Hi, Joe and the usual suspects. ;-) I'm wondering about this new sign in module. I really like it, because some of us can easily overlook that small text-link line at the very top, and wander around for a long time looking for a way to sign up or in -- yes, I am often a doofus, and I understand it's a common affliction.

Here's my question: when you're signed in, which obviously you are when you're doing admin stuff like adding/editing modules, you don't see the sign-in box, so there's no possibility of doing any "feature editing" on it. When you're signed out, you do see the box, but obviously not the admin links, so again, no feature editing. I'm wondering if maybe it should be set so that if you're signed in as the head guy in charge, you still see the box, so that feature editing can take place. Of course that does presume that any feature editing is possible or necessary; perhaps an intro type of text, explaining why signing up is beneficial, that nothing nefarious will happen to their email address, etc.

At the moment I'd like to edit the CSS somewhat, to make the Register and Lost Password links to be slightly larger, but I can't find the classes, unless it's just "settingrow", but if I set the font size larger for that class, I'm slightly afraid of what it might do to any other instances of "settingrow" text (since I don't know where/what they are).

I was really unsure of which topic to post this in; I realize this is a brand new feature, so it could have gone in the "development" topic, but I know diddly about source code, so I really have no business in that topic at all. :-) Maybe there should be a topic for the discussion of just-added stuff?  I dunno if this is more of a code or skin issue, so I just went with "site admin," since my query does deal with the admin person's ability to see/edit the feature.
 

Thx!

Andria

My life could not continue without Firebug -- when I discovered it a couple years ago, I was flabbergasted that I had managed to write any HTML/CSS without it.  But the classes tend to be so nested, it's sometimes hard to figure out the right combo to get "at" the thing you want to edit.

It's also true that I learned CSS 1.0 back in 1999; managed to keep up when 2.0 came along, pretty much, but now I'm seeing a LOT of stuff I've never seen before, so I think I need to find another good tutorial and brush up on some of this new stuff.  The internet just never stops, does it?

(my HTML editor is also circa 1999, so nowadays when I type a line of code with the /> at the end, it always gives me a bunch of lip about that not being proper code!)

Andria

Thanks Rick, I'll give it a look, but the main reason I'm still using Homesite 4.5 is that I've never found anything better -- it's so amazingly intuitive, and has a wizard for darn near everything, but doesn't try to write it for you (unless you really want it to).  I tried Arachnophilia for a while and it was ok, but you had to do most of the wizard setting-up yourself.  Good for converting RTF to HTML, though.

One thing that most folks seem to absolutely LOOOOOOOOOVE is Dreamweaver, and I've never been able to figure out the first thing about it.  I want to be able to see the code, to "fix" it myself if necessary, and not have the program override me -- Homesite gives me little msgs but I ignore them, and it lets me.  I found out that at some point, Allaire (the ones who originated Homesite, and mine still is an Allaire version) sold it to the Dreamweaver folks, and now it's the "text editor" component of Dreamweaver.  But I can't make Dreamweaver do anything useful.  When I first began, back in 1999, I stumbled into some forum or other, for some freehost, and heard a lot of useful stuff from a guy who frequented that forum, primarily, learn to write your own HTML and CSS and don't depend on a program to do it for you; it's very easy, really, if you understand how stylesheets work in word processing, it's a piece of cake -- it's worked pretty well so far, although I like how Artisteer creates all the CSS and even IE versions.

Also Homesite has an internal interface with TopStyle, and it's the "Lite" (free) version, so it's also sadly out of date, and that really concerns me more than the archaic status of the HTML editor -- HTML doesn't change a great deal, and Homesite lets me write whatever I want anyway, but the CSS, there's the real spirit of the thing, and it seems to change constantly.

Andria

Thanks, I'll email right away!  I'm assuming that it would run in win XP Pro?  My son keeps harping on me about needing to update my computer (hardware AND software) but honestly, the only place I feel a pinch is needing more memory -- otherwise XP Pro seems to be about the most sound piece of work from microsloth since Win 3.1.  Knowing how rare such a sound OS is from MS, I hesitate and then some before "upgrading" to something new from them.  Only about every 5th release is usually worth the time to install it -- or uninstall it and reinstall something older that actually works!

Thx!

Andria