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**.Lou** · (This post was last modified: 10-08-2007 02:31 AM by .Lou.)

Alright, I've now successfully update dotlou.com to an almost finished system, and I would like some feedback.

Feel free to comment on anything there, but I would like most if comments were made on the system itself and not the design of the page.

>> http://dotlou.com

**absorbation** · 10-08-2007, 03:34 PM

It looks the same as it was a year ago (A)

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You still need to write some of your pages Lou

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**the andyman** · 10-08-2007, 03:59 PM

Looks like a good fully-featured system

A few suggestions, not crucial but would make it better:
Add <![CDATA[ around the news posts (in the description tags) in the RSS feed so that some readers interpret it better.
You ask for users' websites when leaving a comment but it never appears to (or have the chance to) link to them when the comments are displayed.
Also in the comments the validation word should maybe be in speech marks or italics so it looks separate to the "Type" text.
Remove the "Admin" link for security reasons (and change the copyright message on the admin logon page for visual reasons

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Remove "- Home" from the title of news posts.

**Chris** · 10-08-2007, 04:50 PM

Looking Good, very pro (Y)

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(off topic: That site loads very fast

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**.Lou** · 10-08-2007, 07:58 PM

the andyman Wrote:Looks like a good fully-featured system

A few suggestions, not crucial but would make it better:
Add <![CDATA[ around the news posts (in the description tags) in the RSS feed so that some readers interpret it better.
You ask for users' websites when leaving a comment but it never appears to (or have the chance to) link to them when the comments are displayed.
Also in the comments the validation word should maybe be in speech marks or italics so it looks separate to the "Type" text.
Remove the "Admin" link for security reasons (and change the copyright message on the admin logon page for visual reasons ).
Remove "- Home" from the title of news posts.

What's the cdata thing do exactly?

As for the websites, that's on my to-do list for before it's released. I'll do the word thing, I'll stick it in italics too. The admin link is only there while I work on the system, because I keep switching from the main page to the admin page constantly. What's wrong with the copyright in the admin thing btw?

As for the -home text, that's a bug in my if thing, which is not actually part of the system. When a new design is made, I'll recode the title thing

@absorbation: The thing is, the content doesn't matter, it's how the content is displayed that does.

@Chris: Thanks. And no, that's not off topic. It matters to me how fast the system loads the pages for everyone, because the wordpress blog that was there before didn't load as fast

**the andyman** · 10-09-2007, 03:07 PM

CDATA stops your feed from breaking if there is any HTML in it whilst still letting RSS readers parse the HTML, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDATA#CDATA...ons_in_XML

copyright message on admin page Wrote:Copyright © 2006 Louhabs.com. All rights reserved.

**.Lou** · (This post was last modified: 10-09-2007 10:50 PM by .Lou.)

the andyman Wrote:CDATA stops your feed from breaking if there is any HTML in it whilst still letting RSS readers parse the HTML, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDATA#CDATA...ons_in_XML

copyright message on admin page Wrote:Copyright © 2006 Louhabs.com. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2007 dotLou.com. All rights reserved.

Ah of course, I guess I missed that one

I'll fix it right away. As for the cdata, I'll definitely have a look at it, since I'm beginning to be annoyed of iGoogle's crappy rss thing; I might actually get myself a proper reader, and would of course like to support rss readers.

Edit: I'm trying the cdata thing right now (FireFox doesn't like it tbh, but I'm installing feedreader to see what it thinks =p).

Edit2: Well, I tried it, it works in Feedreader quite nicely, but FireFox isn't liking it

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**the andyman** · 10-11-2007, 05:15 PM

Seems to work fine for me in Firefox, the only thing is that you're replacing all the < > and " characters with the &[x]; values - if you left them as they are within the CDATA tags then they wouldn't break the feed and would actually be parsed. Also, in the guid tags you have http://dotlou.com/post/78 with an extra space at the end instead of http://dotlou.com/post/78/

**.Lou** · 10-11-2007, 09:05 PM

the andyman Wrote:Seems to work fine for me in Firefox, the only thing is that you're replacing all the < > and " characters with the &[x]; values - if you left them as they are within the CDATA tags then they wouldn't break the feed and would actually be parsed. Also, in the guid tags you have http://dotlou.com/post/78 with an extra space at the end instead of http://dotlou.com/post/78/

Both issues have now been fixed (A)

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**the andyman** · 10-12-2007, 05:00 PM

RSS is working (and coded

) well now (Y)