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OK, this almanac site is more impressive, the more I look at it. Can you share the back end fields layout? Lots of tabs? It's incredible the way even the simplest information is all wrapped up in links that query for related items. Lots of developers would have said, "not important to query based on all these little things..." This should be what web 4.0 is like.

One of the PW sites I've been working on recently: http://www.ukiahpolice.com This project was structured really differently from the start, in comparison to most sites I do. In our planning, we decided that the first task was just to put up the front page of the site, and then evolve it over time. It's still evolving, but should be completely wrapped up soon. Changes are coming for the small screen views and several sections of the site. The chief has been really happy with it. He presented the site to the city council this week so I'm calling it presentable myself. My favorite part of this has been working with another developer on additional software that uses the PW API to populate the database via email attachments and funky things like that. We're looking at hooking up a fax API too. So a big part of this for me has been the pleasure of creating not just a website, but an extension to the department's workflow that makes it easier to disseminate information. We've had some interesting moments in working with law enforcement software providers, too. We planned on basing some of our social media involvement around a web service that would broadcast crime information to Twitter and Facebook. When the time came to hook it all up, I discovered that the features weren't working. I kept reconnecting and re-authenticating on Twitter and Facebook, but got nothing. Eventually I contacted the service provider and they said that these features were "in alpha" and "the buttons don't do anything." Cracked me right up. The features are even documented in their quick start guides!

Thanks for sharing these, Ryan. Your notes make total sense to me, and I feel like I've been in similar situations before myself. ...I know that feeling very well. This made me chuckle. I had something similar happen before, where the client says, "why did you change that part?" "It's the default thing, everybody uses this..." "We like it and want to have it." But how cool is it that you got to do an almanac for a place called DesignIntelligence? Freaking awesome. Let us know what you think of Highcharts, too.

I have a script that is creating new pages under a specific parent, but the new pages are added to the bottom of the list of siblings. Is there a way to get new pages to default to the top of the sibling list rather than the bottom? Failing that, I'd need to sort by a date field, but after I added the field, it doesn't show up in the list of "sort by" fields in the parent. (Actually wondering now...maybe the field has to belong to the parent as well as the child templates) Thanks!

Great techniques! Thanks for explaining. I love the CSS-by-language.

Nice job, Marty. Was the multilingual aspect pretty straightforward?

Thanks for adding that check, Ryan. It looks like that should work just fine.

Had a little error crop up today...posting attachments to the site via POP3 email retrieval... Pagefile.php line 88 $filename = str_replace(' ', '%20', trim($filename)); About which my partner in crime says: Thoughts?

Lovely, this is going in my book of web design quotes. Inline editing always struck me as a halfway solution. I used to offer it to my clients as a feature (in CMSes like Joomla and Concrete5), but after a while they all stopped using inline editing. It's a lot easier to talk about a single editing mode rather than two editing modes (inline and control panel), and the existence of two can be really, really confusing for users.

Thanks, Soma. I guess that makes sense. Now I need to verify that I didn't make another client superuser, because they can definitely see & use Trash.

I've set up a user with a role that can do everything except administering users. When I log in as this user, I can't see the Trash anymore. I can delete pages through the delete tab, though. Was the Trash meant to be superuser-only? This seems to work OK in older versions of PW.

That would be way cool, Pete. Love to see it when you can share. Thanks!

Great module. Does this support a suffix with things like hash tags? For example, "/cc @example" or "#processwire #cms" etc., to appear at the end of the Twitter post.

Thanks Netcarver! Switched one of my PW installs over to Textile recently and I love how it feels.

Thanks, guys. I'll move forward with the page refs and see where that gets me. Diogo, this CSS tree is pretty cool!

I'm creating a family history website, and after looking at the software available for the purpose (I'd have to remove a lot of things I don't need), decided to see how ProcessWire might be used for this. I don't really need a formal family tree structure in the back end as long as I can figure out a reasonably good fit for indicating family relations. Right now I have a flat grouping of pages for individuals under a page for each family name. I was thinking I could indicate parents, children and spouses via page fields. Can anybody see obvious flaws in this, or give me an idea of an alternative? I just couldn't think of a way of getting away from using page fields to indicate things like spouses, even if I used the page tree to indicate children. I don't want to get too serious about replicating a genealogy app because I don't need all of the crazy features those have, but I would like to be able to at least display hierarchichal family data on the front end. Thanks for any ideas!

Love it, right down to the Submit button on the Contact form

Can we also get one that comes with my next client project all set up? Thanks.

I like the border effect more than the opacity effect, now that I've examined the two. Agreed. After visiting the Met website today (example) I have some ideas for changing the look of the social media integration. I'm excited to do more with the design after I work on the ecommerce side a bit.

Thanks for sharing, Pete. This is really a neat site you've built. I liked the bookcase effect and the way it was easy to find interviews (I always look for interviews on these types of sites) Thanks for the modules, too!

Very nice. You did a great job with the atmosphere and straightforward layout. Thanks for sharing!

I just received this in an email from a developer I'm working with: Any idea what might be going wrong? Thanks.

Thanks for the comments, everybody! I am getting a bit sick of FB Like Boxes, too. And a bit tired of the ephemeral nature of Facebook posting, to tell the truth. So I'll look at another way of presenting that info. AnotherAndrew, you mean the visual effect of the rollover for the gallery items? There's a slight effect now but if you mean a border, maybe I'll try it out.

apeisa, is it possible to use URL segments to provide a simple scheme for direct access to individual repeater items as if they were pages? I mean, if you have a set list of 10 repeater items (company board members, for example) and wanted to work it that way...

Thanks, diogo! Appreciate it, Marty. Big fan of your work, too. Thanks! And you're probably seeing plenty of comments from the framework I used, though I do like to use comments. Still bouncing around trying to get a feel for the different responsive approaches. I yanked a TON of junk out of this one. Lots of interactive bling that felt like it got in the way. I'm working on another site using Initializr's H5BP mobile first setup, and I really, really like the simplicity of it. I hope to work in some more specific layouts between the different viewport sizes, too. Next week I begin work on a government site that will have a separate mobile component, so I'm starting to brainstorm the different approaches. Also looking for a good PHP mobile detection / shunting method; let me know if you know of any. So far I've looked into the one TXP's adi_mobile uses: php-mobile-detect. I'm excited to really make the mobile experience special & useful somehow, without breaking continuity too much. I like the Carnation Group's mobile site, mostly because it feels like they actually put a lot of effort into it. Funny, I thought about that all weekend! I had arrived at the idea of just truncating the title and adding ellipses, but your ideas are really great. I'll probably start with the easiest and work my way up from there as I have time. I need to address the same problem on my own site (just generally long titles, not fun to look at) but my stats show that the intra-section navigation is too valuable to leave out. Also gotta fix that ugly double-green-band footer. Thanks, Dave! I appreciate your comments.