For WD there are about 5 different versions. Some over 3 years old. They all look different, their code is also often very different. You can make serious changes to any of these released and or abandoned versions. Multiple users are doing that and making their own private version of it. And they give their improvements back to the community so others can benefit.
Also this July version will, at its release, contain the css in a separate file. Then anyone can change anything they like.
But this is a beta version
The css is NOT in a separate file as I change it often and I want to have the html/css validated.
My sole focus is to have as much as possible all PHP/HTML/CSS errors removed before final release in July.
If beta-testers are changing the code/css and there is an error it becomes very difficult to pinpoint the error and remove it.
But if you âright-click â inspectâ you can see the css for any object. Removing /changing the border colours is only a one line change.
Thanks for your reply, Wim. And, again thank you for all your work on the project.
I do know and understand ways to inspect and modify elements and code and can track down panel outlines, etc. Just looking for ways to modify the design globally and perhaps more radically to solve the more major design issues with W34. Per your suggestion, I will wait for the final release to take on the final CSS settings.
I sincerely hope that, if you find solutions for these
very important âmore major design issues with W34â,
number of problems with the April verion
important scale-to-use issues of panel contents
the outlines add a huge visual distraction and make the July version a big step backwards from the April version.
the July version is far less readable on computer screens, tablets are particulary phones
and that is a small list from your post
I think you look more as one of those black-hole users, they write long exposes mentioning their briljant decades long work, telling that they only âwant to helpâ , but only mention nothing other then unspecified âproblemsâ.
So I doubt you let other users benefit and give something back to the community.
Checking your posts: none since 2013. Also no links to your briljant graphical designed websites from which we could learn a lot?
Just wasting the time of a programmer who have to read all posts and answer those posts.
Wow. A lof of generalization and assumptions in your reply. Basing your response on my lack of posts on the WXforum and other experiences you may have had with so-called designers are hardly reasons for your unfortunate response. Rather than evaluate the tone and admiration I was expressing about your work, youâve cosen another route. Practically speaking, a short discusion in a weather forum is hardly the place to judge what kind of design skill set, I may or may not have. The point being, you really donât know what Iâm capable of and rather than inquiring, encouragng more input or waiting to find out, instead chose to use the few posts Iâve made on wxforum and focused in on incomplete comments I made as just more snark and from a unqualified, unwilling to help amatuer. Look, since my own weather site has been stable for a long time and I never change it, I rarely visit wxfurm. So, I donât know what kind of problems youâve had with other people but to just generalize and make assumptions about someone you donât know can often lead to wrong conclusions.
The short comments I made about design and UI issues did not offer solutions. In the short term that was not my intention. I would have followed up in more detai, but for now, I just was looking for a simple way to turn off a few details in my own installation that are high up on my list. Itâs important to note that Iâm a designer not a programmer as you are. These are very different roles. As a designer, from experience I know that taking on the larger design issues of both the original and derivative WD34 projects would make for a decent size voluteer project to get involved in. Looking through the project and reading through all the posts and particularly admiring the way youâve gracefully handled various issues, bugs and problems as theyâve come up had built up my interest enough to actually consider volunteering to take on an active role as an experienced designer to help. Now that I have a little more free time, I try to help on various design projects. That the WD34 design is modular and heirical makes serious design changes reasonable. Thereâs plenty of potentional to improve the user experience, particularly on mobile devices. I even showed it to my wife, also a career graphic designer, and she agreed. Anyway, that was this morning. This is now.
At this point, there are a few thiings I suspect that we can agree on: 1) Donât waste any more of your time on this. Keep focused on the excellent and universally appreciated programming and scripting work that youâre doing to make WD34 work on other platforms. 2) This is not the best place for me to volunteer as a graphic designer.
As before, your work is very much appreciated. l wish you the best.
I Have found that gifs invoked by the menu are more responsive on mobile if I remove the â$frm_type[$frame] = âimgâ;â tag from the frames page.
With the img tag in place the gifs are cropped and locked (immovable). Without the img tag images are cropped but movable, to facilitate seeing part of the image off screen on initial display.
You can experience this by checking my menu. The #2 & #3 items in extras âMetro Radarâ & âMetro Radar1â are coded both ways. The drawback is that the images are no longer âcenteredâ on wider formats (PC, or Tablet).
The discussed points in this topic should nearly all be included:
WiFi logger and Weatherlink.exe support
Better handling of menu items
Better nextstorm and weatherflow lightning support
Improved notifications
I think I will roll-out the July release as early as June 21. My wife and I planned our vacation for the last two weeks of July.
Gives you and me three full weeks to check if there are no new errors creeping up.
Wim,
I have downloaded the latest version. You can see it at https://www.shermanctweather.org/pwsTEST/
Itâs working fine for me. Getting easier to setup.
Thanks for all the hard work youâve put into this.
Tom
I downloaded the beta template, but I canât set it up on my site as it is asking for a password. Previously, with the first installation, you could leave the password blank to enter âeasyweahtersetup.phpâ, then once on that page you could setup your password. Is there an initial password that we are to use for the beta template??
I noticed that all pop-up charts showing âTodayâ data show 24 hr time, though the rest of the site shows 12 hr time (as per my selection). Not sure if that is easy to fix globally or not.
I do not understand. There is no âBelgianâ language
@all For non-Belgians, I try to explain:
We âBelgiansâ use as language either Dutch, French or German, but we are all Belgian with 1 Belgian flag.
Same as Canadians who use English or French with 1 Canadian flag.
In the settings the website-owner selects the default language and he/she can remove the language selection from the menu also.
if allowed by the website owner, website visitors can, in the menu, select a language. IMHO that should not be switched off for Belgian websites.
In the bottom area the country flag is displayed which is different from the language for Belgium and for a lot of multi language countries also. The country flags are there for all countries who do not âownâ the language, such as Canada for English and French.
To not make a new easyweather-setup entry every time, I decided to have 1 extra code for those countries like Belgium or Canada.
@on4rm
Feel free to modify the scripts and enhance as you like. It is your website.
But posting / discussing without a link to your website makes it difficult to see the differences.
I did not include the âroundâ option, nor the ânobordersâ option in yesterdays download.
I did today, so if interested, download again http://wd34.weather-template.com/beta.php
Those two choices can now be set in the easyweather but they remain for fast testing as URL-params also.
P.S. With âround no bordersâ (the left part of three in the image) it looks more similar to the april release.
The middle part is the default setting. The right part has only the borders removed from the texts.
Oh yes, and consider 80% less time to add or change the blocks.
NO CSS differences at all when switching between light or dark theme
An extra theme to make your own colour scheme, even an ugly kind of green http://wd34.weather-template.com/pws07/?theme=user
I am a programmer and will continue to add functionality to assist the users with basic programming skills.
So they can make their own different version exactly as they want it, including adding new blocks.
But to do that I had to switch from âJan/Aprilâ-code to this version.