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 link from Mises's biography (http://mises.org/about/3248) to "Books and Essays from Mises (complete text)" doesn't work (is http://mises.org/studyguide.aspx?action=author&Id=280, should probably be http://mises.org/literature.aspx?action=author&Id=280, if there's not a list of study guides on his works or something) - Same page, the link to the downloadable photographs is http://mises.org/content/mises.asp#photos, #photos would be sufficient - The link to Bettina B. Greaves's Annotated Bibliography of Ludwig von Mises (http://mises.org/product.asp?sku=B051) should be http://www.mises.org/store/Product.aspx?ProductId=24 or http://www.mises.org/store/Product.aspx?ProductId=25 (if they aren't really the same) - "Who was Mises" on http://mises.org/misestributes/misesjgh.asp has an unformatted title - "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 the FAQ http://www.mises.org/about/3467#reprint, "every text much be treated in a special way" - FAQ http://www.mises.org/about/3467#other missing an LvM Institute in Brazil: http://www.mises.org.br/ - where's the Russian one? The closest thing I could find is this: http://www.libertarium.ru/libertarium 'Moscow Libertarium' (http://www.libertarium.ru/libertarium/l_eproject) - the Bibliography for Frank Fetter page referred to by several pages is missing: http://www.mises.org/fetterbib.asp - 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 - in A Scholar in Defense of Freedom (http://mises.org/content/mnrasidof.asp), misformatted header - The Unstoppable Rothbard (http://mises.org/article.aspx?Id=1708) a 'link' across multiple lines - 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.)
There are » symbols that break the location bar at the top of a the forum pages.
also, the arrows are probably the most rediculous code I've ever seen. There are 60 elements used to make the triangular shape.
Thank you so much!
Jeffrey TuckerEditorial VP, Mises
Sorry, did you write it?
I really can't see the point in using 60 elements where a 15x60 px .png image would accomplish the same thing and only take up 1 line of code.
(Dunno if you were being sarcastic :/)
jtucker: Thank you so much!
More work for you!
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banned:There are » symbols that break the location bar at the top of a the forum pages.
banned:also, the arrows are probably the most rediculous code I've ever seen. There are 60 elements used to make the triangular shape.
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? 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.
EDIT: Actually I'm pretty sure this is possible.
Don't want to start a riot or anything, but wouldn't be the simplest solution to just cut the tiny symbols with 20+kB size out? :)
I noticed that on some browsers, it does, well, this:
Schools are labour camps.
Peter Sidor: Don't want to start a riot or anything, but wouldn't be the simplest solution to just cut the tiny symbols with 20+kB size out? :)
It's page code that is so big. The background (blue parts) and white arrow parts are all generated pixel by pixel. It is a very sloppy way to do that.
I cut down the code to this
<div class="CustomBreadCrumbArea"><div class="Common"><a href="/Community/forums/"><div class="BreadCrumbItem" style="background-color: rgb(50, 120, 185); float: left;">Forums</div></a> » <a href="/Community/forums/default.aspx?GroupID=10"><div class="BreadCrumbItem" style="background-color: rgb(45, 108, 167); float: left;">About</div></a> » <a href="/Community/forums/28.aspx"><div class="BreadCrumbItem" style="background-color: rgb(41, 98, 151); float: left;">Help and Support</div></a> » <a href="/Community/forums/t/8098.aspx"><div class="BreadCrumbItem" style="background-color: rgb(37, 89, 136); float: left;">Minor Website Issues</div></a></div></div>
Which looks like this
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.
When I view my favorite posts, it says I have 9 items. But it only ever displays 3.
http://mises.org/Community/members/Conza88/favorites/default.aspx
a couple complaints:
-When you are on the home page of mises.org, and try to view your profile, it links to a ridiculous condensed profile listing your user tags.
-the intra site search engine in the mises community suckkks
-want the option to change your email address
-some issues with numbering pages on discussion threads
do we get free cheezeburger in socielism?
fezwhatley:-When you are on the home page of mises.org, and try to view your profile, it links to a ridiculous condensed profile listing your user tags.
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."
fezwhatley:-the intra site search engine in the mises community suckkks
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.
Put this in the google search
SEARCH TERM HERE site:mises.org/Community/forums/
If you want to search the whole community,
SEARCH TERM HERE site:mises.org/Community/
hth
fezwhatley:-want the option to change your email address
fezwhatley:-some issues with numbering pages on discussion threads
I don't know what that means.
thanks for the tips, cant believe i missed it
liberty student: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.
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???
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To add something constructive:
- the notes in Hayek's bio (http://mises.org/about/3234) link to another page - http://mises.org/tradcycl/econdepr.asp - many '-'s turned into '?'s - in Fun (http://mises.org/content/fun.asp), the link to the Money song is broken - but you can have the whole video from the Python's themselves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sor9GzivGbk
Peter Sidor: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.
The end of this article.
http://mises.org/story/2801
In the "media section" some of the author names do not show up in the drop-down.
like this:
I sent an email to the webmaster earlier but got no reply.
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".
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