You know it. Every website, that has been around for a while tends to accumulate small problems, typos, migration issues and other ballast. Even with the best webmasters, big websites will have their imperfections hidden in odd corners, waiting to jump on unsuspecting visitors and spoil their experience.
This thread is here to collect such minor issues, so that the webmasters can attend to them, when they have time. If you find some problems, add them. Let’s keep the place in shape!
“The Story of the Lost Papers” (http://mises.org/lostpapers.asp) has some broken special characters, mostly from German umlauts ( G?tz Aly, D?sseldorf, Germany: Hans-Bl?ckler-Stiftung, Moscow?s, Beuteakten aus ?sterreich*: Der ?sterreichbestand*, Instituts f?r Kriegsfolgen, J?rg Guido H?lsmann, H?lsmann)
in Rothbard’s works, the “Praxeology: The Methodology of Austrian Economics” is displayed twice. Same file, same description, different ‘Related’ tags.
in the biography of A.R.J. Turgot (http://mises.org/about/3244) is a header gone wrong, close to the bottom of the page: selected=“true”=“true” READINGS
http://mises.org/about/3241 Wilhelm Röpke (1899-1966): Humane Economist, malformatted headers; also odd bibliography
the RSS link in Literature and related pages under the ‘Filter By’ menu does not work (other RSS links work)
in the Literature search, it says in nice large letters how many results were found, but not what exactly was searched for. Unusual. (Okay, this is more of a change request.)
I’m not quite sure that is right. It looks like boilerplate template code for the breadcrumbs but for some reason the CSS is inline (the elements) instead of in the css file.
It’s about 23,434 characters long right now. Which is about 22.8kb. Quite a bit of page bloat. Probably not good for SEO either, because some of the search engines only index the first 80,000 or so characters.
I agree, it could be done in plain text (attractively enough) or using background images to maintain the current look. Probably cut that down to approx 1,000 chars. That’s about 1.1 KB. But then if you use images, you will have to add them in, although they will be cached if I recall correctly.
So potential savings of around 15 to 18 kb per community page load. Rough guesstimate if the community loads 250,000 times per month, that’s… 3.75gb of bandwidth. I imagine the community probably gets closer to a million page loads a month, but then the blogs don’t use the same breadcrumb template.
Another upside is a lower server load per connection and faster browser render times.
Now who will code up some nice CSS breadcrumbs that are lightweight for HeroicLife? [:D] I don’t do design anymore.
@Jeff, there is a problem with this Tom Woods video. It is only about 30 MB. The other ones were all over 100MB. When I play it, it just cuts off around 15 minutes in or so. It’s #10 in the lecture series.
Actually, I see the reason it’s like that now. In order for the arrow point to be nested within another arrow and also work alone (represent a current location on the forum), each segment needs to be seperate. To fix this, I’m pretty sure the whole template would need to be changed.
With a little bit of styling, that could be cleaned up. Anyone who knows CSS could pad the different links, and add a colour change on mouse hover, and that would probably do.
It loads a different style for BreadCrumbArrow when it is showing the current location. The segments that would be the tail of another arrow are made white. You don’t have to remove the whole element, you just have to make it load a different image when it is showing the current forum location, and since there’s already something in place that will alter the element when it’s on the current location, this wouldn’t be hard to impliment.
The front of the site and the community are two different sets of software which is why you have different profile listings with the common login.
As some Russian developers I used to work with would say, “This is not a bug, this is a feature.”
Indeed. That is a community server (software) issue. It’s not something simple to fix. Community Server IMO is the best and worst piece of software ever. But they will improve it eventually. In the meanwhile, you can use this for google searches.
Is that the reason why I am only logged into the ‘community’ and not the ‘site’? I tried to log in to the site as well, but don’t get any text fields to do so (funnily enough, I am shown there as logged in). Should I join on the main site with the same username, or???
Your login should be persistent. I am logged into both right now. Most of my comments in this thread are from observation and I know some stuff about the web. I don’t actually know how the bridge between the main site and the community is constructed.
If you are still not logged into the front end, then I would completely log out, login to the front end, then enter the community and see if that works. It just occurred to me that might be it.
When you open the mises.org website, at the right side of the site, where there is: Mises Blog / User Blogs / Forums , and you try to click at “Forums”, the page is finishing loading and it moves and you accidentally click at “forums rss”.
