Fresno Famous

suggestions to hollywood

A suggestion(s) don't make you famous. an agent

name in credits fan base money ect.

(1)

mines gone.

thanks.

Edluv and Wiffle, the

Edluv and Wiffle, the problem should be fixed now. can you confirm?

Me Too

I too still have two phantom messages in my inbox. I think someone cares and then I go to check and nothing...such is my life....jk...no, but really.
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i still see a (1)

hey, i keep mentioning the phantom message in my inbox, and it's not changing. i'm not just waiting and hoping.

Your issue should be fixed.

Your issue should be fixed. May i recommend in the future, if you experience such problems, just ask for them to be fixed. Simply waiting and hoping they go away will rarely result any anything but continuance of your problem.

I don't get the phantom

I don't get the phantom message e-mail, I'm a bit jealous.

PLEASE fix the Inbox problem...

You know, the new Fresno Famous site is fine and dandy (I liked the original better--but I'm that way about everything...). There is one thing I was REALLY hoping would be fixed with the redesign and that is the problem with the phantom message in my inbox. Everyday I get an email from FF telling me I have a new private message---there's nothing there. When I scroll over the directory bar at the top and move it over "account" it shows that there is a meesage in my inbox...and there NEVER is. This has been going on forever. I just ignore it. I can't be the only one this is happening to but GEEZ! You'd think with the new site they would have fixed glitches like this. It's annoying---PLEASE fix it.

Thanks!

Have I mentioned...

I really really love the huge variety and amount of groovy pix that we now see when popping onto FresnoFamous.

You all will have to grant

You all will have to grant permissions to do so--you have those options because you're a Drupal administrator. Doing so, however, will also give people the ability to publish as "sticky" or to the front page, if any of your lists take that into account.

drafts

one option would be to un-click the published check box under the "Publishing Options" expandable menu right above the submit button. You could then click the published checkbox when you are finished with the blog. I know this isn't the most elegant of options but it's an option until we can look into creating a draft feature.

I believe no unpublished items are viewable to anyone other than the person who created it, or at least it wont show up on any of the main pages. (but I could be wrong)

Sometimes

I'm working on a blog, and I only have time for one paragraph.

How's about a save draft kind of thing so i can pick up where I left off....

Diablo

return of the phantom (1) message

i really do appreciate the listing in my account and in the header bar deal of how many private messages i have.

however, it still tells me that i have 1 new message, and i don't. my inbox has the same 12 messages, most of which i read a long time ago.

RSS Feed

I wish there was an RSS feed for the recent comments page :(

I agree, this new format is

I agree, this new format is much better than the old one. Recent comments and a very simple, easy to navigate front page that allows you to see what content is available and allows you to access it is key.

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetah

muchisimas gracias
Diablo

The Account menu has been

The Account menu has been updated and will now reflect the number of new messages in your inbox

Still want

the (1) next to my inbox....

I don't want to waste time checking if I don'thave to....

Diablo

joining famous

How about making a little easier for us old computer illiterate folks to join. I've tried 4 times. A I cannot read the username and emmail adress entries. I have tried this four time assuming one might have got through I clicked log in. It requires a password and how do I get that.

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Oscar

System suggestions

It would be great if the "Recent Posts" menu selection worked, or if in the My Account area it showed that. It's hard to go back to find discussions in which I participated.

Beware a theocracy! Want to see one in action, go to Iran.

http://www.fresnofamous.com/pres/lloyd.html

Don't delete sideshow spoken narratives.

as promised, the search is

as promised, the search is back up, and so is twitter. just mouse over the little T icon on the right side of the navigation bar and the twitter messages will pop up. if they lag, that's all twitter, its the best i can do for now. i've got another idea to solve that though, but it's gonna have to wait.

thanks for the input

thanks for the input television fontman. there is a game plan for twitter. i believe you that it may have been occurring in the past 30 days, but i've noticed it for much longer (like since february) so we temporarily removed it until i can finish my fix for the problem.

i swear, i'll put the search up first thing in the morning. i've got so many things going at once, i keep forgetting about that.

you would need to get in touch with the amalgamation & coalition dept. to discuss your cahoots. but from a technological point of view, i would have a blast doing something like that. live city view cams are captivating to me.

and i don't know anything about those podcasts really, they come from someone else (pretty sure from whitewater).

I for one used the Twiter

I for one used the Twiter API. The latency you describe isn't an on going problem as Twitter itself has been experiencing severe growing pains the past 30 days. All these probs have been well doccumented in the global tech blogs and podcasts. Even though it's tweekey right now, it's still better and more functional than the current alternatives.

Something I would like, and actually needed recently, is a way to search across all forum content and header text to find history on items I am interested in researching.

I would also like to see FF get into cahoots with a sponsor downtown and in the Tower District to provide updated livecam snap-shots of the areas.

Finally, since it is probably inevitable anyways, when is the 30 min weekly audio podcast going to be turned loose? As some who doesn't live in Fresno anymore, I am still wanting to be in tune to the local scene in addition to a web site portal.

I love Famous

The site was due for a change. It is moving into the web 2.0 or is it 3.0? Whatever!

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I second that. This

I second that. This background just kills the eyes.

I beg of you, change it back

I beg of you, change it back to dark letters on a white background. Pleeease.

Famous Bands

You may have noticed the layout of the "Famous Bands" and "All Bands" pages had been a little messed up since the redesign. I took the time to day to switch it from a table based layout to divs so we can control the layout better and make it so that you can actually see all the content of those pages. Thanks to everyone for the patience.

Also if you haven't noticed all blogs and audio now have a star rating system on them. Neat.

Recent posts

The recent post section is pulling in the recently updated blogs, articles, audio, and forum topics. I can filter out the most recent blog posts and sour grapes post from the recent posts section if that is whats wanted.

Does anyone else have an opinion on this topic?

Thanks and one suggestion.

First off, it's obvious that you guys really are tweaking and adjusting and trying to make FresnoFamous' new format all good and wonderful---thanks for all that.

Here's something: In the quest to make as much of the content visible on the front page but without getting all cluttered?.....how about everything in the 'Recent Posts' column being stuff that *isn't* already in the 'Sour Grapes' or 'Recent Blogs" column. I'm not sure if that's possible,
but that way you'd have several more threads being displayed up front yet take up no extra space.

swaping

I just swapped the mid section on the front page, because we felt it will help the content page flow a little better. We thought the advertisements on the left was breaking up the content to much, so we decided to do something about it. If you hate it, let us know.

wow, that just clicked. lol,

wow, that just clicked. lol, it only took like 2 hours for what you said to sink in. i finally noticed that it does say index instead of inbox. haha, i'll fix that now

Well

that's a great idea on the only if there was a new message icon. Part of what really set off the (1) was it being a different color. If it popped up in yellow or red, being that the page is kind of lined up to draw you left, a message off to the right doesn't really stand out. A different color would help there.

As an aside, for myself, the ads kind of push me away from that side of the page.

Diablo

i'll definitely get on that.

i'll definitely get on that. i've know about it for a while but since nobody brought it up, i've been working on the other stuff. I think it's pretty messed up right now (which is also why i've been avoiding it), like no links to anything or like you said, notifications. in addition, i was kinda thinking about a little icon up in the nav bar next to the account/logout links that would only appear if you had new messages in your inbox.

Inbox (1)

I missed some messages in my inbox cause I was used to the heads up (1) next to my inbox icon. I didn't see the (1) so I didn't check my inbox. That'd be nice to have back.

It also seems that the Inbox is now called the Index. Not sure sure that is very intuitive. Perhaps a misspell? Took a random guess from me to find my missed messages.

Diablo

Thanks thereminman... Its

Thanks thereminman... Its hard to keep track of how everything is ordered and sorted, but i'll keep an eye on it and see if its inappropriately bumping stuff.

edit buttons are 'go'

yup. did it yesterday. it served me well.
It *did* cause my post *the sprawlzilla evening show* one to hop back up on the front page when I pressed 'submit' after the edit. I'm not sure this is what ya want.

and BY THE WAY----hot dang but you folks are hustling over there in FresnoFamous land. I realize there are still problems, but you guys are fixing it all on the run. Definitely appreciated.---hey , but where's that cool bit on Docabilly that I saw in the Bee this morning.
Is it on here somewheres?

we totally forgot about

we totally forgot about that, but noticed it was missing yesterday. it will be added in tomorrow... thanks for reminding me...

I haven't heard back from anybody, so i'm assuming the edit buttons are working fine now? a confirmation would be great... thanks...

Search Button?

A search button would be helpful. Maybe I'm not seeing it.

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The edit buttons have been

The edit buttons have been restored! It took some looking but i finally found the problem... please let me know if anybody is still having any problems with that.

oh yeah, sorry they're not styled or positioned yet, but at least they're up. I'll style them tomorrow...

thanks for pointing that

thanks for pointing that out... i'm looking into it now...

Help

I dont seem to see an edit or delete button for content i've posted. I make mistakes...i know, hard to imagine. How am I able to fix them?

Hmm...it seems that my

Hmm...it seems that my comment was moderated, but other spam from the past 24 hours hasn't been...
So I'll ask it again: was the approach to the re-desing/re-build, "Change it, and then find out what people want?" Was there any polling of members before the work began? Any user testing during the process?

Suggestions

DROP THE LOGO (for a broader, less comic-like appeal)

INVERT THE COLORS (for easier reading)

MORE IMAGES (i.e. Famous People) on the front page, perhaps to the sides of the text at center

Oh, and bring back the CATEGORIES at the bottom of the page, please.

Thank you.

~Rell www.myspace.com/559rell www.myspace.com/trellthareallamane (music production)

I agree. the default drupal

I agree. the default drupal events calendar is pretty horrible. We've also noticed how annoying repeating events are, because it looks like there are some events that just repeat forever... calendar spam... stay tuned because a complete overhaul of the calendar is fairly near the top of our to do list.

I think it would be great if

I think it would be great if multiple posts in the events section would be deleted. There is one titled Healthy air living contest, that is posted close to 20 times in a row. It seems like a lot of events are posted multiple times like that. I find that rather annoying.
I have also noticed that when looking at the recent posts, where it shows the number of replies. It is not loading up properly. It is showing only part of the text.

I think the site would look

I think the site would look better centered

- The site is designed for

- The site is designed for 800x600 screen res and it's fixed width. C'mon it's not 1999. Either give us fluid width or make it wider.

- On single pages the content is scrunched into a 420px wide box! You know how annoying it is to read stuff on here now? Your two sidebar columns do not contain a huge amount of content. You should combine them into one on the single pages and widen this content area.

- Comments are displayed in reverse chronological order, with the newest at the top. This is not the way people are used to reading comments. The newest should be at the bottom.

- Where are the forums? Where are the google maps?

- Where's the content? When you're on a single page all you have is the "Recent Posts" widget in the sidebar. No other way for us to view content. Where are the categories/sections that used to be in the top navigation?

- Links page is blank. http://www.fresnofamous.com/links

- "Soup Grapes," in the top nav, links to Jarah's old blog with outdated posts from 2007.

- Let me know if you need help with Drupal at all.

suggestions

Like the user above, I get the sense that nothing of substance has changed--just the appearance (colors, logos, etc.) The same tired photos are there, the same tired text, etc. It's like all you did was change your CSS script and hired someone to draw cool anti-MAN some fists. Your trivia under the header is from some robot. I guess I was hoping for more... there there.

Suggestions:
When I go to a site like this, I would like to see a running list of recent comments and posts in one place.

I'd like to see locally, user-produced video in one place.

In another place, I'd like an organized list, or Tags if you must,(not clutter boxes) linking to things like: Food, Bands, Nightlife, Music, Art.

User generated articles with structure--top-10 lists, or some user edited wikis. I mean, I'm no techie or futurist, but it looks like nothing from the past year has been adopted except for twitter, and that's been in the past few weeks.

I'll withhold final judgment until the really cool new features arrive... but there are a lot of free tools out there for non-techs. How about a user-driven calendar? Also, I must have missed this forum, but were we ever asked what we wanted in a redesign before the black on black on gray was chosen? And why does this site only have two people? that's just crap. The girls at Fresnocentric has more people than that.

You can be so much better than this Famous! I just want what's best for the Famous community and the Famous potential. I'm so excited about it sometimes. Let's get with 2007 before the year ends, please.

ok, now the posts by

ok, now the posts by famouswhitewater for his sour grapes blog will not appear under the "recent blogs" section on the front page. they will only appear under the sour grapes section, so they will not bump any other user's recently create blogs.