[Clipart] stuff done today

[Oleg Koptev]

2010/8/5 Nathan Eady <eady at galion.lib.oh.us>

> "J. Alves" <alvesjmp at gmail.com> writes:
> <snip>
>
> A couple of more serious points now...
> >
> > - what is supposed to go in the "avatar" text box, a URL? Should it
> > show a file open control?
>
> Assuming we don't mind allowing users to upload any random avatar they
> want, a file open control seems like the most obvious choice here.
> There should probably be a file size limit and/or a limit on the
> dimensions.
>
> Another option would be to provide a collection of avatars and let
> users select one of them.  I actually did this at one point (for a
> public library discussion forum, which is no longer really in use),
> using mostly images from the OCAL for the avatars.  The interface was
> just basically "Here are rows and columns of avatars, click the one
> you want."  Let's see, I think the directory full of avatars is still
> sitting here:
> http://cgi.galion.lib.oh.us/forum/userimg/
> (There are two or three of those that are not public domain; it
> should be obvious which ones.)
>
> However, I think we have been allowing the upload of arbitrary profile
> images in the past, and to my knowledge it has not been a major
> problem.  (If it becomes one, we could always give librarians the
> ability to override it for a certain user.)
>
>
User avatars are cool. It add more 'personality' in personal info. IMO.


>  > - the sex could be one of three (or four?) choices: male, female,
> > prefer not to say, other (?)
>
> The default should be just blank or "--" (or it could be spelled out
> "not specified", whatever), and then the only other options really
> needed are male and female, IMO.  Anyone who feels neither of those
> applies can just leave it blank/unspecified and explain the details on
> their homepage.
>

Agreed. I didn't tell enough. Of course by default sex should be empty :)


> >> It doesn't work as it does. It doesn't save all info.
>
> That was my experience as well.  It appears to successfully save the
> change into the page, but if you load the page again it's back to the
> former value.
>

Yes. Exactly. Would be great if it will save infos permanently :)


>
> >> Country could have standardized droplist, as we have on every
> >> website :)
>
> I don't know, that's always kind of annoyed me on most sites: the list
> is so long, it's *significantly* faster to just type the name of your
> country in a text box.  (Yes, I know the old "type the first letter to
> autoscroll to that part of the list" trick, but you still have to
> scroll through half the countries that start with U.)  Some sites
> attempt to fix this by putting certain popular countries at the top of
> the list, but that has its own raft of problems.
>

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.


>
> >> Sex have only two possible values (forgive me, androgynes!), so it
> >> need to have only two radiobutton, instead of textbox.
>
> There probably does need to be the option to not specify it, so a
> dropdown box seems reasonable IMO.
>

dropdown list or radiobuttons - not real issue.

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.


>
> --
> Nathan Eady
> Galion Public Library
>
>
-- 
*C уважением, Коптев Олег
With respect, Oleg Koptev*
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