[Clipart] Problems with the website during/after submission

[Jon Phillips]

Felix Rabe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I submitted my first work on openclipart.org today.  There are several 
> issues I find during and after that process:
> 
> - I cannot use the submit field above "News" without getting a big fat 
> red error message.  (Possible solution is to replace that message with a 
> friendlier one telling submitters that you're glad they like to submit 
> their work, but that they are now in a next step where they need to give 
> more details in the elaborate form that follows.)

Yes, this needs to be looked at in more depth. Hmmm...normally we would post 
this to a bugtracker, but we have not that many bug requests we now just use 
this mailing list.

> - Sodipodi's website is not at sodipodi.org, but at sodipodi.com or 
> sodipodi.sf.net.

fixed.

> - "Disable CSS" sends me to a no-CSS, but empty, front page.

Hmmm...it works for me. Maybe you could provide more info. like what page you 
tried this on.

> - The search picture right to the "search" field is on some pages just 
> the text "search".  (Difference obvious between 
> <http://www.openclipart.org/index.php> and 
> <http://www.openclipart.org/cgi-bin/navigate>.)

Yes, this is problem in the script. Jonadab, could you look at this or advise us 
how to best fix this? (In retrospect, this might be causing the disable CSS 
problem).

> - Your "Incoming Clip Art" section does (probably) only work from the 
> front page - you don't use absolute URLs in your "href=" fields of the 
> links.

This is another scripting problem.

> - There are some spelling mistakes in the categories, e.g. "vegitable".

This needs to be changed down in the categories. I'm adding this to the roadmap.

> 
> It looks like there might be some kind of website update in progress, so 
> many glitches might get smoothed out after its completion.  Otherwise, I 
> hope you find my experiences useful when improving your website.

Yes, if you read the news you can see what happened to interrupt our services.

> You're doing a good job.  Keep going!

Thanks, any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I put your 
suggestions/findings on the roadmap for this release.

http://openclipart.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Roadmap


Jon

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