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Yes, I'd rather have the forum's left nav bar on the home page instead of the chapters and stuff that is there, but I understand why most of those are there.
If, I repeat if, I enter the CodeProject site through the home page, then my first navigation is using the Message dropdown and I choose C#, from then on everything is one click away.
I too like a minimal-click policy but you probably can't satisfy everyone. And so far a lot of things that could be personalized, just aren't; probably to keep code, maintenance and support simple.
BTW: I'm sure you are aware of this, some browsers, e.g. FireFox, offer a toolbar where you can add buttons to several pages, I have more than 10 of those, extremely useful. That single feature is sufficient to switch from IE to FF!
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google
- the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get
- use the code block button (PRE tags) to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets
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Luc Pattyn wrote: BTW: I'm sure you are aware of this, some browsers, e.g. FireFox, offer a toolbar where you can add buttons to several pages, I have more than 10 of those, extremely useful. That single feature is sufficient to switch from IE to FF!
It's a good point - I don't use my browser's functionality to its full extent. Maybe I should, but then again if I switch to another computer it entails faffing around trying to set the thing up the same as the other, or importing settings, or wondering why settings don't import & etc. I must be getting old, because my patience with that sort of thing runs out pdq!
print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text
Ain't that Groovy?
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martin_hughes wrote: my patience with that sort of thing runs out
yes, the burden of progress can be heavy.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google
- the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get
- use the code block button (PRE tags) to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets
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How about we add the quicklinks box and have a link in every page "Add this to my Quick Links"?
You would then be able to manage your quicklinks through the 'My bookmarks' page
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Well that sounds very good indeed. Would there be a link up top in My Bookmarks for Forums QuickLinks like there is for Articles and Members?
print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text
Ain't that Groovy?
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Not my Idea.
Williamnw came up with 101
I vote for him!
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"May I introduce Blon Fel-Fotch Pasermeer-Day Slitheen from the planet Raxacoricofallapatorious, known by her friends as Margaret"
The Doctor
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I need something more descriptive and memorable
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: I need something more descriptive and memorable
Ferrets. That's pretty memorable.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys
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Cubicle Space?
Cubicle Graffiti?
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FF3.06. Pasting a URL nothing happens. The link[^] button does nothing. THe link button tries to navigate to a different page.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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FireFox 3.0.6 on Vista, and 3.0.5 on MacOS X, and everything works perfectly.
Do you have add-ins installed? Javascript disabled?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Everytime I try to change my display name, it shows a message "The name you supplied has already been registered. Please choose another, or try retrieving your password if that is your member name".
TVMU^P[[IGIOQHG^JSH`A#@`RFJ\c^JPL>;"[,*/|+&WLEZGc`AFXc!L
%^]*IRXD#@GKCQ`R\^SF_WcHbORY87֦ʻ6ϣN8ȤBcRAV\Z^&SU~%CSWQ@#2
W_AD`EPABIKRDFVS)EVLQK)JKSQXUFYK[M`UKs*$GwU#(QDXBER@CBN%
Rs0~53%eYrd8mt^7Z6]iTF+(EWfJ9zaK-iTV.C\y<pjxsg-b$f4ia>
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128 bit encrypted signature, crack if you can
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What name are you trying? With nearly 6 million registered members it is getting tight.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Xmen...my current one...how can be its someone else if its already mine
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Rs0~53%eYrd8mt^7Z6]iTF+(EWfJ9zaK-iTV.C\y<pjxsg-b$f4ia>
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sorry for double post, but actually I want to change the look of my name by using html code. But...
TVMU^P[[IGIOQHG^JSH`A#@`RFJ\c^JPL>;"[,*/|+&WLEZGc`AFXc!L
%^]*IRXD#@GKCQ`R\^SF_WcHbORY87֦ʻ6ϣN8ȤBcRAV\Z^&SU~%CSWQ@#2
W_AD`EPABIKRDFVS)EVLQK)JKSQXUFYK[M`UKs*$GwU#(QDXBER@CBN%
Rs0~53%eYrd8mt^7Z6]iTF+(EWfJ9zaK-iTV.C\y<pjxsg-b$f4ia>
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128 bit encrypted signature, crack if you can
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I am always getting "Other popular Applications & Tools articles" under any article, no matter to which category the article belongs. Is this only me?
Regards,
Syed Mehroz Alam
My Blog
My Articles
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination. - Albert Einstein
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Found the bug. Will be fixed next time the process updates (within 6 hrs)
Thanks!
All fixed
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
modified on Thursday, March 5, 2009 10:21 PM
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it just went poof.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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Um.
"Poof" as in "Not there"?
Which page were you on?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Yes, not there. IT happened here, both lounges, and IIRC the C# forum. It fixed itself when i next visited about 30m later. I think I got the sidebar that goes iwth the post message/reply page although I'm not certain about that.
Edit: to clarify, it happened on every forum I visited at the time (only 2 or 3 total).
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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I used to see a different Left Nav bar when in a forum (listing all other forums). This has now gone kaput. I see the same Left Nav for homepage as Forums.
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Can you please send a screenshot?
Which browser? Which page?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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All back to normal now Chris.
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Hey Chris!
We're fast approaching the 6 million member mark. Gads, I recall when we reached 10,000...
How about a competition to guess what date and time we'll cross the mark? Maybe award the winner with a breeding pair of hamsters and one cage...
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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When I see the article version to one article, it always shows the CreationDate stamp on every version, not the date on which the article is modified.
Just in my article here, I see all my versions to the article in same date.
Is it a bug???
modified on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 2:52 PM
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