[BNM] Kwiqq V2.0: Would love your feedback
Raj Anand
raj.anand at kwiqq.com
Sat Jan 26 09:51:46 GMT 2008
Hi Toby,
Thought I'll quickly update you on things. Firstly thanks once again for the
wonderful suggestions. We have done a lot of upgrading on the design.
Though still some bits like random users on the browse page appear (next
month fingers crossed that will be completed too)
In regards to:
The multimedia widget defaults to say "This is some HTML" and people
> have not removed that on their profiles. If it is possible to use HTML
> within the widget, better to say that at the editing stage. In FF the
> HTML
> is displayed at a different size in the text box. It's really
> teeny-tiny.
> - Whats the Multimedia widget for? Can I embed video here from YouTube
> etc? If so how, and will it only display at a pre-specified size so as
> not
> to break the formatting of the page?
>
>
We are planning to scrap the html widget and add a YouTube and Audio widget
instead :) No messing with HTML :)
Cheers,
Raj
On 22/01/2008, Toby <toby at republicofheaven.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Raj/Jack,
>
> Hope you are well.
>
> Just a few cosmetic and usability things that I found......
>
>
> - On the home page the "Make Friends-learn a language" banner covers
> the bottom of the nav buttons.
> - Might be better to specify a size of image that a user can upload as
> their profile thumbnail. The images on the home page for recent logins
> and
> most popular users are all different sizes/orientations, and it makes
> it
> look messy. Facebook, for example, lets you move your uploaded image
> around
> to display a certain area of it, this means you always get a fixed
> width and
> height. Looks much neater.
> - Photo galleries don't give an option to view next/previous picture.
> That means more clicks, making it harder for the user to navigate.
> - I was also given the option to remove a users contacts when not
> registered or logged in.
> - Selecting a tag from a users profile (the english tag from
> http://www.voxswap.com/user/xademloosx) gives a farily random page
> with images down one side. Again messy looking as they're all different
> sizes and theres no information about anyone there. Might be better to
> show
> the users names/languages and display the images horizontally instead
> of
> vertically. Also on the refine tag search, are these tags from the
> users who
> profile I've just come from?
> - When scrolling down a users profile (http://www.voxswap.com/user/Pat)
> then back up the Your Profile box doesn't display properly. Its fine
> when
> the page loads, its only when scrolling back up, the blue bars appear
> in the
> box and make the text hard to read (this seems to be IE6, as FF 2
> doesn't
> have the same problem). The images in her photo gallery are redexed
> when you
> click on them, but the thumbnails show.
> - When registering, if you dont enter correct information, the images
> next to the incorrect info dont appear, i.e. Your last name must be at
> least two letters long is redexed, as are all the other ones for
> missing
> info. Would this not be better as text? More accesible for someone
> resizing
> text on the page.
> - Might be useful to specify which info is required when registering,
> as well as saying the mobile number is optional. Unwise to make
> assumptions
> that people will know that everything else is required as they are not
> as
> clever as what we is!!
> - The multimedia widget defaults to say "This is some HTML" and people
> have not removed that on their profiles. If it is possible to use HTML
> within the widget, better to say that at the editing stage. In FF the
> HTML
> is displayed at a different size in the text box. It's really
> teeny-tiny.
> - Whats the Multimedia widget for? Can I embed video here from YouTube
> etc? If so how, and will it only display at a pre-specified size so as
> not
> to break the formatting of the page?
> - Dont get the add stuff to your profile bit. Lets you add stuff that
> is already there. I now have two photo galleries and news sections
> - In IE6, when I check my profile the labels dont appear in the Your
> Profile widget.
>
> </twocentsworth>
>
> Looks really nice though, much better than the 2wentysworld site.
>
>
> Toby
> :)
>
>
> On 21/01/2008, James McCarthy <james2mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Raj,
> >
> > I was able to remove somebody else's contacts for them - I wasn't even
> > signed up or logged in.
> >
> > And on the nav bar the Users tab flows down to the next line and
> > overlays half of the Home tab.
> >
> > When somebody speaks multiple languages it tells me;
> >
> > I speak English
> > I speak Urdu
> > I speak Spanish
> >
> > Of course I barely speak any of those, but you could keep the labels
> > DRY.
> >
> > I'm on FF3 Beta 2.
> >
> > On 17 Jan 2008, at 14:50, Raj Anand wrote:
> >
> > > Hey BNM list
> > >
> > >
> > > I was wondering if you had any feedback for Kwiqq Boys. We have just
> > > launched Version 2 of our software. Our first site in this series is:
> > > www.voxswap.com
> > >
> > >
> > > I blogged < http://www.kwiqq.com/blog/?p=206> about it few minutes
> > > back.
> > > Extract from the blog:
> > >
> > > Kwiqq V2 is built on Symfony. Symfony <http://www.symfony-
> > > project.org/> is
> > >> an open source PhP framework developed over several years.
> > >>
> > >> 1. Enterprise ready: Hence it allows us to scale as the community
> > >> grows.
> > >> 2. Built in Ajax: We can quickly deploy Ajax features for our
> > >> clients
> > >> 3. Clean code: I love the modular code and MVC model symfony
> > >> follows
> > >> 4. Open Source: This allows us not only to access the wider open
> > >> source development community but also to give something back
> > >>
> > >>
> > > Would love your Feedback on the site/technology.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Raj
> > >
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Raj Anand
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