By krymp on
I am creating this site in tribute to Steve Jobs, http://www.ithankstevejobs.com/
I want people to post a message in that area that says "iThank Steve Jobs because..."
I am trying to create a view and just pull that text block and post button out of it. My problem is that I don't see in the views UI on how to add only those 2 fields.
Am I doing it the correct way by creating a block view and just showing those 2 fields. If so, how can I show those the text block for user input and the post button only.
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What module creates the
What module creates the textarea?
That is what I am looking to
That is what I am looking to do. What is currently up there now is basic static html fields. I want to know how to make that dynamic possibly pulling from the comment form as found on here: http://www.ithankstevejobs.com/content/share-your-message-title#comment-...
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I really can't help since I'm opposed to celebrity worship. I wish you the best but you really should reevaluate your priorities in life.
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But I will tell you that you have a typo right on the home page:
"Share why you are thankful to Steve Jobs about the innovations and advacnces he made for you & the world."
Advances.
It also looks a bit awkward the way you have everything in a small column with all the extra space on the right. Then, as you scroll down, everything shifts to the right side and everything is cut off.
I think it would be a good idea to have the "iThank Steve Jobs becasue..." above the comment form because people might think you can edit that. Also, why not "for" instead of "because" due to the fact people might want to say, "iThank Steve Jobs for creating a device where I can waste all day flinging birds at green pigs." Maybe "iThank Steve Jobs..." might be better to leave the rest up to the user.
One last comment, you use the same image of jobs where there are a plethora available and you could easily improve the site with a few more visuals especially since you seem to want more images of Jobs but just default to the same one.
Again, thank you for the
Again, thank you for the feedback. This is an incomplete site, and I would rather get it working before I do the final QA.
I will take all these consideration and update the site based on user feedback, but right now the site is useless if it doesn't work.
I think it's a great idea to hear both sides , positives and negatives. I am a designer who uses pc's to create the designs. So I am in no way an Apple Fanboy, but I use Apples iPhone and love the device.
If you can help lead me on how to get comments, that would be great. I can open this up to all types of people wants to leave their remarks about Steve Jobs. Would be interesting to see if people truly appreciated his work or is it the Apple Fanboys that only support him. I personally think Johnathan Ives is the true creator behind the Apple brands!
I am sorry you feel like he
I am sorry you feel like he is a celebrity. I think of him more as an innovator, much on the lines that Walt Disney, Edison were. I only wanted people to have a place to virtually thank him for the ways he touch our lives. Before the iPod, I used to carry around a discman with a wallet that held 20 cds and about 200 songs.
Also if this site worked, you could have left a message about how you felt, I don't want to only hear the good positive ones, but also the negatives.
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Why don't you make the front page a blog or article entry, hiding the submitted by, enabling comments, and using a theme to accomplish the rest.
Then you could style the blog title to mimic your current HTML or just make that an image if need be with the Apple log. Then hide the comments on your theme, and render the view instead. Then use CSS to style the comments. You could even use php to print "iThank Steve Jobs becasue..." before every comment is displayed. Or, even easier, just use a custom text field in your view that says the same thing and it will display that field above each comment.
I don't think I would even involve a contributed module to accomplish this as it could easily be done the way mentioned above.
I tried making the Front page
I tried making the Front page use an article, but this method cannot be done because all I want to show on this page is the Comment input fields and Save input button, I simply cannot hide the rest such as permalink, submitted, date, label, etc. as you see on here: www.ithankstevejobs.com/content/share-your-message-title
When I custom the Content Type Page (which is page--node--6.tpl.php)
I basically strip it down to a clean file, with this line:
print render($page['content']);This seem so simple to do, am I missing some step...
I just want to have 1 page with a comment field the user can enter text into and then hits submit.
I will then build the views to display the results on other pages, but I need to move on past step 1
Why use comments, why not
Why use comments, why not just use a content type?
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That's probably a better way to do it considering the recent requirements.