New Layout - again!

bypuppenizer10 months ago

Puhh, the new layout is up and running, and most of the corresponding bugs and errors should be cleared out now. If you still experience malfunctions please give me a note via the site's header contact link. A quick note to Internet Explorer users - some functionalities of the site may still not working properly. This is due to my humble abilities when it comes to the creation of clean cross-browser stylesheets and, of course, the fact that this damned browser comes straight out of hell . I will surely fix those bugs (most of them are just part of the guide editor anyway), but this may take a few days. All other major browsers don't seem to have any problems handling the site.

Besides the fact that the layout is still unfinished - obviously, no header graphics, etc. - there were some changes made to extend the site's usability. Just a few of those small improvements:

- comments on news (yeah right, no big deal)
- comments on ... *drumroll* .... guides ... long awaited, finally implented ... most authors have been crying to sleep during the last weeks not to be able to get feedback on their hard work - dry your tears, now there is a direct link from the guide's detail page to the corresponding forum discussion, hopefully it will be used a lot
- guide authors can now manually select their guide's faction to correct my dump server scripts
- quest browser has been reworked, so it should be more comfortable to use
- guide editor has been reworked, uses less space now so you don't have to scroll that much and should be also more comfortable to use now
- both, browser and editor, feature a new wowhead link/tooltip for quests, so it is possible to quickly verify the displayed data

To-Do list for the next days:

- finishing the layout
- improve my maintenance tools to get rid of all those small database errors that were collected during the last weeks
- improve guide selection, guide selection filter, guide detail page layouts
- implent promised new steps for editor and addon eg. hearth stone, flight master, sell and repair, etc.
- bugfixing, bugfixing and ... guess what ... bugfixing

That's it for now. Feel free to comment

Re: New Layout - again!

byswfreakforever10 months ago

I would like to extend a huge 'Thank You' to Pup and his hard work with this project. I've only been a part of this community for a small time now, and have really grown to consider this community project as the best "Sleeper" quest add-on that I have worked with.

What's great about it is that 'we' have the ability to make it great, and not rely only on the author's intended path. Much thanks to Pup for working very hard these last few days on tweaking the site and weeding out the bugs and glitches. I guess it's a good thing that I've been sick with the flu (no, not swine) for the past few days so that I can get a great hands-on with the new site and layout, and track down any gremlins that might be hiding throughout the site.

Pup, cheers to you for starting this project and for tuning it up to be better and better.

Can't wait to see what the future hold for QF!

Re: New Layout - again!

bypuppenizer10 months ago

Thanks for the flowers ! I really enjoy building up this small community, and I hope it will grow a lot during the next weeks and months. I guess more users will make the community even more enjoyable and fun - so let's see what the future brings.