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Any Suggestions? - RF Cafe Forums
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Post subject: Any Suggestions?
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:49 pm
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Joined: Sun Aug 03, 2003
2:02 pm Posts: 653 Location: Erie, PA
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Greetings: I welcome and encourage any suggestions
for how to increase participation by visitors on
the RF Cafe Fourms. The pages receive thousands
of views each month, but not many posts.
Unfortunately, turning off the requirement for logging
in is not an option because the garbage posts by
web bots is too much to keep up with. Anyone?
_________________ - Kirt Blattenberger
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster
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nubbage |
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:36 am
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General |
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Joined: Fri Feb 17, 2006
12:07 pm Posts: 304 Location: London UK
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Kirt Here's 2 suggestions that are worth another
RF Cafe mug (my 1st one was stolen, because they
are so so sought after by international rob-to-order
snatch thieves). 1. How about a search engine?
A few newbies I have referred to this site complain
it is not easy to locate a topic that concerns them
when it was a hot topic for regulars 3 years ago.
Does the RFCafe software team of thousands stretch
to write the needful bytes? 2 How about making
it much simpler to import graphics, or even draw
them as lines, circles and boxes? The image importer
is fine if you use it regularly, but very clunky
to the very occasional user.
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:17 pm
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Greetings nubbage:
Thanks for offering your suggestions.
I am not enough of a PHP codemeister to
implement the kinds of features that you mention.
Both would definitely be an improvement.
What I can do - and have done - in response
to your post is create a page that details how to
add images and hyperlinks in with a post. You have
done so in many of your posts, so this is not new
to you, but it might be useful to a lot of other
people who are not familiar with the tag useage.
There is now a link at the top of the Forum
pages that will take visitors to a page with explanations
of how to implement the features.
_________________ - Kirt Blattenberger
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster
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nubbage |
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:33 am
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Joined: Fri Feb 17, 2006
12:07 pm Posts: 304 Location: London UK
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Hi Kirt Well, I have done a few, but with long
gaps between, I tend to forget how I did it last
time. A search feature should be fairly easy
to implement, although I am no web-meister either.
I kind of conceptualize all of the posts being saved
into a mega-text-file kept on the server, with a
hyperlink created that takes a reader to a basic
search engine that just looks for an ASCII string
of text. But hey, I'm just goofing around mentally
on this one. It really needs a 17 year-old college
student to focus on the problem and kept fed with
pizzas until the problem is cracked. (or fed with
crack until the problem is pizza-d)
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:32 pm
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Greetings nubbage:
There is a built-in Search function that
can be accessed with the link up in the FAQ &
Log In area at the top of the forum page. It accesses
the MySQL database where all the info is stored.
It has worked fairly well in the past. Did you have
something else in mind? Regarding 'The case
of the Purlioned RF Cafe Coffee Mug," I'll be glad
to send you another in appreciation for all your
good posts. Is the mailing address the same as before?
Is 8 oz. still enough coffee per trip to the kitchen
or is the 15 oz. size required now?
_________________ - Kirt Blattenberger
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster
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Spinningspark |
Post subject: Re: Any Suggestions?
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:46 am
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Post subject: Re: Any Suggestions?
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 2:30 pm
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2:02 pm Posts: 653 Location: Erie, PA
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Spinningspark wrote:
Boy, does your site need a search function.
The SQL query only searches the forum, not the
articles and other pages. Google provides a
custom search engine
https://www.google.com/coop/cse/ that you
can add to your site. Here is the page with
the code to paste
https://www.google.com/webelements/customsearch/.
Is that worth a mug?
Greetings Spinningspark: There is
already a Google Search function. The link is at
the top of all the pages just under the RF Cafe
logo. It links to here:
https://www.rfcafe.com/search.htmOn RF
Cafe or any site, if you cannot find a link on the
homepage for Search or anything else, just do a
Ctrl+F (find) and enter what you're looking for
on the page. Doing that for any RF Cafe page will
revel the location of the Search link. Now,
as far as the mug goes... maybe a set of glasses
would be of more use to you.
Thanks for your input.
_________________ - Kirt Blattenberger
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster
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