Paizo Website

[Franz Lunzer]

Are the lists gone?
Or where are they, on the Paizo Blog page?

[ruemere]

Gary Teter wrote:

Oh our HTML is terrible. We know that. :) Making it better is kind of far down the list. As long as browsers display it OK, I'd rather put resources into making the store work better.

I've seen worse. :). And SAP web-based solutions are something people have to see for themselves to believe.

The point I'm trying to make is that without clear adherence to a specification, the browsers need to make a call when trying to handle a special case, and due to resource constraints such errors may lead to partial loading of the page. This is quite common occurrence for mobile browsers, Chrome and Safari.

My suggestion would be to focus getting the code to validate against HTML 4.01 Transitional and then proceed toward desired standard.
DISCLAIMER: I usually use Opera's Dragonfly to form an opinion of a page. It's handy, fast, but it is not perfect.

Regards,
Ruemere

[Damon Griffin]

Kruelaid wrote:

You're supposed to see this... I think.

Aha! My bad, then. I had to click to enlarge the two screen captures to see the difference, but I do in fact see quoted text highlighted and other features as depicted in your attachment rather than the earlier "I get this a lot" image.

[Alexander Kilcoyne]

Wow... What happened to the site today? Epic downtime...

Edit: Internet troubles for Paizo according to facebook, in case anyone else was wondering.

[Firstbourne]

Alexander Kilcoyne wrote:

Wow... What happened to the site today? Epic downtime...

Edit: Internet troubles for Paizo according to facebook, in case anyone else was wondering.

I was hoping that the downtime was caused by the massive uploading of the Carrion Crown Player's Guide...

[Freesword]

I'm all in favor of cleaning up the html and css code on the site, but as long as it's working I can appreciate it being a low priority. As Gary said:

Gary Teter wrote:

As long as browsers display it OK, I'd rather put resources into making the store work better.

As far as adding features/functionality, I admit I would not be opposed to a Private Message system. There have been one or two occasions where I would have found one useful.

And Please NO Emoticons.

Laithoron wrote:

Emoticons: Keep 'em gone. Text-based smileys work just fine and we all know what they mean. We don't need a yellow circle to know that you're joking, ;) works, and people are much less likely to spam 10 ascii emoticons in row than they are with graphical smileys. All the graphical emoticons do is break-up the flow of a post when you're reading it.

I like that the site is clean and easy to use. No flash interface and a dozen scripts. Please keep it that way. Unless it somehow manages to make things easier to find it is little more than unnecessary overhead that gets in the way. I would also assume that keeping things light weight would also be best for mobile devices. (I'm not a mobile device user myself, but I recall the early devices were limited in what they could handle and it keeps bandwidth bills down.)

[0gre]

Vic Wertz wrote:

Kruelaid wrote:

...2-3% of the time...

Whoa. Is anybody else who sees this seeing it anywhere near that often?

What's your browser/OS?

Kind delayed reply but I almost never see the stylesheet get dropped. Linux/ Chrome or Linux/ Firefox.

[Brian E. Harris]

I haven't seen it since switching primarily to Chrome, though I did see it every now and then in IE8.

I'd see the same thing with MSN.com now and then.

Both sites, I'd just hit F5 to refresh/reload, and that would fix it.

I've seen it on other websites in the past. Always attributed it to the browser.

[thenorthman]

Toadkiller Dog wrote:

Gorbacz wrote:

Rudimentary it might be, what counts is that it's functional, for me at least.

You can't look at it that way. Websites are also an online presentation of the company, and they matter much. It's also advertising - the more sophisticated it is, it will have more hits, the more hits it have, it will appear more often on google, the more it appears on google, the more people come here etc etc. There's a whole field of study dedicated just to google trends and the effects that the website has on marketing success of the company.

Quote:

Remember that the website doubles as an online store.

It's not the only one of the kind. Lots of websites do that.

Laste coming into the conversation but Dwarven FOrge recently "upgraded" and I have quite going since.

So if its anything like that upgrade its not good.

Plus not everything needs to get hooked into Google.

Sean

[Darkholme]

While I love PFRPG, and Paizo is my favorite gaming company, the forums leave something to be desired in many cases.
Here are my gripes with the them.

- I often have several threads open at once: If I start typing a response, the response doesnt always show up in the right thread.
It often shows up in whatever the most recent thread I looked at was (which doesn't always coincide with the message I'm writing).
Sometimes I use an option to auto-refresh my open pages every 5 minutes, and as above, it puts my response in the wrong thread.
If you click add new thread and you've refreshed a different forum since you loaded the page you're clicking, it posts it in the other forum instead. It's kindof annoying.
- Custom avatars/far more avatars: I get that you want to make sure they're SFW, but I often identify posters by their image before their name, and the current system means there is often enough overlap that I sometimes mix up who said what.
-Quickreply: Having a textbox at the bottom of a page that posts in the current thread without having to open a new window would be nice.
-Multiquote: The ability to reply to multiple posts. Right now I have to hit reply to each one, and then go through the pages copying their text I need to quote, and then copy paste them all into the last page to reply.
- Non-truncated quote: Often I hit reply, and the quote ends off cutting out the important part of the post because it's too long or something so I have to go back and copy paste the text.
-Thread export; there are often times I want to save a thread locally, but no reliable way for me to do so without using a spider that indexes, like your entire site. The ability to show all the posts in a thread on a sinle page would be amazing.
-Thread Printing: Along the lines of the above, the ability to do that combined with higing the paizo site UI, so I can print the page, would be amazing.