Author Topic: Another Tony job!  (Read 14912 times)

Offline Tony

  • Administrator
  • Oil baron
  • *******
  • Posts: 5114
  • Fo' shizzle, biodizzle
    • Southampton Waste Oil Collection
  • Location: Southampton
Re: Another Tony job!
« Reply #30 on: January 14, 2011, 11:33:00 PM »
OK, I've had a go.

If you check Main page 2 there are some category headings I've put things in, and been through pages to add to these categories.

But what I did observe was that if you put something in an existing category it didn't appear automatically on Main page 2 - I had to edit and re-submit Main page 2 without any changes for them to appear.  This isn't quite what we were hoping for!

Offline Julian

  • Administrator
  • Oil baron
  • *******
  • Posts: 6391
    • Used Cooking Oil Collection website
  • Location: East Surrey, UK.
Re: Another Tony job!
« Reply #31 on: January 15, 2011, 12:53:07 PM »
Hmm, I thought there was something a little screwy when I first played with it but couldn't work out what but it seemed to work in the end, well done for spotting it.

Might be worth pointing it out to the guy who wrote it, he may be able to fix it in a new version.  Even with that known bug it could still prove a time saver.  Easer to click edit then page on main page than manually add pages to an index.  If a couple of us did it as a matter of course on every visit we could be sure it was updated until a fix is offered.

I'd say lets go ahead, if visitors can't navigate easily all the effort put into writing pages is rather negated.

Do we want to go for just a few general categories or many, more specific ones?  Personally I'd go for a few general because if we ever reach the dizzy situation of many contributors, it will be clearer how a page should be categorised.
Used Cooking Oil Collection website ... http://www.surreyusedcookingoilcollection.palmergroup.co.uk

Offline Julian

  • Administrator
  • Oil baron
  • *******
  • Posts: 6391
    • Used Cooking Oil Collection website
  • Location: East Surrey, UK.
Re: Another Tony job!
« Reply #32 on: January 16, 2011, 12:42:56 PM »
I was looking at tables last night and found that collapsible tables are possible, a bit like drop down menus, which might be useful in navigation.

I tried the code but it doesn't seem to work on our wiki.  Vaguely understand that it's driven from the CSS style sheet so I think what ever drives it is missing.  Details are under "Collapsible tables" about 2/3 the way down the page on the link I've left on Main page 2.

Anyone any thoughts?
Used Cooking Oil Collection website ... http://www.surreyusedcookingoilcollection.palmergroup.co.uk

Offline Tony

  • Administrator
  • Oil baron
  • *******
  • Posts: 5114
  • Fo' shizzle, biodizzle
    • Southampton Waste Oil Collection
  • Location: Southampton
Re: Another Tony job!
« Reply #33 on: January 16, 2011, 10:57:03 PM »
Agree on a few categories but not to go crazy just yet :)

As for the collapsible ones - I'll take a look into that tomorrow hopefully.  Looks tricky to understand.

Offline Julian

  • Administrator
  • Oil baron
  • *******
  • Posts: 6391
    • Used Cooking Oil Collection website
  • Location: East Surrey, UK.
Re: Another Tony job!
« Reply #34 on: January 16, 2011, 11:15:15 PM »
I've only dabbled with CSS, but I think the  class="wikitable"  bit refers the browser to the style sheet where the code to make it work should be.  There's quite a lot of reading here:    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css    most of which goes over my head.

I don't think the styles can be put on the page easily, if at all, as the text box we edit isn't the true code for the page.

I'll have a think and suggest some categories for the main page.
Used Cooking Oil Collection website ... http://www.surreyusedcookingoilcollection.palmergroup.co.uk

Offline Julian

  • Administrator
  • Oil baron
  • *******
  • Posts: 6391
    • Used Cooking Oil Collection website
  • Location: East Surrey, UK.
Re: Another Tony job!
« Reply #35 on: January 18, 2011, 02:13:52 AM »
Ok, these are my suggestions for categories …

Biodiesel

Introduction to Biodiesel
Ingredients & regulations
Processes
Safety
Equipment and processors
Testing


Veg oil

Introduction to veg oil use
Collection & regulations
Filtration & drying equipment
Testing
Vehicle modifications
Suitable vehicle list
Used Cooking Oil Collection website ... http://www.surreyusedcookingoilcollection.palmergroup.co.uk

Offline Tony

  • Administrator
  • Oil baron
  • *******
  • Posts: 5114
  • Fo' shizzle, biodizzle
    • Southampton Waste Oil Collection
  • Location: Southampton
Re: Another Tony job!
« Reply #36 on: January 18, 2011, 08:30:34 AM »
Looks good to me.  Process should probably have sub cats (preparation, process, finishing) just so we can make sure it appears in a logical order when listed.

Offline Julian

  • Administrator
  • Oil baron
  • *******
  • Posts: 6391
    • Used Cooking Oil Collection website
  • Location: East Surrey, UK.
Re: Another Tony job!
« Reply #37 on: January 18, 2011, 11:40:34 AM »
See your point, but I thought we'd decided not use subcategories.  Making them all main cats might make too many so how about ...


Move regs to Intro then have ...

Biodiesel

Introduction to Biodiesel
Ingredients and preparation
Processing methods
Processors and equipment
Finishing
Safety and Testing


Veg oil

Introduction to veg oil use
Collection & regulations
Filtration & drying equipment
Testing
Vehicle modifications
Vehicle suitability list

Paul ... as our only active veg user what do you think of the veg oil menu?
Used Cooking Oil Collection website ... http://www.surreyusedcookingoilcollection.palmergroup.co.uk

Offline Julian

  • Administrator
  • Oil baron
  • *******
  • Posts: 6391
    • Used Cooking Oil Collection website
  • Location: East Surrey, UK.
Re: Another Tony job!
« Reply #38 on: January 21, 2011, 06:09:21 PM »
Bump.


Anybody??
« Last Edit: January 21, 2011, 11:16:55 PM by Julian »
Used Cooking Oil Collection website ... http://www.surreyusedcookingoilcollection.palmergroup.co.uk

Offline Tony

  • Administrator
  • Oil baron
  • *******
  • Posts: 5114
  • Fo' shizzle, biodizzle
    • Southampton Waste Oil Collection
  • Location: Southampton
Re: Another Tony job!
« Reply #39 on: January 24, 2011, 03:59:54 PM »
Apologies for being a bit scarce on here, life seems to be overtaking me at the moment!

Looks good to me though Julian

Offline Julian

  • Administrator
  • Oil baron
  • *******
  • Posts: 6391
    • Used Cooking Oil Collection website
  • Location: East Surrey, UK.
Re: Another Tony job!
« Reply #40 on: January 25, 2011, 12:34:13 AM »
Ok, that's good.  Chug's not been around for a few days, but he agreed the format earlier in the post and no one else has commented so I recon we ought to go ahead.  I'll try and make a start in the bio section from "A" down.  If you feel inclined or get a chance to lend a hand how about you start at "Z" and work up. That way we won't be treading on each others toes!
Used Cooking Oil Collection website ... http://www.surreyusedcookingoilcollection.palmergroup.co.uk

Offline Chug

  • Administrator
  • Oil obsessive
  • *****
  • Posts: 787
  • Location: Herts
Re: Another Tony job!
« Reply #41 on: January 25, 2011, 09:00:20 AM »
Yeah, same as tone, I've been out hussling for cash recently as I need another car so I've not been around much either, only checked in here now as I'm waiting in for a phone call about an engine I'm selling, hope to slow down soon.

Offline Julian

  • Administrator
  • Oil baron
  • *******
  • Posts: 6391
    • Used Cooking Oil Collection website
  • Location: East Surrey, UK.
Re: Another Tony job!
« Reply #42 on: January 29, 2011, 09:09:38 PM »
Ok, bullet bitten!

Hope it's ok 'cos  I don't fancy changing it all back.

I left off the suitable vehicle category from the veg section as there's nothing to populate it at present.

I think its' an improvement, we just have to remember to click edit and save each time a new page is added.  I'll add a not to that effect on the creating pages page.
Used Cooking Oil Collection website ... http://www.surreyusedcookingoilcollection.palmergroup.co.uk

Offline Tony

  • Administrator
  • Oil baron
  • *******
  • Posts: 5114
  • Fo' shizzle, biodizzle
    • Southampton Waste Oil Collection
  • Location: Southampton
Re: Another Tony job!
« Reply #43 on: January 29, 2011, 09:18:16 PM »
Julian, thank god!  It's bloody brilliant mate  ;D

Looooong overdue that was.

Don't forget to take a backup tomorrow after the automated archiving goes through at 4am.