I cleaned up the public (to members) and private profiles for members. What should have a been a minor change took me a few days to code. I should do a complete overhaul, but I’ve made progress until then.
Welcome and profile have a nicer look now and I removed some old fields. I’m not overly happy with the profile information—too forum oriented for a blog. Plus, some of the data isn’t very modern or is static, so I dropped what didn’t matter.
I also made the member list responsive. It used to be two different routines (standard and search) with different columns. To reduce confusion I combined them together with a common look and feel.
I also made some additional changes to the router routine to work correctly with query strings. But, I need to do some more code changes to fully take advantage of it.
I updated the menu’s with some new icons and router routines—I’m still removing old style queries. I also moved all the login and registration routines into their own pages, removing the bottom status. For users, your profile and notifications will now show at the top instead of at the bottom. Custom menus will still show at the bottom.
The Captcha input wasn’t obvious as it didn’t match the other form inputs. I fixed that today with the help of a reader.
In addition, I also fixed a bug I introduced when trying to edit comments. Doing so would break the article, remove tags, and generally just break things. I fixed all of that. Hopefully now things will work a bit better on the backside.
Fooling around with icons in the menu instead of words. I tried to replace “Topics” but it won’t display properly until I get to UTF-8. Probably should get that done!
Error messages follow blog style and now include a back button. Search has a new hero image, but still needs to be rewritten to match style and allow more flexibility in what can be searched.