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# 50  
Old 07-19-2018
Update:

I am about done with this phase and I'm feeling good about the results of what has been accomplished so far.

There is still a long long way to go to modernize this site and to get rid of most of the table tags, make the site more responsive across devices and clean up the legacy code in general.

I was going to change the login to use jQuery and AJAX, but because there are so many PHP permissions for every step of the process that is dependent on if a user is logged in or not, and this requires all the PHP pages to refresh, I'm removing this small task off the current TODO list.

Now, I need to think what pages, tables and other things I will tackle in the next phase.

So far so good.

Thanks for all the feedback. I really appreciate it and I could not do this "site upgrading" job without all of your feedback and help, watching the site every step and giving me feedback when things look odd and I have not corrected it within a few seconds or even minutes.

I'm pretty confident in my CSS and Javascript / jQuery skills these days, and I guess I should apologize for being busy on my "cyberspace situational awareness" game-engine project for two years and not modernizing the site years before. I wish there were two or three of me, but one is more than enough to drive people crazy, LOL.

I am sorry if I have let you down in not modernizing this site earlier. Actually, it's much easier to work on this site (CSS, JS, jQuery, and HTML) versus programming a parallel, multithreaded cybersecurity visualization app using C# and the Unity 3D game engine; so updating the site is not technically difficult, but it does require a lot of time on screen and keyboard.

Thanks again for all your patience with me.

I'M BACK Smilie
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# 51  
Old 07-19-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
Neo,
something along these lines - others may chime in:

Code:
Home UserCP ForumRules FAQ Man Search Today'sPosts NewTopic QuickLinks LogOut

V.


I moved the "Forum Rules" and the "FAQ" and the "Members" (list) to the "Quick Links" menu and off the main center navbar and changed the order of the center navbar to:


Code:
Home   Man   Search   User CP  New Topics  Today's  Posts Quick Links  Log Out

Will fix the spacing later.
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# 52  
Old 07-19-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by Neo
Hey Vlad,

I removed a lot of the extra padding from that the user header in postbit.

We could make this space use even less real estate if we moved some of the info in the right side user info in each post to a drop down menu or pop-up panel:

For example, here his the current info:

Code:
Join Date: Jul 2012
Last Activity: 18 July 2018, 4:17 PM EDT
Location: Aachen, Germany
Posts: 13,073
Thanks: 449
Thanked 4,013 Times in 3,690 Posts

Maybe make this?

Code:
User Info

.. and then put the info in a drop down table like in the center menu navbar?
Heya,
this is looking very good and compact.
I like the idea of the drop-down table from a single item click - makes the user header even more thinner. Let's see how it looks when you get the time.
Thanks for all the effort!
Me.

------ Post updated at 10:09 AM ------

Hey Neo,
if/when you get some cycles, you might want to look at the headers of the Who's Online page - could probably be compacted as well.
Thanks
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# 53  
Old 07-19-2018
Hi neo...
I think you asked for a screen video of what I was talking about. I am on limited internet access ATM due to a holiday/vacation. Do you still want me to do one when I arrive home next week?
# 54  
Old 07-19-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by wisecracker
Hi neo...
I think you asked for a screen video of what I was talking about. I am on limited internet access ATM due to a holiday/vacation. Do you still want me to do one when I arrive home next week?
No hurry, I'm done for now with the navbar, so take your time!

Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
Heya,
this is looking very good and compact.
I like the idea of the drop-down table from a single item click - makes the user header even more thinner. Let's see how it looks when you get the time.
Thanks for all the effort!
Me.

------ Post updated at 10:09 AM ------

Hey Neo,
if/when you get some cycles, you might want to look at the headers of the Who's Online page - could probably be compacted as well.
Thanks
OK.

The postbit saga continues here (done with navbar for the time being... )
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