Question If those of you logged in tonight would please?

If those of you logged in tonight would putter around with the new menu setup a bit and make sure you still have access to everything you had before and that nothing pops out at you as strange, broken or otherwise unaesthetic... I think I've managed to get a working menu system in place that doesn't need drop down menus or the side bar. Which should make some of the mobile users happy.

Can't default to the forums page itself without causing other problems... I tried. I could point it at something else other than the statistics panel, I just don't 'HAVE' something else to point it at right now.

The Author 'button' / tab is only visible to people with the ability to create stories... so its not going to be misconstrued as anything else by anyone who isn't an author. Just like none of you can see the button/tab for Admin options. Supposedly.


I don't really think a trash/delete option is necessary. My reasons:
1. I've already modified the category structure so that the published stories lists (for Library, Fan Fic, 2nd Gen, and Orig Timeline) no longer show the in progress works. So when you go to the Stories menu and look at those sub categories, everything you see there is completed published stories.

2. The "In Progress" and "In Review" categories are divided up between story type, so no one list of those will have a 'lot' of articles in them... unless we have dozens of active authors keeping the pipeline full. Remember, most people will still be working on stories offline... and only putting them into the system to format and then post to review for publication.

3. Once all stories are migrated from the old site, there will rarely be large blocks of stories moving through the system at any given time.

4. If you are working on something that is no longer wanted, simply change the title and delete/replace the text within it. The file doesn't care what story is in it.

5. In the rare instance that something really just needs to be deleted instead of reworked... just PM me to do it.


The idea of a delete in your hands isn't disastrous... but keep in mind that the full extent of the vetting process to giving someone fan fiction author authority is for them to PM me saying they want to post stories.

Profile edit menu loss fixed.

Sir Lee wrote: Well... the only aspect I'm not really thrilled about of the new layout is the enforced hierarchical navigation -- that is, if you want to move to a different "branch" of the structure, you have first to go back to the "trunk", with no "branch-to-branch" jumping. Seems a bit too rigid to me.

Only way to avoid that would be a second menu as someone mentioned above. With a main menu providing the big categories I've currently got on the 'main' menu and with an entirely separate menu selecting the specific pages to use. Unfortunately, this template doesn't support using the modules that way.

I don't really like having to reload the page to change the options on the menu... but I don't know a way to do that that doesn't require overlays or drop downs. So other than building an entirely different front end for mobiles, this is what we've got.


Policy page vs statistics? Hmm.. should be doable. Let's try that.

Malady wrote: So, on the Statistics page, the blue bar at the top should be empty except for the green bust and its dropdown menu?

Correct.

Uh... all the menus have a Home button. If you found one that didn't, you caught it in the middle of a change where I was tweaking something... or something is actually broken. Since its been 15+ hours since the last of the changes, if this 'just' happened, you might want to refresh / clear your cache of the WA site so you're not loading strange disjointed stuff.

BTW though... there's ALWAYS a home option. Clicking on the Crystal Hall banner at the top left will always take you to the front page of the site.

Well, I just worked out a way to handle the two menu thing... so things are changed again. I kinda like how this looks too... bit more streamlined, little more flexibility for not being stuck moving through every part of the tree (though no way to avoid some of that without pull downs or a really large menu list).

Yes, moved the main menu to the upper right, put the sub menu center instead of left... and tweaked the CSS to give them more of a button appearance. I like how it looks... not sure yet about functionality, but its not immediately causing me to grind my teeth, so that's a positive

I don't have any control over where the save deposits you, I don't think.