Posts by Brian Flad

11)

Message boards : Web site : New Docking@Home Website

( Message 4712 )
Posted 3129 days ago by

Cori,
We need to be sure that the old logos are still accessible from a web page, they where with us since we started this effort and they deserve to be here too.

I'll be happy to put up the old logos again. Credit where credit is due! I'll get this up tomorrow evening.

Matthias and Conan,
Now you should be able to find out the type of result and workunit

Thanks for fixing this Trilce. :)

Paul,
Its a good observation, lets Brian to address your concern

It's actually not as bad as you might think at the current time. Most of the new website is wrapped around the new CSS file and header information. I've had to make very few changes to the underlying BOINC include files (to support multiple directories, display the news, etc).

Most of the changes are going to be rewriting the forms/pages to make them more user friendly (I personally strongly dislike the "Unable to handle request" error handling / see the create account form for what I think is better for handling bad submissions) and actually use function calls rather than the spaghetti code (Model/View/Controller all together) that's in there now. I'll be more than happy to answer more concerns about this at a later time.

Peter,
Thank you, the guys and girls in the redesign team put a lot of effort. Now Brian is conducting the migration and he is also working hard.

We appreciate the compliments, thank you. :)

J2satx
That script is old and inaccurate, it would need some major changes

Ahh yes. This one is pretty nasty. This actually runs off the original BOINC include files (and a couple deep I might add). I can go ahead and fix it, but I consider it low priority (and plus it means me editing the old BOINC include files, which I'm trying to avoid if possible).

That's all for now. Keep the comments/suggestions/bugs/requests coming please!

~Brian

12)

Message boards : Web site : New Docking@Home Website

( Message 4699 )
Posted 3130 days ago by

Brian Flad

Hey Everyone,

I'm Brian, one of the students who worked on the website redesign and the person responsible for the implementation. As you can see, we spent quite a few hours working with the old website, user requests, staff requests, and some usability research to create the new, unified design. Hopefully you like it!

You should know that the code base is much different from the standard BOINC code/templates. So expect to find oddball bugs in various places (especially with forms, I need to rewrite a lot of them still).

Please feel free to post comments/suggestions/bugs/feature requests to this thread.

~Brian