<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/8/5 Nathan Eady <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eady@galion.lib.oh.us">eady@galion.lib.oh.us</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>"J. Alves" <<a href="mailto:alvesjmp@gmail.com">alvesjmp@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> A couple of more serious points now...<br>
><br>
> - what is supposed to go in the "avatar" text box, a URL? Should it<br>
> show a file open control?<br>
<br>
</div>Assuming we don't mind allowing users to upload any random avatar they<br>
want, a file open control seems like the most obvious choice here.<br>
There should probably be a file size limit and/or a limit on the<br>
dimensions.<br>
<br>
Another option would be to provide a collection of avatars and let<br>
users select one of them. I actually did this at one point (for a<br>
public library discussion forum, which is no longer really in use),<br>
using mostly images from the OCAL for the avatars. The interface was<br>
just basically "Here are rows and columns of avatars, click the one<br>
you want." Let's see, I think the directory full of avatars is still<br>
sitting here:<br>
<a href="http://cgi.galion.lib.oh.us/forum/userimg/" target="_blank">http://cgi.galion.lib.oh.us/forum/userimg/</a><br>
(There are two or three of those that are not public domain; it<br>
should be obvious which ones.)<br>
<br>
However, I think we have been allowing the upload of arbitrary profile<br>
images in the past, and to my knowledge it has not been a major<br>
problem. (If it becomes one, we could always give librarians the<br>
ability to override it for a certain user.)<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br>User avatars are cool. It add more 'personality' in personal info. IMO. <br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">
> - the sex could be one of three (or four?) choices: male, female,<br>
> prefer not to say, other (?)<br>
<br>
</div>The default should be just blank or "--" (or it could be spelled out<br>
"not specified", whatever), and then the only other options really<br>
needed are male and female, IMO. Anyone who feels neither of those<br>
applies can just leave it blank/unspecified and explain the details on<br>
their homepage.<br></blockquote><div><br>Agreed. I didn't tell enough. Of course by default sex should be empty :)<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
>> It doesn't work as it does. It doesn't save all info.<br>
<br>
</div>That was my experience as well. It appears to successfully save the<br>
change into the page, but if you load the page again it's back to the<br>
former value.<br></blockquote><div><br>Yes. Exactly. Would be great if it will save infos permanently :)<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
>> Country could have standardized droplist, as we have on every<br>
>> website :)<br>
<br>
</div>I don't know, that's always kind of annoyed me on most sites: the list<br>
is so long, it's *significantly* faster to just type the name of your<br>
country in a text box. (Yes, I know the old "type the first letter to<br>
autoscroll to that part of the list" trick, but you still have to<br>
scroll through half the countries that start with U.) Some sites<br>
attempt to fix this by putting certain popular countries at the top of<br>
the list, but that has its own raft of problems.<br></blockquote><div><br>The old trick is just type initial letters (not only first one, but several) and when it will guess your country (it always will, instead you live in Wonderland) - you finish. For most countries 2 or 3 letter is enough.<br>
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<div class="im"><br>
>> Sex have only two possible values (forgive me, androgynes!), so it<br>
>> need to have only two radiobutton, instead of textbox.<br>
<br>
</div>There probably does need to be the option to not specify it, so a<br>
dropdown box seems reasonable IMO.<br></blockquote><div><br>dropdown list or radiobuttons - not real issue.<br><br>Also - when we really need text boxes (Job, Home page, whatever field really needs text box) - please make the phrase 'Click here to edit' disappear when I click there to edit. Erasing of such words always bore.<br>
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Nathan Eady<br>
Galion Public Library<br>
</font><div><div></div><br clear="all"></div></blockquote></div><br>-- <br><i>C уважением, Коптев Олег<br>With respect, Oleg Koptev</i><br><br>