Site traveller.

[ZOMBIE USER 10925]

Hello! I've just picked up the server language PHP ( stands for Php Hypertext Pre-processor ) and wrote a site front-end from scratch. It lets one view images in a database, that way they're not sitting in a directory somewhere where you have to worry about file permissions, FTP clients, &c....

My admin page allows upload from a browser in a one-button upload/update/delete menu.

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I am looking for beta users, and any functional comments/suggestions welcome.

Everyone here is welcome to try it out at:
http://test.r3d.net/traveller/traveller.html

It's pointing to a test database I set up... I'm creating a new table to hold my webcomic... when it eventually comes online.

[TwoDifferentSox]

Looks interesting, makes me curous how PhP works.
A cool navigation for sure.

The onlz thing I can suggest right now to improve is maybe to make the menue easier to use?
Okay, it`s not exactly difficult to figure out when you simply toy around with it.
Oh, and I just noticed, when I press "-1" it always adds one picture to the already existing ones, instead of changeing the page to the previous day, is it to be intended that way?
I`m comparing it to the normal previous-comic function, as Untitled has for example.

Oh, and another point is probably just something bad for me: you can`t use the IE back-button as I noticed, what`s only bad for me because I use it al the time.

[ZOMBIE USER 10925]

It sounds like you were in "7-comic" mode, in which case, it tries to show you "today", followed by the next 6 comics, or until "today", whichever comes first.

What suggestions do you have to soften the learning curve for the interface?



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Warning: Semi-Technical description of PHP:
PHP is a scripting language very similar to Javascript, with one major exception, it resides on the server, and the user cannot see any of it. If you go to http://test.r3d.net you can see some of my test php files and their source. They range from "template.html" to more complex examples like "recursion.html". One script lets you see others, it is called "sourcereader.html".

[Rcawley8]

Hmmm... PHP sounds awesome. Espacially if you are running properity code of some sort or artwork as you demostrated.

Very nice.

However, I still seem to be able to print what is on the screen, meaing if I was really wanting to get a picture, I could print it and re-scan it.

[ZOMBIE USER 10925]

Hmmm... PHP sounds awesome. Espacially if you are running properity code of some sort or artwork as you demostrated.

Very nice.

However, I still seem to be able to print what is on the screen, meaing if I was really wanting to get a picture, I could print it and re-scan it.

I just added the anti-right click Javascript. That's a browser-side script. It's set to act on images only.

Thank you.

There's always a risk if the user has to see them. That means a screen shot will work, short of watermarking the images.

[TwoDifferentSox]

It sounds like you were in "7-comic" mode, in which case, it tries to show you "today", followed by the next 6 comics, or until "today", whichever comes first.

I was in a mode that I had the normal page with only one picture first, then I clicked -1, got a new window with the first picture and above it another picture, then did it again and had suddenly three pictures. Does that sound like the 7 comic mode?
I`m quite sure I pressed the -1....but don`t ask me to reproduce the circumstances, I have no clue what I clicked beforehand, I was simply trying out all buttons. 0.o

What suggestions do you have to soften the learning curve for the interface?

It would make it more idiot proof when youd could label the numbers with writings as "next day, next week, previous day, previous week" or similar.

Oh, and I`m not sure what the comics/months selection means. Is it supposed to shown you seven months worth of comics when you select "month" and click "-7" then?

[ZOMBIE USER 10925]

Yes, you described the 7-comic mode perfectly :)


Currently the button menu is:

Move: (*)comics ( )months (Start |-7 |-1 | 1 | 7 |Today) Display: 1 comic(current) (7)


Would it be much clearer if I split it into two lines and added 3 words?

Move: (*)comics ( )months (Start |-7 |-1 | 1 | 7 |Today)
Display: 1 comic(current) (7) at a time.

[ZOMBIE USER 10925]

Sox, I'm not sure if you're still reading these, but I thank you for your time and input.

I did some tweaking server-side and now you can scroll back, and in addition, I tweaked the html so it assigns unique names to the pictures so they are cached in memory properly.

[TwoDifferentSox]

I`m not sure if you answered the question of mine about the months?
Can you make show the content of 7 months worth of comics at once when you change the box at the beginning to "months"?

And I`m glad you liked my input, wish I could have given more productive help.

[ZOMBIE USER 10925]

oh,
those are two seperate sections:

Motion
Display

Display has only two options, "show 1 comic", and "show 7 comics".

that would be a lot of comics to show even 1 month (up to 31+ comics). :)
at about 60K each = 2MB ?

(Plus my system supports up to 256 comics per "day")
(It was the smallest integer I could set it to use! :D )