[JG]

I've installed the Module for PHP-Nuke HOWTOO, the full 16plus megs for present.

As you said Chris, need to make some color adjustments for my Black/White theme.

1. The Table of Contents is white on white as is the terms of dist. boarder; and the HELP US MAKE A BETTER PHP-Nuke HOWTO! since the white on green is visible, it does not stand out. The indexing shows OK.

2. The translator works beautifully, and actual converts the entire site, as well as the docs.

3. One Bug so far, working on on the front end of the docs, is the "List of Figures." They come back with a FILE NOT FOUND, The Request URL was not found on this server! and a Security Alert Certificate problem. That's on all of them.

3a Link:http://www.johngaltaisa.com/frontend.html#FIG-HOMEPAGE

4. Figures are coming up OK, if not clear in the text within the pic areas.

5. There are a host of links, that will take me some time to list, that are giving me the same FILE NOT FOUND error, when I select from the Table of Contents. Not all of them, but a great number of them.

5a Link:http://www.johngaltaisa.com/installation-process.html#AEN1202

6 Was there some use or purpose for the zipped file EN-Book.ps in the download module?? These files can't be accessed from the HOWTO Module, so are they included to put up for DL?? I also can't determine which of these files is the actual final version, as they are not (TEXT INFO) the same in content. My guess is the PDF file?

6a
EN-Book 193KB HTML Document
EN-Book.lyx 196KB LYX File
EN-Book 1,780KB Adobe Acrobat Doc...
EN-Book.ps 1,590KB WinZip File
EN-Book 270KB Rich Text Format
EN-Book.sgml 193KB SGML File
EN-Book 145KB Text Document

I'd like to make some suggestions for improvement, if we are to in fact improve the docs. One would be taking that link to the forums here, more direct instead of to the homepage/forum, and directly to the HOWTO Topic.

Could we not use this for a link:
http://www.karakas-online.de/forum/viewforum.php?f=1

Let me go test some more and I'll add in some other thoughts, but boy it's a slick piece of work

I'm now on getting this plastered from one end of Nukesville to the other. You up for a little additional 'comeuppance'
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[chris]

JG, I am very grateful to you for pointing all this out!

I will come back with a more detailed answer, but for the moment let me say that yes, probably you are right on all points!

<< Chris goes check with his scripts. Pray for him.
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Chris Karakas
www.karakas-online.de

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[JG]

Ok, quick answer (I hope) regarding the 'cage' approach, or 'direct' to the forum.

With it on my site for example, the user has no option to DL any of the formats, unless we make a notation, they are in MY download section for off-line use, or you add it in as you did here within the EN Book itself. Then those files I just sent up packed with the 'module' could be obtained.

Using the 'cage' approach, he could get to the DL's at your site, but would need to do more work to get to them. It also provides him with other areas of interest he may want to see here.

So, if the intent is to provide, input for an 'improved' version, the direct approach seems to be the answer. Plus those File Formats, wouldn't need to be in the module, and it can be streamlined down a bit. HD space can be a major consideration for some Web Sites with limited megs from the host.

Then am I to look at it from a Webmasters view trying to put up my site and make some changes, or a user who needs help, or both.

Just batting out some (bit tired) thoughts.

Also, consider the exposer you 'were' getting regarding the HOWTO Module on one major site, has ceased to exist, or the option for it's intended use, for improvements.

I for one do not presently have a user base, that would be of any help, as I've not finished up my site to my satisfaction, and submitted it as yet.

So someone with some exposer, needs to have it online. Perhaps Nuke Forums, or one or more of the bigger sites for users.. I think you see where I'm going here. By the way, who is the webmaster their? It was not clear.

Note: DO you have the file up, that does not have the dupe., directory? I did strip mine and re-packed it.
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[chris]

Quick answer again.

The download links in the Formats section should point to *locally* available files. If the site that hosts the module does not want to provide them, they can just erase the .pdf, .ps.gz, .rtf, .sgml, .txt, .lyx versions at their sole discretion. I have no problem with that.

There is an error in my scripts that breaks those links, otherwise you would click on the PDF link and would get the locally stored PDF - I think a nice idea for people who

- want a PDF (PS, RTF, TXT or whatever) version and

- don't want or should not leave the Nuke site they are currently visiting.

That the user can get the files from my site, this is stated in the "Availability of sources" section - and that's enough, I think.

I leave it to the community to install or not install the module on their sites. Their decision.

The module has 12MB of duplicate images. That's why it takes so much space when extracted. The new module will take only a few Megs of space. Deleting unwanted versions like RTF (with all .bmp images from the images subdirectory), or PS will leave you with a really small disk footprint.

I'll upload a new version of the module "soon". Check this space for announcements.
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Chris Karakas
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[JG]

[chris]

I have just uploaded an updated version of the PHP-Nuke HOWTO module. It fixes a number of bugs:

[chris]

Ideally, we should have a different ck-style.css stylesheet for every standard PHP-Nuke theme. If you create one for your theme, please send it to me.
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Chris Karakas
www.karakas-online.de

[JG]

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