STHayden's dashboard

STHayden replied on September 28, 2008 14:43 to the question "Blogging books I've read" in Books I Am Reading:

if you know PHP or javascript you can do this on your own. If not then I am working on a bit if javascript you can paste in to your website. I'll post another response here when it is done.

STHayden replied on September 07, 2008 15:04 to the question "Search function not working?" in Books I Am Reading:

I have to say I'm a little stumped on the search not working. Some times it seems the ajax does not fire correctly but for me at least it seems rare and just clicking search again fixes it.

The OpenID error you got, as far as I can tell, is some problem with my host, Dreamhost, which kinda sucks some times. I encourage you to add a password in the account section just in case the openid ever breaks completely.

Tabrez Iqbal replied on September 07, 2008 08:19 to the question "Search function not working?" in Books I Am Reading:

The search function is now working fine in my Firefox 3.0.1 and other browsers.

(Just FYI, I got this error today when trying to login using OpenID:

Fatal error: Call to a member function addExtension() on a non-object in /home/.magellan/sthayden/booksiamreading.com/register.php on line 237

A second login attempt was successful.)

STHayden replied on September 02, 2008 15:24 to the question "How can I delete my Books I Am Reading account?" in Books I Am Reading:

it's when you started waiting to read the book

Michael Scott Cooley replied on September 02, 2008 15:10 to the question "How can I delete my Books I Am Reading account?" in Books I Am Reading:

What is the "Waiting Date"?

STHayden replied on September 02, 2008 14:41 to the question "How can I delete my Books I Am Reading account?" in Books I Am Reading:

of you hover over the book there is an option to start reading the book. Also if you click through to the book there is an option to start reading the book.

Michael Scott Cooley replied on September 02, 2008 14:38 to the question "How can I delete my Books I Am Reading account?" in Books I Am Reading:

One last thought.

I have a book that I'm currently reading...

But you only have two categories: "I Want To Read" and "I Have Read"
But I think you need one that is: "Currently Reading"

STHayden replied on September 02, 2008 14:22 to the question "How can I delete my Books I Am Reading account?" in Books I Am Reading:

thanks for the feedback

Michael Scott Cooley replied on September 02, 2008 14:19 to the question "How can I delete my Books I Am Reading account?" in Books I Am Reading:

When editing my first book entry, after I added my start date a button appeared that said "I Have Finished".

My first thought was "if I click this button, will it think that I have finished reading the book? or is it going to think that I've finished making editing changes?"

Maybe different wording would be clearer to the viewer.

Michael Scott Cooley replied on September 02, 2008 14:13 to the question "How can I delete my Books I Am Reading account?" in Books I Am Reading:

Thank you.
I was able to register and now I am a happy camper. :)

You may want to consider spicing up your registration form.
Let people know that the name they enter will also set a permanent URL.
And instead of labeling the field "Name", label it "Username".

Another thought:
Once logged in, it was hard to find any menu.
I would place a temporary icon or "pointer" up towards the Backpack to let users know where the menu is.
Either have disappear after the user uses the menu, or have it fade away after a certain amount of time.
Or.... make the menu more visible.

STHayden replied on September 02, 2008 13:51 to the question "How can I delete my Books I Am Reading account?" in Books I Am Reading:

woops... thanks for beta testing! It's now Fixed!

you're username is plenty long but my code was too dumb to notice. I just want usernames to be more then 3 characters.

Since most people don't care about the URL I just make your name be the URL... if you want "onetimesilence" then just enter that as your name in the registration.

thanks again for your patience.

Michael Scott Cooley replied on September 02, 2008 05:19 to the question "How can I delete my Books I Am Reading account?" in Books I Am Reading:

I get this error message when signing up:

"fullname needs to be longer"

I wrote the following in the Full Name box:

"Michael S Cooley"

How long does it have to be??
And how do I get my URL to be "http://www.booksiamreading.com/onetimesilence" ?

Michael Scott Cooley replied on September 02, 2008 05:15 to the question "How can I delete my Books I Am Reading account?" in Books I Am Reading:

I have sent an email to the email address that you have given. Again, I plan on re-signing up. But under different circumstances. Not using MyOpenID. And trying to get the right URL.

STHayden replied on September 02, 2008 05:05 to the question "How can I delete my Books I Am Reading account?" in Books I Am Reading:

currently there is no automated way... but if you email me from the email you have saved in you account I will delete it for you.

email me at: alt255@gmail.com

May I ask why you want to delete your account?

tabrez replied on September 01, 2008 06:57 to the question "Search function not working?" in Books I Am Reading:

My browser is Firefox 3.0.1. I have always used this browser and BIAR worked with no problems earlier.

I just tried it again and the search function is still not working for me. I also tried in IE 8 Beta and opera 9.5, but no luck. Let me know if you want to test by logging in with my username and password.

STHayden replied on August 31, 2008 15:29 to the question "Search function not working?" in Books I Am Reading:

Hmm.. it's working for me. Your search returns results. What browser are you using?

STHayden replied on August 23, 2008 17:11 to the question "Cannot login with my openID, it just keeps repeating...??" in Books I Am Reading:

hey... you can now login and register with a normal username and password. Enjoy!

If you already have a user account with a OpenID you can go to the accout setting and update an email and password.

STHayden replied on August 19, 2008 22:13 to the question "Cannot login with my openID, it just keeps repeating...??" in Books I Am Reading:

haha.. thanks... I'm a designer and I appreciate the sympathy...

mechanolatry replied on August 19, 2008 21:50 to the question "Cannot login with my openID, it just keeps repeating...??" in Books I Am Reading:

a regular username and password feature is a good idea, and later on you could have accounts switch over to their openID once you fix the bugs. =)

It's ok, no need to apologize. Coding is a bitch.

STHayden replied on August 19, 2008 21:45 to the question "Cannot login with my openID, it just keeps repeating...??" in Books I Am Reading:

sigh.. it seems both claimID and livejournal are not working.

I have to say OpenID has not been as fun to use as I thought it would be.

myopenid works. Yahoo works.

I'm going to be adding a normal username and password registration any day now and these login problems will be a thing of the past.

Sorry for the inconvenience.