[gigaenvy]

Originally Posted by yotsume

All fields have text... but self explaining not a chance! I asked a question and you ignored it completely!

What goes in the small and big image fields please! An example of what goes in these fields in the descriptions is TRUE self explaining!

The descriptions are poor English at best.

I think Phalynx needs to give an "e.g." statement under each field entry. The install/upgrade docs need serious rework. In one sentence it say's:

"By using custom styles you should have in mind that you also must copy the images to the correct directory of the style, thats mostly under "/designs/" or "/styles/". "

then in another it states

"1. Copy ALL (I mean ALL - That is a common error!) files from upload_via_ftp/ to the server. Espacially take care of the images, copy them to your style misc folder if you use a customized style."

Then another problem, realizing this is still beta (but worked in version 3.8.3 without any edits), is the default awards. The filenames are wrong. I had to put the entire path to get the default and basic activity award to show up in /xperience/awards folder. The filenames by default are wrong compared to v3.8.3. It's frustrating to manually makes edits to get things to work that should work the same in prior version. You fix or add one feature and it breaks something else that worked perfectly, like basic filenames and paths for default awards.

Then I find this, but being a keyboard tuner, I'm not sure if this is wrong to begin with:

<span class="smallfont" style="float:$stylevar[right]"><img border="0" src="$vboptions[bburl]/xperience/images/award_$awardname" title="$awardtitle" /></span>

There are no files in the /images folder that begins with "award" as part of the base install. *He thinks he's interpreting this correctly*

It's beta, yeah I know, but give a guy a break and consider your customer. The worst is when you think your customer will know what to do and you think you think everyone understands, but you're a coder and probably assumes too much of your user base. Don't do that because 9 pages of ????????'s should send off an alarm that your soft skills and ability to convey explanation to get to the root cause of these 9 pages can be circumvented easily by properly documenting and adding some valuable tool tips in the option fields. The outcome will be more time for yourself and not having to answer what I am sure is stupid questions to you.

I'm still trying to figure out what "Rich" username means :erm:

But don't listen to me, because I'll lurk and ask stupid questions when the obvious is not clear and there continues to be contradiction and error wherever I see it. This is my favorite mod, so I have no other life than to watch this unfold and to see it make it primetime.