haddon House Food Products, Handango, Image Graphics, Inc., Intelecon Services, International Interactive Communications Society (IICS), Kaye Interior Design, LaserTech Color, Launch Partnership, LLC (Attorneys), LLC., Lockheed-Martin (Tactical Aircraft Systems - F22 Raptor Project), Marketing Management Inc. (ImMotion), MarketPoint, Media-2-Me, MM Concepts, NORTEL, onlinecourier.net, Peterson & Co., Powell Companies (Exhibit Dynamics), Powerhouse Productions, ProformaVisions Inc., Programmed Communications, PSM International, Regali Concepts, Sanctuary Woods Multimedia Company, Select Payment Processing, Society of Technical Communicators (Multimedia SIG), Sonic Media, Stokes Interactive(The Stokes Group), Stratelligence, Temerlin-McClain(Launch Partnership), Tenneco Packaging, Texas Instruments (DLP Group and Executives), Texas Utilities(TxU), The Art Squad, The Brock Companies, timeafter.com, TPA Inc., Twin Laboratories (twinlab.net), WillowBrook Communications, Willowisp Press.
To the point... Interactive Design is about the user, first last and always. If it aint broke, don't fix it.
My professional evaluation is this:
The new site has been developed to the "least common denominator" = iPhone/iPads
And been designed to be more like Facebook, twitter or the ilk than a Discussions/Help Bulletin Board (the tried and true solution)
Just look at the gateway page for proof... a bunch of icons to tap.
We, my friends, are the public Beta testers kinda like Windows OS rollouts - you seem to have scanned the entire Internet pretty quickly, wonder what the record is for Service Packs? The bugs are just a by-product of a poor process. Some bugs are expected, but this place is crawling with 'em -
I'd say live and learn, but Apple won't. Can't now, it's too late to put the Windows back in the bottle.
====================
Now, to issues.
There is no way to workaround the loss of having the meager robustness of the old "personalized" user page.
Figured out a way to work-around the login timeout while posting problem - Do This OFTEN == Command + Click [the "Terrence Devlin" for example] LINK to open a new tab then close it to come back to your composition. Activity inside the compose pane is not sufficient to reset timout timer, it seems. The other workaround is to compose in TextEdit (or select all your composition - then use [browser] Services - TextEdit - New Window with Selection = start post over then copy/paste from TextEdit into the new compose pane. Not as elegant, but you don't have to remember to do it.
In case you unaware, you can't post/reply if you are not logged-in, so if you get up to take a c***, you can't post when you are finished composing.
Further, what tells me there is a problem is the SiteWare itself. BTW, the link in the alert does nothing. The alert pops up and goes away in 5 seconds. no time to read fully or react to click the dead link. Contact the System Administrator? Who would that be? How? Wait wait don't go away!! Aaaahh!
This is still a major bug - a workaround is never an acceptable solution.
One needs to be able to Delete one's own post (as well as edit it, of course).
the following is an example of timeout and no-delete as well as another bug.
When choosing to respond to Terrence, I clicked the link in my email notification. Resulted with Terrence's post in a page. So far so good. Had to login of course, back to Terrence's post page.
When I clicked Reply, the subsequent page had an "Announcement-like" pane at the top, above the compose pane, informing me that I had a "Previously Auto-Saved" version of the post I was getting ready to compose - for the FIRST TIMe I might add. Choices were (something like) Restore & Delete. I chose to retore it just to what it was...
Turned out to be a partial post from a thread in PowerBook forum regarding my Pismo battery misbehaving. This thread spans before and after rollout timeframe but the specific post was after rollout.
This partial post is where I discovered the timeout issue, lack of delete and now totally erroneous association to another thread in a different Forum.
Heres the link to the thread in hopes you have an answer for my battery issue. [Terrence? 123k points?]
Pismo new battery flashing light then dead
These few issues are BUGS, plain and simple. If I can get them to happen with merely a few minutes of trying to use the new SiteWare, these should have been caught in Alpha testing just as fast.
just imagine what lies ahead and don't forget to submit bug reports - Oh Wait! There's no way to do that! Scattershot posts all over the various forums cannot be collated and acted upon. Gee is no bona fide bug forum just an oversight, or is it Grand Design?
Maybe some of you Level-10ers (better than power user?) have an iside track with the powers that be?
Well, I guess I'll TRY to post this... we'll see.
Adios to this topic. Ya'll figger it out

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Hi - I am finally ready to launch, publish, load my newly designed site.
This is not really a new site but fully redesigned with new files, on a different computer, by a different person than the current site.
I have set-up my server. The test connection works.
I have left the Root Directory blank.
All the files are saved on my computer in the: Sites folder, then in: Michael_Gabriel_Music folder. They have been uploaded to the remote server.
I have a file named: index.html in the main folder: Michael_Gabriel_Music. Each additional page has a folder with its page html.
The site is http://michaelgabrielmusic.com. Right now it is the old version - the new version is darker.
Any thoughts on what is going wrong?
I appriciate the help!

I think bregent has the answer.
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Microsoft IIS (Windows) servers have a different default root directory for websites.
Call your hosting provider and ask where your root is and correctly define that for your server settings in Dreamweaver and you will be able to upload and see your new website.

Uploaded new site but want to keep old site-previous topic didn't help

Hello there, hailing from Australia. I've actually read a similar topic on this problem I have. I'm using GoLive 8.0.1 and have just completed a website for a client and wish to upload it to the server. I've used GoLive everytime to publish the site. Except there is a current website on that same domain that should remain untouched and I just want to "add" a totally new site on that server so that the client can see how the new site works online. The previous topic (can't remember what it was called right now) suggested to create a new folder and just call it "New_Site" and drop all the new items into there, so if the client wishes to view it in their browser on their end, they just need to enter www.theirdomain.com.au/New_Site. Of course, I followed the suggestion based on my understanding but something tells me I must have done something wrong somewhere. I've tried that but a webpage with 404 error just appears and says it can't be found. So I tested my website on another domain which was originally empty and it works fine there. What am I missing? Please keep in mind that I'm a complete newbie to GoLive and website design. This is probably my very first site but have so far found my experience with web design not as daunting as I thought when using GoLive. Any sugesstions would be much appreciated:)

Hello There steve cameron and Tony Goodnight, thanks for your valuable insight, time and knowledge. I have followed all the steps you guys suggested but it still didn't work. I'm still at the same 404 page I encountered. I'm not sure if the forum allows screenshots but here there they are:
pic1.jpg depicts the site I created on the left and the uploaded site on the right.
Take note, I did create a New_Site on the server (pic2.jpg)
pic3.jpg shows the details I entered in site preferences:
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Again as mentioned, I've tested the exact site and uploaded the exact file structure with no changes to file names or anything, on another web hosting server which originally has nothing on it and the site works fine there, so that should mean my website is working fine.
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Hi there.
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When I first opened iWeb '09, my initial site didn't appear at all. I went ahead and designed a new site for a different purpose, thinking that my old one would be intact. It now seems not to exist as navigating to web.mac.com/leighthompson takes me to the new site (which is currently password protected).
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Here is the scenario. (SharePoint 2013)
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Any thoughts on this?
J

I also experiencing the same issue. I also tried to create a new site-collection using publishing site template, resulting in "list not found" error.
Later I tried just a team-site (with content) -> the same error.
The error appears on two different (post SP1) farms. That's why I tested the site-collection creation on an old (pre SP1) farm: the error doesn't exist. Site-Collections are created properly.
My conclusion is: either SharePoint SP1 or a later CU causing the error.
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Okay I have a new Dreamweaver website that I just created for my brother in-laws law firm and want to publish in onto an ftp server but the sever already has the existing site published onto it and before I have it pulled down I would like to publish this new site on there to see if everything is going to work okay and if everything is displayed correctly. Does anyone know if there is a way I can do this and how to do it? Please help!!!
Thanks

I typically create a TEST folder on the remote site. Upload new pages and dependant files there for debugging and testing purposes. Then using a 3rd party ftp ware (filezilla, cute ftp or Ws_ftp pro), I move the new site files & folders over to the root directory. If you have used the same filenames as were on the old site, new pages will overwrite the old ones. If you used a different naming convention, you will need to delete old files from server.
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