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by smorty71

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Just wanted to let everyone know that we will be rolling out our latest updates tomorrow instead of today. The President's Day holiday pushed us back a day.

As for the features, we will be launching the People page which will allow you to search for members by username, interest and technologies.

There will also be a new avatar library that members can use instead of a photo. We will launch with 70 images and add more periodically.

Finally, we are adding a new community nav bar along the top of the pages (just under the ad at the top). It will provide links to Discussions, Technical Q&A and People as well as all of the "my" pages (profile, discussions, questions and contacts). This is the first step in unifying the look-and-feel of all of the community features.

Let me know if you all have any questions or comments. Thanks,
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by oz_media

Hopefully the new nav bar will include TECH Questions, Downloads, quoestions, contacts and THEN discussions. Perhaps people won't keep using the first link they see that represents all other Technical Q&A forums, 'Discussions'.

After ALL the times we have discussed link placement/naming as a major issue for misposting, don't tell me the SAME ineffective layout will be repeated?!

by smorty71

Oz,
The navbar I am referring to will be within Community pages (Discussions, TQ&A, People) only. It won't deal with the global site nav bar.

The reason we're adding the Community one is to make it easier to move between Discussions, TQ&A and People pages. Even though the links to Discussions and TQ&A are at the very top of the page, it seems like a lot of work to go up and click them once you're already within the Discussions or Profile area.

These links will hopefully increase the number of people who notice TQ&A from within Discussions, too.

It should also make it easier to access all of the areas of your profile like my discussions, my questions and my contacts.

BTW, there is a separate initiative to tackle the site navigation issues that we are all aware of.

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by oz_media

I like the new links actually, at first I though it was a relative positioning issue as the 'gap' is about the same width as the right pane. But now I see the benefits.

I am not too fond of the ORDER in the 'People' page though, do you not think an Alphabetical list wouldbe easier fo ruser to search through. I am not as interested in seeing what the most popular interests are as opposed to finding peope who share interest in a specific topic, which is virtually impossible without the alphabetical list.

In case you haven't considered it yet, if you ALT tag all of those links and submit it to search engines you will get great positioning, if you don't add too many Meta keyword's of course.

I actually just finished reviewing somestats for another company and was comparing th edifferences to a competitors page that was getting top Google ranks, http://www.craiglist.org

The craig list has ALT tags for ALL those links! Quite a lot of work but it is really effective as it is well balanced with their title and meta tags, Google seems to LOVE it.

I'd still like to see you add a small reminder on the post pages 'to ask a technical question 'click here'

(or for our French-Canadian peers).

Questionne technical to ask, click ear :)

by oz_media

We must extend our thanks to the US for presidents day. I was supposed to go and do some work but got to go to the races instead when the Canadian company had 'heritage day' to represent the US president's day. They are a Canadian company (unionized) that had all the union members complain that US union members (same union) had an extra day off each year.

So to keep the days off equal between Canadian and US union branchesm they created Heritage Day, so that the Canadian employees had a day off too.

So on behalf of myself, and all those who work for the union, thank you and I hope you all enjoyed president's day! I know I enjoyed Heritage Day. :)

by willcomp

In this area, banks and government offices are about the only employers that close for President's Day. So you're welcome even if I and most other US citizens worked anyway.

Oh, I forgot. I'm self-employed. I can just take off any old time. Yeah sure!

Dalton

by oz_media

The same union operates in Canada and the US. Until about 8 years ago, US members ofo the same union were getting an extra day off with pay every year, which at union rates can equate to a nice chunk of change, especially at $30-40/hr.

The Union went on a bender and the rules were changed, though may companies here have unions that simply aren't recognized, no shopsetwaard or union rep on staff etc. These will often lose out. Those that are active in the union, will puch their union reps to get the company to comply.

In my client's case, they have a union steward in the company for ensuring union employees don't get treated like the non-union employees that work there.

This is a compnay that can't even fire someone without first seeking union approval to do so. If they DO fire someone and it wasn't for a REALLY condemning reason, they will be paying his/her $40.00/hr until the union PLACES then at another company.

Many companies here are part of a union, but a few are very strict in union participation and the union simply has it's way with the company.

by hal 9000

He will not allow you any sick days, public holidays are for doing routine maintenance or paper work, Holidays are an unknown thing and are unknowable, The week end is for more routine maintains unless you get a call out for a breakdown and the worst thing is you can not complain about just how badly you are treated by your Boss.

That about covers it doesn't it?

My Boss is exactly the same perhaps we should form a union to protect ourselves from ourselves. ;)

Col ]:)

by willcomp

Don't think we'd have much pull. I'm not complaining though, rather like the situation.

Primary thrust of comment was that Presidents Day is not a widely recognized holiday in US. Since it's a federal holiday, government offices and banks close but not much else.

Strong unions can negotiate their own holidays. Most businesses would rather give extra days for major holidays (e.g. Christmas) or flexible days (birthday) off. Less impact on operations.

Dalton

by oz_media

And I'm not paying my dues!

Funny though, while reading your post I was thinking, GEE that sounds like YOUR boss, Colin!

by hal 9000

A real Mongrel I have a game where I beat the living daylights out of him to blow off a bit of steam when he allows me the time. ;)

The wife is even worse as I brought her a 1973 Mercedes Coupe which she tells everyone is her car and then expects me to pay for the spares to rebuild it. It's actually in very good condition and only needs a few "Very Expensive Cosmetic" things all of which I get to pay for this week alone it's only cost me a set of tires and a rear screen seal about 1/2 the price of the tires which I had put on it. Now she's cracking the whip to have the seal fitted so at 3.45 AM yesterday I pulled off the chrome surrounds and hid them when she got up she didn't see these missing at first and when I eventually got up I asked her had she been out to have a look at her car. She replied "OF COURSE WHAT DO YOU TAKE ME FOR?" So I just asked when she had removed the chrome surrounds on the rear screen? And ducked really fast! ;)

Col ]:)

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