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Beta 6 Released!
Friday, February 17th, 2006Well, it’s finally out there. I’m still not happy with where Beta 6 is when it comes to compatability and features. We are going to start working on a more web standard version of the template with just 2 columns. For now this will help everyone out who wants to get away from the digg layout. There will still be a lot of bugs with this release, after all we are in Beta release still, but they will soon be resolved with yet another template release. I still have to fix the problem form position, enable the magnifying glass image and add the negative vote functionality.
I am also introducing a new pligg.com homepage design. The root page no longer shows Pligg’s demo, instead we feature a nice welcome page with some handy links and news. It will show the latest 3 blog posts, last 3 bug reports, and last 3 forum replies. This will help keep users up to date with the latest information. The main page also links to a FAQ and License page. I will update the FAQ in the future to have tutorials and such.
Perhaps this will be the day?!?!
Friday, February 17th, 2006Man am I getting annoyed of myself. I know I’ve been putting this off longer and longer, but the guys in the IRC room have been some great beta testers. I also have to thank everyone who has left a comment to report bugs. We have most everything working (including sneak) and we are now working on fine tuning the CSS and double-checking as many pages as we can for errors in IE and Firefox. I have to thank podigle for his lending a hand in fixing and checking the template CSS. I am handing out copies of Beta 6 in IRC for testing purposes, but there are still a few areas that need to be finished. I handed Podigle an archive of the files tonight for him to check over and tomorrow morning I plan to wake up, ask AshDigg a few questions, and finally finish this thing assuming that nothing else comes up. I’ve been sleep deprived the past few days, so I look forward to getting a decent amount of sleep tonight and starting the day rejuvinated and ready to Pligg.
So CLOSE!
Thursday, February 16th, 2006I spent a huge amount of time working on the template for Beta 6 today. It turned out that the other author converting it into tables wasn’t such a great idea so I decided to personally finish this wretched thing. I’m at the point where I can no longer tell if it looks good or not because I have been staring at it for so long and it’s lost its freshness. The final design is amazingly close to what I wanted, even better in many ways. This was my first time trying to write my own CSS code and I’m amazed that I was able to pull this off. The code isn’t the neatest or most streamlined out there, but it gets the job done.
I am very glad to say that the template is VERY near finished. I have tested several of the pages in IE and they all come out well. There are some minor differences between the Firefox and IE renders of the site, but nothing bad. Opera doesn’t like the placement of the search bar last time I checked, but I’m sure it’s something that can be fixed by someone who knows some CSS. The release should come by this evening, if I’m able to keep awake. I have been lacking sleep lately and it’s getting tough to keep up and work on Pligg. Right now all that is left to be done are some of the secondary pages, things like register and profile pages. I got about two thirds of the way through with the secondary pages tonight, they usually don’t take long at all to edit. This evening I will finish doing the secondary pages and testing some of the pages for bugs. The good news is that the overdue release will finally come to the end in the next 24 hours… I promise. If it comes down to me releasign it with a couple small bugs left over I will, I’ll just tack the words “preview release” onto it. But hopefully that won’t happen because it looks like it’s pretty clean as is. I definitely think that I could spend another week polishing parts of the template, but I won’t torture everyone with that, it can always come as a template download.
Here’s a link to the test server (http://www.scadart.com). Check it out and let me know what you think of the design. If you have any suggestions let me know and we’ll try to address them in one of the next releases. There will be bugs the deeper you dig into the site, so don’t freak out. I just haven’t gotten around to editing some of the secondary pages yet. I also have had a problem with getting the footer placed in the right spot consistantly.
Pligg Beta 6 PR Green
Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
I have made some changes to the template in response to some of the comments and to add a new “sneak” icon for the DiggSpy-like feature that will be included with Beta 6. The coloring is still not set as is, it’s lighter than I expected. For some reason Photoshop’s colors appear lighter when you export them. Otherwise, I am very happy with the layout of everything and I feel that it’s time to start cranking out some CSS until I get a bloody nose. If anyone wants to join me on the CSS adventure let me know and I’ll send you an advanced copy of Beta 6 along with the photoshop version of Beta 6 and the Pligg Icon Pack.
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