HWS-template (WD34) beta test July version

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.

Thanks again!

I sincerely hope that, if you find solutions for these

  1. very important “more major design issues with W34”,
  2. number of problems with the April verion
  3. important scale-to-use issues of panel contents
  4. the outlines add a huge visual distraction and make the July version a big step backwards from the April version.
  5. 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 “want to help” , but only mention nothing other then unspecified “problems”.

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.

Wim

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, you’ve 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 don’t know what I’m capable of and rather than inquiring, encouragng more input or waiting to find out, instead chose to use the few posts I’ve 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 don’t know what kind of problems you’ve had with other people but to just generalize and make assumptions about someone you don’t 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. It’s important to note that I’m 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 you’ve gracefully handled various issues, bugs and problems as they’ve 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. There’s 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) Don’t waste any more of your time on this. Keep focused on the excellent and universally appreciated programming and scripting work that you’re 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 “$frm_type[$frame] = ‘img’;” 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 “Metro Radar” & “Metro Radar1” are coded both ways. The drawback is that the images are no longer “centered” on wider formats (PC, or Tablet).

This was on Android:
Samsung S8

@weatherola
you might have caught Wim at a bad time
hang in there :slight_smile:

Thank you :D, I overlooked this one when making the scripts responsive

The code for the image was

<img src="https://sirocco.accuweather.com/nx_mosaic_640x480_public/sir/inmasirmr_msp.gif" height="480"
    alt="metro_radar1" style="max-width: 950px; margin: 0 auto;">              

The code should have been

<img src="https://sirocco.accuweather.com/nx_mosaic_640x480_public/sir/inmasirmr_msp.gif" 
    alt="metro_radar1" style="max-width: 950px; margin: 0 auto; height: 480px;">

The height=“480” on the item makes it non-responsive and adds scrollbars.

Wil change the script after further testing, attach a screenshot how it “had to” look

Wim


A new beta version can be downloaded => http://wd34.weather-template.com/beta.php

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.

Again, thanks for all the feedback, :smiley:
Wim


Wim,
I have downloaded the latest version. You can see it at https://www.shermanctweather.org/pwsTEST/
It’s working fine for me. Getting easier to setup.
Thanks for all the hard work you’ve put into this.
Tom

I downloaded the beta template, but I can’t 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 “easyweahtersetup.php”, then once on that page you could setup your password. Is there an initial password that we are to use for the beta template??

here is the link: Easyweather setup

The initial password is “12345”

You better get on there and change it, because anyone can enter your setup as it is now, using “12345”.

Thanks!!!

Very cool. I got my beta station working.

www.rrogers.us/pws07

Beta works great,

Thanks Wim

Wim,

Just an FYI.

I noticed that all pop-up charts showing “Today” 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.

Thanks

Will be fine to include Belgium selection in the setup with the correct flag. Attached the little update.
Regards
Roland


w34_menu.zip (4.95 KB)

I do not understand. There is no “Belgian” language

@all For non-Belgians, I try to explain:
We “Belgians” 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 “own” 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.

Wim

I did not include the “round” option, nor the “noborders” 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.

square + borders: http://wd34.weather-template.com/pws07/
round + borders: http://wd34.weather-template.com/pws07/?round
round no borders: http://wd34.weather-template.com/pws07/?round&noborders
square no borders: http://wd34.weather-template.com/pws07/?noborders

Wim

P.S. With “round no borders” (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.


I could get to like that :slight_smile:

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

To test how a wide setup (3 extra blocks to the right) looks when the blocks are added as an extra row:
http://wd34.weather-template.com/pws07/?tall

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 “Jan/April”-code to this version.

Wim

Hi, all

Works like a charm here! The no borders look is fine with me!

http://www.akker.be/pwsTEST/

Staccermaccer,

Just noticed a Heat Warning…!!


heat_caution.png