Enjoy!
Be patient with any bugs, they will be fixed. If you find any let me know in the comments. I apologize for the delay in getting this done, and all the downtime over this weekend, but it’s finally here and I want to thank the Flopping Aces community for all the support, and donations, to make the new site possible.
PS – Check out the “expand this post” button to read the whole post without having to click on the “continue reading” link. Pretty cool. Plus, the Most Wanted section is where I will be placing links to stories that might interest you.
Terrific, an outstanding job Curt! Love the categories in the header and Active Discussions is much easier on the old eyes. Well worth the wait, thank you so much, it’s like moving into a new house, off to snoop some more!
Thanks Missy….lots of new stuff to get used to for myself and everyone else. Don’t forget to choose an avatar from gravatar.com to get your own.
OK, did that, now it looks like I my e-mail with an avatar, now what do I do?
I like the new look here……
Love it. Looks great, although I do miss the Wild Wild West theme a little bit. Whenever I came here I always started humming the theme song.
ooohhh, i likey!
Well done.
How do you log in?
Different look to FA now. Kinda like going to a Dealership and looking at a new Truck that has more bells and whistles than the older models. Things were moved around a bit and the Owners Manual is 99 pages thicker than Obama’s last 3 Bills he signed without readin…
New look is pleasing to the eye though…
CURT, I’m happy that you must be relieve now, the most challenging is done,
and you can relax a bit more
Great job Curt! Now lets keep this great site going strong.
Curt . . . is there additional features left to unveil? What about a profile section . . . I would like very much to post a general profile about ME, lol. Including a profile picture and other stuff that makes me who I’s am. LOL
What about uploading a photo to add perspective to our comments . . . that seems to be done by links . . . but is there a faq coming soon too?
For now go to http://www.floppingaces.net/wp-login.php until I get a button up there
Yes, I will be adding those features….patience grasshopper. Got a whole list of things to get done on here. A faq would be a good idea, adding that to the list.
CURT please dont let the old FA die, we can go and talk to it sometimes,
no death pannels for the conservatives
Curt…Could you add some New Car Smell?
Please?
Ok. Now how do I add an Avatar? Did I pronounce that Right?
I have developed many web sites over the years and know that putting a top notch site together is no easy feat. It take a lot of time and energy. I appreciate your time and effort to provide us with a great looking site. Thanks
OLD TROOPER 2, HI, IT’S gravatar.com
car smell irk irk
Looks great, Curt!
Congratulations.
very nice!
OK, I’m a troglodyte when it comes to computers.
So, you used to have a little box I could click to make a link, a quote, bold words or italics and a few other things.
How does a person like me get those HTML tags and attributes into action?
Experiment.
And how do I edit my mistakes????
You should be able to click the (edit) button at the bottom of your posts if you’re a registered member
AXEL, WHERE IS THAT BUTTON?
I used to be ”logged in,” but I don’t know how to even do that on the new page.
What am I missing?
hmm..
OK, I got logged in.
So, will the ”edit” thing-y appear?
Oh, and I figured out how to bold a word.
Now another experiment.
http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=136401&catid=2
If you’ve previously registered an account, you can login here: http://www.floppingaces.net/wp-login.php
As soon as you login, you will be able to edit comments associated with your email address.
You cannot edit comments without being logged in
Its all a bit confusing at the moment. I’m working on simplifying the process of logging in and registering for everyone here
OK, neither one (title or link) worked.
Hints?
I mean MORE hints.
LOL
The HTML tags are a bit cumbersome also. I’ll see if I can include a visual editor for comment creation.
Make sure you are logged in:
http://www.floppingaces.net/wp-login.php
TROUBLE WITH REGISTERING
What kind of trouble you having Bees? Does it give you a error message?
OK. Cool…but no EDIT Button…
Maybe I’m expecting too much…
Axel…I can post comments like I am Logged in but No Edit. Am I missing something here?
If you’re logged in you should see (Edit) on the lower right hand corner of your comment beside the date and time, but this is only available after you already published your comment. Axel will be working on getting editor buttons up for everyone to use as they write new comments.
If you haven’t already figured it out, Axel is the designer and coder of the new site. We’ve been working together for 6+ months to unveil this and he will be addressing all your concerns, and coming up with easier ways of doing things for the readers. So if you got a suggestion or question please put a comment in here and we’ll try to address it.
Hmm, we’ll if you are certain you are logged in and its still not appearing then there must be something wrong.
I’ll do some extensive testing tonight to make sure its working for all active “logged in users”.
CURT, this will tell me if I’m registered or not with the edit button
no edit button, so I will try again, as I change the password too complicated and try another one of my choice but maybe I did not finish the operation,
thanh’s, I might get back to you or start CRYING OUT LOUD
still not sure of what came up too dumb most likely
no log out
axel can we see if the others have the button?
The site looks great, Curt! I recently redid mine and the memory of how much work it is is still fresh. Keep up the good work!
Curt: I like it! Good Job!
Looks great. Nice job Curt and Axel. I don’t know if my gravatar will show up. Axel not sure myself I see the edit button. Might just be me as I run Firefox and have a lot of things blocked. Mostly ads and flash although on FA it might be OK’d.
For all those who can’t find the edit button take a look at this picture
The arrow is where the edit button is. Axel will be working on a editor to use when you write a new comment.
Me too, it says I’m logged in but I don’t see an edit button.
Axel must not be sleeping these days either, how many all nighters have you two been through with this big project?
Thanks so much!!!
I can see (Edit) on your post, but not on any of mine.
I know I am logged in.
I think my email is correct.
Yup.
Now for a blockquote experiment.
Let me try that blockquote thing=-y again….it looked close.
Whoo hoo! Looks fantastic, guys!
http://www.thepiratescove.us
I llllllllllike it.
The Site looks great!! Well done, looking forward to following you in 2011!
The edit feature works fantastic!
OK, which is the link shortcut?
AHA!
Somehow I had been logged in with my old e-mail!
NOW I can edit!
I would be nice to include time/date stamps on threads.
Axel…
My hat is off to you sir.
You’ve done a great job getting the new site put together for all of us.
We’re just going to have to play with, and tinker around with, all of the new knobs, dials, and switches to see just what happens.
I will say that I miss the button style HTML controls from the old site. Don’t know what is in the works for the future in that regard but it would be great to have those again.
Off to experiment a little now.
me again trying for the edit button
NAN where did you see the edit button ?
on which comment, I was trying to see what you saw and where,
do I make sense? after 5 hrs of power outage.on my side where another snow storm is
saluting the NEW MOON, BYE
OH NAN LOOK ,MY EDIT BUTTON IS HERE, THANK YOU AXEL
and he look nicer than before, here’s another one
Glad to see you found it Bees.
Ooooh, PURTY! I did have a fondness for the old Wild Wild West theme, but I really do appreciate the clean, updated new look. Nice work.
Curt & Axel,
Well done redesign guys, Congratulations, . . . nice, clean look and flow, . . . the hard work has proven worthwhile.
You’ve no doubt made it easier to add new touches and features, in the process. Looking forward to enjoying it. Thank you for the effort and results.
AYE CHIHUAHUA where is your edit button, amI the favorite of AXEL to have the only edit button? here one more for the new FA
The edit buttons will appear for anyone who is logged in.
Its a temporary fix Curt made with a plugin. I’ll be debugging the actual theme to see if I can get it working as designed.
Thanks!
No, everyone who is signed in as a user should have their own edit function.
I’ve been looking around trying to find the place where I can choose and assign an avatar…
no luck finding it yet though…
can anyone point me in the right direction?
Aye,
Drop over here: http://en.gravatar.com/site/signup/
Sign up and create your gravatar. Just remember for it to be seen here you have to assign/use the same email addy you used here at FA to your gravitar pic.
Of course if you are already signed up just login, create the email used here and assign a picture to it, clear your browser cache and WaLa after a bit it will show up with your comments.
The only down side, I had to spend 30 minutes trying to figure out my old gravatar/wordpress login
Looks nice Curt.
Looks good
me likey
2 thumbs up from me
Congratulations on a great new look, Curt! I’ll miss the Wild Wild West theme (I think I first suggested it
), but this is a refreshing change. All the hard work you and Axel have put into this really shows through.
Hmm…my old gravatar is no longer working…
*slaps forehead*
Oh, look….I typed too soon!
Hey Curt,
For lengthy debates, is the current reply format really the best option? On the old format, I liked how each reply was numbered and could be referenced, blockquoting who/what you’re addressing, with new comments found at the very bottom. With the reply appearing directly under the person you want to address, one could easily miss new comments, buried in mid-comment-stream.
Also, if it gets to be a lengthy back-and-forth reply, the reply box will get more narrow…and more narrow…and more narrow…won’t it?
You have a point Word. Especially since the lengthy debates that happen at FA would result in the box getting way too narrow. Axel is checking this post out and I’ve emailed him about maybe changing that around. What does anyone else think?
Would it be possible to have a “quote” option, like on some message boards, that automatically blockquotes the entire text of the comment you’re replying to; and with your reply still appearing at the very bottom of all the previous comments?
For a debate format, it just seems less confusing to me if any new replies, regardless of who is specifically being addressed, appears stacked in the order in which they are first published, with most recent comments at the bottom.
With the current format, what does it look like should several commenters hit reply to the same single comment? What arrangement order happens then?
Hmm…odd. Are you and Axel tinkering around right now? I could have sworn I hit the reply button to your comment on my comment…but now the “reply” option has disappeared for any comments that are already replies. So no “replies to replies”? Just to the original comment? In which case the blocks don’t get any more narrow, looks like…
…unless you guys are tinkering right now and it’s all fluid and metamorphisizing by the second.
Actually, if this is the format, then maybe it will be less confusing. The one problem being, new comments will still get buried and possibly be missed by not appearing chronologically in order.
I tinkered around and reduced the threaded replies from 5 to 2 so it won’t get any narrower then the first reply. He will put in a permalink feature soon and a text editor also for quoting and all that. I can also turn off threaded altogether…I’ll wait on that for a bit to see how everyone likes this format first.
Congratulation on your new design! Not that there was anything wrong with the previous one; I love them both!
Curt, the new look is, in the words of Billy Crystal – Mahvelous!
Curt & Wordsmith,
“What does anyone else think?”
My vote would be for the “numbered” comment layout as you previously had it, given some of the extensive back and forth that often occurs on FA.
CURT, hi, are you trying to give me a secret code, I got
test and test test, and test df df, they came in okay
they all self destroyed after I READ IT, BYE
That was meant for B-Rob, it just doesn’t make any sense to those of us without the “specal aluminim foil hat….”
I also miss the numbered posts. Which would be especially helpful since we no longer have an automatic “reply to” link when responding to a comment specifically.
Also, Axel.. what’s up with the “expend this post” button? My visual doesn’t expand at all, and I did occasionally get a flash vision of the expansion before it collapsed again.
But it’s kinda fun, this debugging stuff… yeah, seriously. LOL
Added: Whoa! My avatar disappeared too!
cbr, hi, I did gravatar, and I dont see any image beside my name, bye
I think I just found a bug. When I use the “em” “/em” tags, the italicized word displays (in Firefox) in a smaller font, and at the right margin, not within the body of the text.
Mata, is this your missing avatar?
Ya mean that big “x” in the box that’s a photo, Missy? LOL Well, lately around here, that’s probably an accurate guess…. unless you want to change the “x” for a “0″.
Hmmm, I must have left my avatar in my other trousers. ..
It disappeared too, I clicked on it after I posted it and it worked, I’ll go get it for you:
http://www.michellesmirror.com/2011/01/git-yer-motor-runnin.html
And you can click it to enlarge for full effect. >wink<
OK, Missy…….
That put the Fear of God into me.
I will go forth, Sin no more and carry my avatar in my shoulder holster at all times!
And a small bag of Wolfbane around my neck too!
3:18 AM here in Brussels, 30F and Freezing Rain predicted for tomorrow. I may skip my morning run.
anyone can put a bee on my frame
Ok. Got avatar. Got a Cuban Cigar and an airline bottle of Grand Marnier.
Now I need an MRE and a cup of coffee without chickory in the blend.
Euro Coffee…Eyuch!
Ms Bees, you have to pick one!
OLD TROOPER 2, EASY FOR YOU TO SAY, I was there , how do you pick one,
when no images are showing there, I want a beeavatar nothing else
Bees….just go to gravatar.com, sign up with the same email you use to log into FA, then upload a picture you would like to use as a gravatar…that’s it.
Curt, I sent her a suitable image. She is just going through the process now. I expect to see Ms Bees “Bee” any minute now. She has a new laptop that she is fighting as well. New Gear.
I’m sure she’ll get it in no time.
Also, I was able to get the reply function back…enjoy. The numbered comments will be appearing soon.
Excellent! Nothing but the best here at FA! Thanks!
I WENT THEY HAVE MY NAME BUT THEY WANT THE NAME OF THE BEE IMAGE AND ALL I HAD WAS THE SERIES OF NUMBERS ,I AM TIRED , WILL TRY AGAIN TOMORROW
Gravatar test…. altho I must say, the one Missy suggested was really cool!
ah ha… there it is!
@Old Trooper 2: … need more and bigger Grand Marnier, if you please. LOL
Mata
I picked up some Grand Marnier Centenaire. It’s fabulous.
Well, that worked.
CURT, hi, thank you for overestimating my ability on computer
as you are a WIZARD looking down on a bee,
I’m getting some help from gravatar own people,
they are super nice with people in trouble
bye
Curt,
I know that I am old, blind and pretty dumb, but can you add a “reply” to each message. Sometimes on the longer threads it can be difficult to find the right “reply” button? I think that I have replied to the wrong post a few times now….
Cheers
Rob
@DrJohn: Yup Doc. It smooths out the bumps from a rough day and warms the bones from the inside at the end of a Winter Day.
Rob in K aty, hi, it’s okay you can use mine in the mean time,
best to you for 2011
If the ”gravitar” folks don’t like my name and demand a new one will that mean my name here will also change?
That is what is stopping me from trying to get a picture.
DrJohn, hi, too bad you couldn’t leave it for another century,
IT would have tasted better then, when AMERICA is healed
best to you, and don’t shake the bottle,
you’r not allowed to bring it on the plane either
have a good 2011
Wait, where those there a minute ago….no way?
Rob in Katy, don’t worry, it’s not your eyes but you must have celebrate the NEW YEAR
TOO MUCH, and this happen to all of us, just check the comments on this POST,
EVEN THE AUTHOR IS RECUPERATING,
BYE
Nan G no , I had to give a name difrent for them to, after you gave your FA name,
so they keep the other one on your file and also this fa name is in another box,
IF this make sense, I had to figure that one, after a long time
@Rob in Katy: There already is a reply button up, and the numbers have been added. You’re talking about comments right or are you talking about posts?
@Nan G: Gravatar from gravatar.com follow you via your email address. The address is made into a hashed value, which then follows you around. Has nothing to do with your name.
Curt,
I am really sorry, I didn’t see those “Reply” things there last night. I could have sworn that there was only the one on the main post? As many will attest, I am an idiot.
@Rob in Katy:
The tweaks are an ever-moving, ever-elusive sort of thing.
What was once over there ===>
is now over there < ===
What was once missing….has now reappeared.
It’s sort of fun spotting the changes. I am so glad that we got the “Reply” button and post numbers back. I was seriously missing those things.
Also glad the nested replies have gone away as well.
FA is famous for epic thread conversations and all that indenting and tucked away responses was messing with my intellect.
arent we all humbled by the new FA?
now could it be that it was included in the project to test our brain power
like a mind probe, wittin the FA, WE’LL NEVER KNOW,
THAT IS A SECRET ,I became suspicious when I start to see the word “testing”
AYE CHIHUAHUA, NOW THAT IS CONFUSING,
I am anxious to see if B-Rob, will call you little dog or brain salt
bye
Aye…the New Fa is coming along keenly. I am impressed. No better place to hang my hat than here due to the generosity of Curt & expertise of Axel.
I am building a Reader Post today. I need to know how to post images and will willingly accept any Mentoring that can be provided.
I have no Duty for the next three days so my Beret is off and my Thinking Cap is on. My Stetson is waiting back home on my top shelf…
Wow! An OT reader post! I’m excited!
If you want some help, OT, just send off an email off forum.
@Rob in Katy: No need to apologize, it wasn’t there until late yesterday. Same with the numbers. The consensus was they wanted those things back so Axel put em’ in. Just as Aye said, there will be more coming. Axel is working on a patch as we speak with a lot of stuff people have asked for.
@Old Trooper 2: @ILOVEBEESWARZONE:
Actually, it was the generosity of the readers who sent in those donations. It wasn’t cheap to get this done, and yeah…I spent a lot of time on it but because of you all, none of it was an out of pocket expense for myself. Axel has worked real hard on this and the man knows what he is doing. Not only did he design the site, he coded it also. Wouldn’t hesitate to recommend him for any kind of project any reader needs done.
CURT, YOUR NOT DONE SPENDING YET, WE’LL HAVE TO CHIP IN A BIT LONGER, BECAUSE WE’R STILL ASKING FOR MORE,
WHERE DID THAT PINK BOTTLE GO,ALONG WITH PAYPAL, JUST WHEN I WAS GETTING TO KNOW HOW IT WORK,
@MataHarley: Can and will do.
Jana told me to do one. Since she had another “Home Alone Dammit, Duty Honor Country Christmas” without me, I owe it to her. Her actual quote by the way.
It may be time for me to see how high I can leave a mark on the FA wall with my awkward writing skills.
I am more impressive in Person but I am building a missive to do for a Reader Post. Cold and Freezing Drizzle out so I can put my Thinking Cap on.
Grand Marnier in quantity at the house. Not here. However Cuban cigars are available but no Cubano Sandwiches…
My Thanks to Curt and Axel.!
. . . Numbers, Dates, & “Reply” on comments, . . . wow, looks great. Well done.
I just wanted to thank you for that strip along the bottom.
To be able to either go to the top of the page or go to the home page after reading the most recent comment without first having to scroll up is a treat.
Might seem small to some, but I greatly appreciate it.
testing for my bee to show
ah she is beautifull,thank you gravatar
I love everything about the new design, except I miss the HTML buttons when posting. The blockquote and bold buttons were very handy.
Beezy, your avatar was worth waiting for, a lovely little bee, love it!
MISSY, HI thank you I like it too, but I must say that I had lots of help and advices
from you all and GRAVATAR help graciously to get me there and here,
when I ask for their support.
bye
Nan G, hi, if you want to choose an image try google art and dont forget to note the long url,
and go back to gravatar and click on the blue linesaying to click there if you want to choose your image and the other page will open for you to type the email of google url [a long one]
that if they have your name on their file, good luck or ask for support, at their support email and they will
answer give it a couple of day, best to you
Bees, that avatar is just “the bees’ knees”, if you don’t mind my saying so. Almost as dang cute as you, girl! LOL
Is that the one Old Trooper sent you? If so, he chose well.
MATA, thank you it’s close to the one OT SENT, BUT when I arrive at GRAVATAR, after
copying on a paper 2 lines of the GOOGLE ART LINK , and type it laboriously slwly, they gave me that one,
it was the first on the link I had check before, so I TOOK IT AS IT was their only choice given to me
I liked it also SO I check it and that was it,I came to fa and there she was all over,
bye
JULY 30 2011, It was fun coming back here, to check all the smart FA people get puzzle by little details,
I was the worse one to yes the dummer one,
by checking the now post and comments, we did all improve our intellect,
OLD TROOPER WHERE IS YOUR POST,? I COULDN’T FIND IT. AND i CANNOT FIND YOU EITHER.
MAYBE IF YOU STILL CARRY YOUR GRAVATAR ON YOUR SHOULDER !!!
WE WILL EVENTUALY FIND YOU, AND SEND YOU BACK HOME .
THANK YOU CURT FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO YOUR GROWING UP TEENAGE FA,
THANK YOU AXEL FOR THE GOOD EXPERTISE WORK