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I added a photos module on the front page that pulls in images from the EBCC group on Flickr. You can join that group and upload your favorite EBCC related photos, and they will show up on the photos page.
I have also added a Strava module on the front page that shows the latest activity for the EBCC Strava group.
-Brent
Webmeister
How about adding a slick meta tag image that I can drop on my home page as a book mark icon?? Now that would be styling. See you on the road
I'll have to create a apple iPhone/iPad icon. I've done that for other sites I've worked on. I'll put it on my to do list.
Brent,
Just a quick question: Is there some mechanism for adding family members names to a family membership? There does not appear to be a spot on the membership application to list other family members. Thanks.
Tom
> Is there some mechanism for adding family members names to a family membership? There does not appear to be a spot on the membership application to list other family members.
I can add additional family members through the site admin tools, but it looks like I need to add that functionality on the front end for family memberships. For now, email me if you need to add additional people on a family membership, and I can add them
-Brent
Wow....Cool website Brent!!! Thanks!
(Looks like it's been up for a while now, I guess it's obvious that I don't go on the site much during the winter)
Hi Brent,
Any chance you could work in an embedded survey tool into the web site? I have seen them before where a question is asked, the results are graphed and anyone can view the results and votes as long as you have voted. This would be great for setting dates, times, etc. for things like a summer party or end of year ride/party. Power to the majority.
Thanks.
> Any chance you could work in an embedded survey tool into the web site? I have seen them before where a question is asked, the results are graphed and anyone can view the results and votes as long as you have voted. This would be great for setting dates, times, etc. for things like a summer party or end of year ride/party. Power to the majority.
It's something I can look into and add to my to do list. I don't want to reinvent the wheel, so I might be able to use something like surveymonkey.com and embed surveys and results into the site that we create there.
Jim, are you looking for full survey capabilities or just the quick question polls you see on some other forums? questions like:
Should we Ride tonight Yes/No? How clean is your bike on the Landiclean scale?
An embedded survey tool would lead to democracy regarding rides and other activities and make much easier and more fair decisions.
Members could prefer to start a survey from a thread to poll functions such as get-together's (ex. which date do you prefer the Fall picnic?) and questions about rides that are not defined on the calendar (ex. Do you prefer a 40 mile or 60 mile ride?). If you vote in the survey you get to see the results. I've seen this elsewhere and it works nicely to bring peeps together. Just a simple tool for single questions only.
I have no idea of the cost, the programming or the maintenance of this so it might be too much. Just an idea.
Brent, there is a bug with the website when viewing via an iphone the EBCC grey bar blocks the box where you type a post. And if you rotate your screen it corrupts the post and you get an error and loose what ever you were posting. Its easily reproducable. I am using iphone 5s with latest iOS and the chrome browser.
The error you get is, "the page you are looking for is not there" and you post never gets posted.
It takes two times to login each time. The first time you fill in your information and hit the login button it wipes everything out. The second time works each time.
When making an edit, about 50% of the time I get a error message after I hit the Edit button: "The page you were looking for doesn't exist...."
> Brent, there is a bug with the website when viewing via an iphone the EBCC grey bar blocks the box where you type a post. And if you rotate your screen it corrupts the post and you get an error and loose what ever you were posting. Its easily reproducable. I am using iphone 5s with latest iOS and the chrome browser. > > The error you get is, "the page you are looking for is not there" and you post never gets posted.
I see what you are saying with the Chrome Browser on the iPhone. It works fine with the Safari Browser on the iPhone. If I have time, I'll see if I can figure out the problem, but you can use Safari if you need to post something on mobile.
-Brent
Brent, just a few more suggestions for future enhancements to the site. It would be nice if we could condense the top portion of the site. On my laptop at the moment 85% of my screen is taken up by Gray menu bar, EBCC logo, Breadcrumbs, forum description, back button , and large text on what I'm replying to. I have only 4 lines of usable typing space in this posting text box before I have to scroll. it's taking approx 700 pixels of vertical space and everything is stacked on the left side vs distributed over a standard screen width. It would be nice to condense all of that down to no more than 200 pixels of total header. I would also suggest the same on the forum listings, by shrinking the font down to standard web fonts we would gain a lot more usable space, if people want larger fonts they could use the built in browser zoom/scale functions to increase the size.
I think functionality is strong on the site, it's just the layout/configuration that could benefit from less white-space and tighter fit of the information to give a smoother user experience... I do want to say that this is still a far more modern and functional site vs our old one.
> everything is stacked on the left side vs distributed over a standard screen width.
I'll have to test things out on more browsers because I don't see that. What operating system / browser / version are you using on your laptop?