Post your Shift screenshots!

[Simon Veteran]

There's a new kid in town on the Shift CC: Screenshots!

There's been a good bit of demand for a screenshot section, and with this category, we have a way to get an unlimited* number of screenshots up, and then the Shift admins can pick and choose the ones to go on the upcoming screenshot section for the front page.

I'm just going to ask that you post the version number in the description, and put the screenshot in the appropriate subcategory. Also, please use the same image for the preview as you do for the actual screenshot, but scale it down to a smaller size first. I'll have a little bit of code in place to do this for you later on tonight.

This joins a number of changes that have come to the Shift website today, including the removal of the dev blog (because it was underused and broken anyway, it may return in the coming days/weeks), the combination of the "What is Shift?" and "FAQ" pages into a single "About Shift" page, and an up-to-date downloads page. A category with subcategories now displays everything from within the subcategories on the CC, as well.

* Don't go over the top, though, we don't need our server filled to the brim with screenshots.

Edited August 24, 2007 by simon360

[hopp58902 Member]

Liking it! Will post the screens I made...I'm having a problem staying logged in though, I log in and it takes me to the home page, when I go to the Art, I'm no longer logged in.

[Fish]

... Same here...

[Simon Veteran]

Yeah, you have to be at http://www.shiftlinux.net/art/index.php in order for it to work. I've figured this out and I'm working on a fix... anyone know what I should do?

[war]

I'll be glad to fix all these below for you if you wish... Just need ftp access to site... I'm turst worthy. Besides just backup complete site beforehand.

First before you tackle that problem you need to remove index.php from the tabs for Home, About Shift, and download Download.

Change them in order to:

http://www.shiftlinux.net/

http://www.shiftlinux.net/about/

http://www.shiftlinux.net/download/

Art tab is missing a "/" at end of URL. And you need the www.

Change:

http://shiftlinux.net/art

To:

http://www.shiftlinux.net/art/

The Download RC1 button should also be changed to http://www.shiftlinux.net/download/ .

Once all the URLs are friendly then go about fixing the login problem. Might even fix it self. Normally does, if you coded the login correct.

And when you login drop the ?ticket=137c3e76a9247583edac197449eae3df from the url. Thats just nasty and un-user friendly...

Credits Button on bottom left on page should be changed to http://www.shiftlinux.net/credits/ .

RSS button should be simply http://www.shiftlinux.net/rss/

The art contest should be at http://www.shiftlinux.net/art/contest/ . Drop the .php crap...

Not only do all of these fixes make it easy for users to navigate and remember page URLs but it makes it a lot easier for search engines as well. Will get a higher google page rank for example....

Update:

Um ok the site needs a bit more work than I thought... You really need to take advantage of .htaccess with mod rewrite. You need to use friendly URLs for all news articles (including the more buttons).

For example Shift Linux 0.5 (RC-1) Is Released is currently http://www.shiftlinux.net/index.php?page=n...l&newsid=48 and it should be something like:

http://www.shiftlinux.net/articles/2007/08...hiftLinux05RC1/

or just:

ttp://www.shiftlinux.net/articles/ShiftLinux05RC1/

Think the first example is best since it makes it even better for search engines but the second is easier for users to figure out. So perhaps the second one is better for this site...

Again can be easily done with mod rewrite...

Edited August 26, 2007 by war

[war]

Yeah, you have to be at http://www.shiftlinux.net/art/index.php in order for it to work. I've figured this out and I'm working on a fix... anyone know what I should do?

No it's a simple cookie problem. You just need the www in the URL because cookies for the site require the www. It's that simple... You just have to change the url to include the www and force users to always use the www, it's simple to do once again with mod rewrite...

[hopp58902 Member]

Hey, I got my way around by adding the www manually, and I uploaded some screenshots, check 'em out!