Woodman Forum - chat with pierre woodman

Hi,

I've noticed that updates seem to sneak into days that have already passed. In other words, there may be an update for Sunday with 2 entries. Then, on Wednesday, I'll note that a photoset was added to the Sunday update. This may be due to the updates being organized by file creation date or last modified date. Alternatively, they may be added manually for some reason I'm not aware of. In any case, it's not a big deal but I find that I sometimes overlook updates since they appear in days that I thought I'd already looked at.

As a secondary issue. I sometimes find that I'm redirected to the warning page even after having logged in. Not a big deal but something you may want to pass on to your webmaster as a usability issue.

While I'm at it...

The navigation header when on the forum is different than on any other section. Ideally the navigation would be consistent across the site.

I noticed parts of the site load slowly and more often than I would expect. I took a look at some of the configuration and it looks like you could save some bandwidth by adding expires headers, gzip-ing components, and compressing javascript and css. I bet you could compress many of your images as well with software like Fireworks. Also, if bandwidth is an issue for you, you might consider using a CDN (content delivery network). It shouldn't be much work for your webmaster to address this and it should make for faster page loads and less money spent on bandwidth.

thank you for your nice intention !
It's me who put sometime some material on anti-dating days because it was supposed to be there at this time. Maybe it does not seems "intelligent" but it's a way to restructured the pass when I was not able to do all as supposed to be !!!
For the rest, I did not catch all right because it's not my business but my webmasters will look what you have written...

PW

I see, you had scheduled those updates to go on those days so, even if they were late, you put them there. That makes sense. I might suggest you put an entry for everything you intend to put on a day even if the content isn't there yet... just say "forthcoming". That way users know to come back to that day if they're interested in that content.

As for site issues in general, is that the type of thing you want on your forums or would you prefer direct contact with you or your webmaster? For instance, the icons for "FAQ", "Members", and "Logout" were designed for a white background instead of black and look odd...

As I said, I'm not a webmaster, already the work I do and what I've learned since two years is a lot for me.
The site is as it is, step by step lot of parts will become better but can't make all change as fast as I want...

PW

Just trying to help

I could probably provide fixes to some of your issues if you want. Just contact me directly.

Thank you

PW

A quick note that the forum search tool seems to be mis-configured. I tried to do a search on "divinity" and got the following error:

'The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: divinity.'

Given the size of the index, the only words that should raise flags like that should be extremely common words like "a", "the", "and", etc.