New Layout

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Permalink Reply by Sawubona Admin on October 7, 2008 at 8:57pm

known problems right now:

Music Factory --> the new layout is not included yet....

Member pages --> there is a file with the style sheets corrupt.... :-(

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Permalink Reply by Sawubona Admin on October 7, 2008 at 11:16pm

update on Member Profil pages, the basic styles are back online and working....

I guess we will deactivate the custom settings and set a master template until we matched the themes to the new layout...

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Permalink Reply by Carsten Trotzkowski on October 7, 2008 at 11:14pm

Moin, Admin,

great job - new layout is very fine.

IMHO, it has a clear structure and has potential to lead everyone to the information he needs first.

Good balance between graphical ambience and functionality.

Only thing I've found yet: The "Home" site still does not invite passers-by to have a quick glance at the music or poems. We may should set some focus on passers-by, for they will have to see first what the site is like - but without feeling one should sign in before having a walk through.

This could either be achieved by adding two sections: Sawubona Player, and any excerpt from poems factory (Niran's poem like in "ABOUT" section, a link to Poems Factory, or a random poem), to HOME page. I fear Dieters little hint in his comment at page bottom to visit "community" might be overlooked.

anyway it might be a good idea to give that great new big b&w pictogram some link functionality like:

The Guitarist pictogram section: Link to Music Factory
The Pen (feather) pic: Link to Poems Factory
The Charity Cross: Link to project description

By the way: Is the "Red Cross" symbol royalty free or licensed?

Anyway, I really like the new design!

:-) Carsten (-:

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Permalink Reply by Carsten Trotzkowski on October 7, 2008 at 11:30pm

Oh - there IS alraedy a player :-O

OK, let's wait if the other's see it better than me :-)

:-) Carsten (-:

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Permalink Reply by Manuela Geiger on October 8, 2008 at 9:34am

Hi Carsten,

thanks for your feedback! The idea to link the pictograms at home withe the Music/Poems Factory is good. We will do this.

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Permalink Reply by Sawubona Admin on October 8, 2008 at 9:38am

Hey Carsten,

thank you for the feedback! The idea withe the links in the head-image is great!
I really have no clue why we didn't see that on our own... I will put this on my 'Today - to-do-list'

Regards,

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Permalink Reply by Conny on October 7, 2008 at 11:19pm

wonderful, beautiful site. congratulations for the new outfit. Conny

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Permalink Reply by Sawubona Admin on October 8, 2008 at 12:17pm

Update

The BRAND NEW MUSIC FACTORYis online!

Check out the new layout there and have fun with some new features :)

Kind Regards,

Sawubona Admin Team

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Permalink Reply by Carsten Trotzkowski on October 9, 2008 at 12:52am

Moin, Admin

Idea of new Music Factory is good, access is faster now.

Still I'm afraid that the points we discussed on that Friday phonecalls are not implemented yet - such as:

* Keep all tracks of a song from being displayed as long as no Project is selected
* Therefore the object hierarchy is still not clear. Should be strictly

SONG => PROJECT => TRACKS

* You have to know there's a difference from clicking the graphical block of a project / track, or by hitting within that the link name of it.....
* The attributes to fill out per upload still won't align to that hierarchy
* Auto approval for known contributors is not there yet.
* Poems Podcast category is still missing

But it looks like were not far from the aim now!

:-) Carsten (-:

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Permalink Reply by Dieter Huober on October 8, 2008 at 5:30pm

Siyabonga, really great work and state of the art!! Thanks to all!!! (:--))))!!!!!!!

Dieter

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Permalink Reply by Sawubona Admin on October 8, 2008 at 5:49pm

Update 2nd:

Functionality:
- everything should work without problems, tha last runthrough was fine. If there is something that is not working for you, give me a shout please!

To-Do-List:
- Some minor style-changes, some more color there, a bit less here... you know what I mean :)
- There is something wrong with the custom profile themes, we are working on that right now
- The links on the head image (sry Carsten, that was not possible today)
- Another cup of coffee for me. You can admit that this is fixed within the next 3minutes :-)

*wave*
sawubona admins

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Permalink Reply by Sawubona Admin on October 9, 2008 at 10:41am

Update 3rd:

Carsten mentioned one point >>By the way: Is the "Red Cross" symbol royalty free or licensed?

We are not sure, so we exchanged the images just to avoid any copyright-problems... and to be honest, i like this version even more :)
In addition to this, we exchanged the icon for the musicplayer.

Manuela found a link which was working, but not with the right destination *nice*
Further more, I want to mention that she took care of our Profile at MySpace. *thumbs up*

Regards

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