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Found a small glitch:

student/index.php

If you make a course and it's name contains a character that needs to be escaped (' or \), and add a new assignment, the escaping \ will be visible in the dropdown (e.g Somebody\'s Course.) Then, in the Upcoming Assignments box, there are 2 more slashes (e.g. Somebody\\\'s Course.)

I found some glitches in IE, but jji's ninja'd me.    There is one more, though: The login box cuts some text off. http://i39.tinypic.com/30cucnk.png

Also, your website breaks and glitches quite badly on mobile devices with small screens or smaller browser windows. Maybe you should use more floats? See http://i43.tinypic.com/2jdlu1x.png and http://i44.tinypic.com/5dpbtc.jpg

See, this is getting lots of constructive feedback, which is exactly why I wanted to do this before the summer began.

Also, before it gets buried by this giant post, I added you three, jji7skyline, zeusking19, and funelephant.

Edit: Mac user in Cupertino on an unknown ISP viewed my site... If you work for Apple and are reading this I'd love to make this into an iOS native app if you sent me a Mac and let me into the dev program for free. Or you could like hire me. That would be cool too. I may have raged at Apple before, but you know I didn't really mean it... 

Zeusking19 wrote:

Zeusking19Beta. I cant wait to try this 

And also, you mentioned a while back about open source. when this is released will the source be out? I need this for a project I am working on.

I'll consider it, although there are probably many "hackish" solutions in my code that could probably be done another way more efficiently. Depending on what you need I might keep the styling private but release PHP that actually does stuff?

jji7skyline wrote:

Username: jji7skyline

A few things:

1. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to get to the homepage, maybe you can make the image logo clickable?

2. Add a favicon 

3. Links are hard to see, for example the logout button (already mentioned though).

4. The time budgeting tile on the homepage has text flowing out of the box.
http://i.imgur.com/RSYpJ6C.png

5. I presume the black square on the homepage will soon include a video?

6. Improve IE7+ support, for example the toolbar thing on the top right has both icons looking the same in IE7, and the calendar page has broken formatting. I know it's a pain, I've built IE7 support into my site as well, but a lot of teachers and students will be using Internet Explorer simply because it's the only browser on their school computer.

Other than that, this is an awesome looking site, great formatting and hopefully, good function as well (haven't been able to test because of restrictions).

You can get IE7 on Mac and Linux using PlayonMac or PlayonLinux, a great wrapper for Wine.

1. That's been left out currently because there really isn't that much to do on the homepage, but I guess it won't hurt to throw in a link.

2. I'll work on it. 

3. Yeah, I'll be working on a fix to that.

4. What screen resolution are you on when you encounter that issue? I currently change CSS styles based on screen resolution.

5. I was thinking more of a rotating image box like this, but a video would work too. The black box is currently just there as a placeholder so the style doesn't get messed up.

6. IE7... Yeah, the site will probably need a completely different design for IE7. Rounded corners aren't supported, gradients aren't supported... It's a mess. As for your suggestion that the header links are broken, that probably means that image sprites aren't supported either (I use one long image with multiple icons and reposition them accordingly)

(Note: I added numbers to this post in order to make responding easier. The "1." "2." and "3." were not in the original post)

Gravitation wrote:

Found a small glitch:

student/index.php

1. If you make a course and it's name contains a character that needs to be escaped (' or \), and add a new assignment, the escaping \ will be visible in the dropdown (e.g Somebody\'s Course.) Then, in the Upcoming Assignments box, there are 2 more slashes (e.g. Somebody\\\'s Course.)

2.  found some glitches in IE, but jji's ninja'd me.    There is one more, though: The login box cuts some text off. http://i39.tinypic.com/30cucnk.png

3. Also, your website breaks and glitches quite badly on mobile devices with small screens or smaller browser windows. Maybe you should use more floats? See http://i43.tinypic.com/2jdlu1x.png and http://i44.tinypic.com/5dpbtc.jpg

1. I'll look into that, but it may just require something like restricting the character set, or maybe another hackish solution. Not sure.

2. Okay, will look into compatibility testing. All my development is done in FF20 and I occasionally test in the latest version of Chrome. While not a fair statistic (to compare scratchers to typical users) the majority of our users use Chrome. Also an equal share of FireFox and IE, with a small number of Safari as well.

3. We have styles roughly corresponding to the [ur=978.gs]978 Grid System[/url] and its counterparts. Currently we have stylesheets for 978 and 1218, but no support for under that number. Resolutions higher than that number will likely be compatible with the lower stylesheets, although I can't confirm that for sure.

Last edited by 16Skittles (2013-05-05 11:35:26)