Adding a demonstration website and/or screenshot

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Are you referring to the smilies? Is it possible that you posted this in the wrong spot? Or am I missing something?

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Setting up your own test site on a local machine or in a subdomain of your host is a good idea for testing modules.

Oh, I get it now. Thank you.

In my case I was browsing by category to discover cool Drupal modules. So when I check 100 module pages per hour, it would be really great to have a demonstration site and a screenshot on the front page. 'Node Preview' or 'Comment Preview' in the description could mean anything.

I don't disagree that it would be helpful but I don't believe it would be practical for every module to have a demo site. First because of resources. Second because not all modules are user facing. Settings screens in admin areas aren't user facing either. I believe it is far more practical for users to set up test sites rather than developers to set up demo sites.

In this case a screenshot would have made the module clear to me in 2 secs. Would have been easy with Mozilla's Screengrab. It is still a request, not a pointing finger.

But I agree with you. Not everybody has the resources and a lot of the modules run in admin environments in case of demo sites.

Cheers and have a great weekend,
Danny

Well, you know how easy that is? It's so easy you can do it yourself!
Additions of peripheral information like this are the easiest things for non-developers to contribute to help projects document themselves. In the time spent talking about how it should have a screenshot (agreed!) I could spend 3 minutes and prepare that screenshot and say "Hey, how about you put a link to THIS on the project page!"

Or even better:

I'm very sorry about the direction this topic has led to. I never expected to open up a barrel of frustrations. I'll try to think twice next time I post something like that. Next time I encounter a project page of a module that I'm familiar with, I'll consider posting a screenshot in the issue queue.

Nah, the question was obviously valid, the naming is vague and a screenshot was clearly a good addition.
I'm just pointing out that I agree with what you said about a screenshot being easy to do ...
And contributing one - to a project I know nothing about either - was an easy demonstration of how folk can contribute where they see it needed.
Leading by example ;-)

Oh ok, that's cool. I agree with you.

Well crafted screenshot, by the way. :)

Added last screen shot to project page. Interesting enthusiasm here.

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