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[DJ XtAzY]

hello,

i want ask: is theire a chance that we become a better layout for the article list? i hate it, if all articles has a other sice. for me that looks like a chaos site. i like the design from showcase and from the xenmediagallery, where all article cards have the same size.

http://addons.nfljunkies.com/showcase/
http://xenmediagallery.com/media/albums

on these mods, you can see - that all article-cards have the same size. i like that, that looks good.

if yes, i will buy your mod. sorry for my bad english.

you can easily make them the same size via css

http://www.animeosts.net/music/

 

[jörgk]

you can easily make them the same size via css

http://www.animeosts.net/music/

oh, thank you. that looks good. can you share, the code an a short description, what i have to do, that i become your layout?

thank you for your answer.

 

[D.O.A.]

4) I can't really say, there is still much to do, I would like to include a few more things for next version
less than 2 Months more than a week. Sorry, I can't be more accurate than that.

From what I see of your latest version running http://xenzine.com/ seems like massive performance increase over the last version there, your mod is an invaluable piece of our website and I look forward to the upgrade

That loading overlay was slightly annoying after a while

 

[tenants]

I've been doing a lot of performance work.. making sure it runs smoothly, with thousands of articles on the page at the same time, even on low spec devices. I've added thousands of dummy articles at xenzine.com, they're handle very well even on the IPad1 (256 MB Ram, 4 yrs old) which is more than I can say for pintrest/bing images/other "big" sites. I seem to crash on lots of "big" sites, but xenzine handles well now. If it handles well on the IPad1, I think it should handle well on any low spec device.

I agree about the loading overlay, it was no longer needed. Even with 1 Meg images on the page (such as the animated image on xenzine.com), the background of the images load first, then fading in the images independently as they load, making it visually fast.

... no need to wait for the images to load any more, it feels fast even with heavy images, and requires low memory

I'm currently overhauling the Article Page before adding the Inner Article Custom Fields (custom fields can currently be added to tabs, or several to a separate tab, but I want to update the Article Page before allowing them to be added within the Article)

Some ideas for the Article Page:
http://xenzine.com/threads/article-page-tabs-layout-design.199/

 

[arms]

Like the look of this.

The article list page loads mega fast, whereas the the category list page (http://xenzine.com/articles/category-list) has 2 loading article image overlays on permanently.

@tenants, I've built my forum around 1st post likes. If I was to use this is there anyway to link the likes with article, so if I like the article, the 1st post of discussion/thread will be liked and vice-versa.

 

[Barbossa]

Without something similar to this, my members wouldn't even to bother just to make a single click, going to another page for discussion or to reply saying "Thanks for the article."

@tenants
Can we have something similar please?

 

[tenants]

Like the look of this.

The article list page loads mega fast, whereas the the category list page (http://xenzine.com/articles/category-list) has 2 loading article image overlays on permanently.

The Category List is redundant and will be removed (or updated... haven't decided yet). xenzine.com is not a release version, it's a testing ground for the next version, so may have bits falling off

Now there is an option to open up the list of categories via the Article List, so the Category List plays no real importance

@tenants, I've built my forum around 1st post likes. If I was to use this is there anyway to link the likes with article, so if I like the article, the 1st post of discussion/thread will be liked and vice-versa.

No, Articles are completely independent separate entries (they are not threads, but can be converted to threads, or the 1st post of a thread can be converted to an article). I can't remember if Likes are imported when converting Threads to Articles (I will need to check, but I think they are imported)

 

[erich37]

Without something similar to this, my members wouldn't even to bother just to make a single click, going to another page for discussion or to reply saying "Thanks for the article."

can you please create a mockup of how this would look like ?

 

[Barbossa]

can you please create a mockup of how this would look like ?

Please see the attachment there. http://xenforo.com/community/resources/discussion-in-resource-overview-by-waindigo.2452/

Lets say there would be a massage posting box under the article. So, that members don't need to click "discussion" to see/write replies.

 

[Morgain]

I use the Category list as my landing page, and main articles page.
I also have quite a strong background image on the forum.
On this key Category List page I would like the background of the text lists of categories in the middle, to be opaque.
See http://www.mabinogistudy.com/

Could you give me a snippet to put in EXTRA.css to do this please.
EDIT Have made scr. blue lines outline the categories (bit shaky)

Any way to show the forums as if they are a Category? that would be neat - this makes a great contents page.

 

[erich37]

I use the Category list as my landing page, and main articles page.

@Morgain

looking at the next release, I would suggest to make the "Article List" as your landing page.
Especially given that "Recent Activity / Recent Articles" will be the default view at the "Article List" in the upcoming release anyway.

IMHO, there is not much value in displaying the "Category List" at the Homepage, when there is already a "Category Carousel" having much more features & functionality (e.g.: "Watching Category", "Editor Picks", etc.) directly at the "Article List".

 

[HenrikHansen]

Please, will someone with a license install this and this see if this BBcode works for with Zenzine ?
http://xenforo.com/community/resources/soundcloud-bbcode-media-site.1715/
(it will take 5 minutes)
Example of Soundcloud link https://soundcloud.com/wsjthismorning/the-wall-street-journal-355

(it is important for me to find out to see if I can use Xenzine for my project.

 

[Morgain]

@Morgain
looking at the next release, I would suggest to make the "Article List" as your landing page.
Especially given that "Recent Activity / Recent Articles" will be the default view at the "Article List" in the upcoming release anyway.
IMHO, there is not much value in displaying the "Category List" at the Homepage, when there is already a "Category Carousel" having much more features & functionality (e.g.: "Watching Category", "Editor Picks", etc.) directly at the "Article List".

For many sites you are right Erich. For most of mine which are academic in nature, the colourful pictures display are a great option, but cannot be the core view. For that we need a sober and boring text list of the Categories.
The nature of this work is tightly structured, and long term articles, so people like us need a structured overview at a glance, with links to each section. The Category list does this perfectly - so @tenants please do not abolish it as an option.

 

[erich37]

For that we need a sober and boring text list of the Categories.

click the button named "Categories" in the "grey-colored bar" underneath the Category-Carousel (at the right-hand-side) at www.xenzine.com
There you have your sober and boring text list of the Categories.

 

[Morgain]

click the button named "Categories" in the "grey-colored bar" underneath the Category-Carousel (at the right-hand-side) at www.xenzine.com
There you have your sober and boring text list of the Categories.

That's good it's still there Erich. But most academics won't go looking for a little button - or don't know how. Added to that how are they to know the list is there to go looking for how to open it up?
They will just see some nice pictures - react by thinking it's a pop magazine and not take the site seriously.

Mike @tenants please please make it an option to have the old Cats page layout as an option. It;s perfect for the more stuffy kind of site.

 

[Krisx]

Apologies if its already been asked by are there any issues between this and 1.3 as my forum is going to move over once its rc

 

[DJ XtAzY]

oh, thank you. that looks good. can you share, the code an a short description, what i have to do, that i become your layout?

thank you for your answer.

Put this in Extra.css

/* XENZINE CUSTOM CSS */
.articleInfo .articleImage .articleImageContainer { max-width: 350px; overflow: hidden; }
.view-tags a, .view-reviews a {    width: 65px; }        
.crop {    height:160px; }
.articleList h3 { font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; }
.articleList .styledBox .artImg img { width: 252px; }
.articleList .titleContent { height: 68px; }
.titleBlockLink a { padding: 6px 5px 6px; }
.articleList .imgTitleOverlay, .articleList .styledBox { width: 250px; }
.masonry .box img { width:265px; }

But you should customize to your own taste since my css also modifies the h3 and titles I think.

 

[BuildBridges]

Looks like an incredible add-on.

Two questions:

1) Is the word "article" phrased? For example, instead of categorizing "articles", can that phrase be configured to say "Listings" or "Rentals" or "Books" or something other than articles.
2) Can this be integrated to show items in the Resource Manager? Or if not, does it have the ability to attribute an upload item like the Resource Manager?

Thank u!

 

[Morgain]

A lot of this addon is phrased so yes you can use it for verious objects.

Not sure what the function is you want like the RM.
You could link to RM items in the 'article' or an associated thread.
There is also a grid display on the way, which will include link fields.
Uploads are just graphics I think.

 

[TheSalt]

Hello,

I just wanted to double check, does this work on XF1.2? Thank you.