Tuesday, 16 February 2010

Minor Updates and Tidy up

Ive tried to tidy up the site today, cleaning up code, files and general layout of the site as well. One thing done was that now the items are styled like the rest of the site as you can see in their curved purple boxes for clear and easy to see separate itemsThere was a lot of included javaScript files, double inserts and a lot more which I have worked my way through to tidy and remove any not needed files. So this should help speed the site up a little. The first forum page now has a jQuery linking table rows so you can click anywhere in the highlighted area instead of just the text to take you to the correct page.

After adding a tab the sorting of tabs in the edit tab box was breaking. This has now been resolved. This was introduced when I was fixing the position of the pop up box.

Due to a reuse of the btn_jQ class across the site for buttons to make them look nicer, and it was also used on portfolio page for some jQuery meant that on submitting or clicking other buttons not related to the "add item" section, The box would open before taking you to the page you had clicked or submitted. This is now resolved by spliting the classes to "btn" and "jQ" with the items that meant to have the jQuery on have both classes.

Now if you delete a tab which you are currently on. It will take you to the overview page after the Ajax has finished! This stops users being able to add, delete and edit items on the already deleted tab page.

I also got the sample collection of users I will be asking to test my site. A email will go out to around 200 users who took part in my questionnaire earlier in the year.

I did a quick build on the contact us page so that it has some more text as well as a small form that posts a email to me just like the feedback one does.
Also now on the add items I have added a small paragraph explaining each one, How it works, what file types are accepted to help guide the user through the site.

I have also now order a server which I was hoping I would get details to today, but I have yet to receive them. Once I do the server will be put on-line and I will try to get my testing stage started as soon as possible with the sample users shown above.

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