the dgrin suggestion box

StevenV

Andy wrote:

Getting closer on this the headers are consistent. The dgrin.smgumug site will have different navbar. But the navbars on www.dgrin.com should become more consistent - I'm working on it!

egg-cellent, thanks muchly. I guess I'm unclear on the difference betwen www.dgrin.com and dgrin.smugmug.com from a user or technical perspective, but progress toward consistancy is a good thing. bravo

Andy

StevenV wrote:

egg-cellent, thanks muchly. I guess I'm unclear on the difference betwen www.dgrin.com and dgrin.smugmug.com from a user or technical perspective, but progress toward consistancy is a good thing. bravo

www.dgrin.com is a vbulletin-powered forum software.
http://dgrin.smugmug.com is a SmugMug site

We are striving to make it easy to go back and forth easily.

Thanks!

RogersDA

Just a suggestion, but how about adding a separate forum for macro photography separate from Other Cool Shots?

Macro has become a large portion of the postings there and they tend to move non-macro shots off the front page rather quickly.

RogersDA

RogersDA wrote:

Just a suggestion, but how about adding a separate forum for macro photography separate from Other Cool Shots?

Macro has become a large portion of the postings there and they tend to move non-macro shots off the front page rather quickly.

Bump - Yes? No? Never in a million years?

Art Scott

RogersDA wrote:

Just a suggestion, but how about adding a separate forum for macro photography separate from Other Cool Shots?

Macro has become a large portion of the postings there and they tend to move non-macro shots off the front page rather quickly.

I agree....concur....that's a yep me too thinks this way.....

Andy

RogersDA wrote:

Bump - Yes? No? Never in a million years?

Hi, we see everything here - sometimes we may not answer each posting, but know this: I and every single mod on the team read this thread.

Thanks for the posting and suggestion!

christulk

Nav bar at the botom as well??
Hello all who know how to do things.

Is there any chance of getting a nav bar (the one telling you which folder you are viewing: Digital Grin Photography Forum>Support>Dgrin etc) placed on the bottom of the screen as well? As ACDC famously said "it's a long way to the top if you want to change the forums" (I may be para-phrasing that a bit )

In this "I want in now" generation, scrolling back to the top just takes soooo long.

Thanks

patch29

christulk wrote:

Hello all who know how to do things.

Is there any chance of getting a nav bar (the one telling you which folder you are viewing: Digital Grin Photography Forum>Support>Dgrin etc) placed on the bottom of the screen as well? As ACDC famously said "it's a long way to the top if you want to change the forums" (I may be para-phrasing that a bit )

In this "I want in now" generation, scrolling back to the top just takes soooo long.

Thanks

On the bottom right should be a "forum jump" dropdown menu which will show your current location and allow you to jump to any forum from the menu. It does not show on the homepage, just forum and thread pages.

christulk

patch29 wrote:

On the bottom right should be a "forum jump" dropdown menu which will show your current location and allow you to jump to any forum from the menu. It does not show on the homepage, just forum and thread pages.

Hi Patch,

The jump forum button only takes to another forum, whereas the 'top nav bar' allows you to go back to the forum and pick and choose which posts you want to veiw - it gives you more control I think.

It's not a big deal, just a thought.

Thanks

dbinaz

Can you turn on the option to show subforum links in the parent cats? I didn't even know there was any.

Derek

dbinaz

I would like to see the vb templates brought over to other parts of the site. The white on black just kills my eyes, especaily at night.

Derek

momof2boys

a timely HP suggestion
With the recent release of the "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" movie and the "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" book, I suggest that you temporarily change the name of our favorite website to "SmugMuggle"!!

sms

RogersDA

Andy wrote:

Hi, we see everything here - sometimes we may not answer each posting, but know this: I and every single mod on the team read this thread.

Thanks for the posting and suggestion!

Thanks to the Smugmug team for doing this.

salazar

A suggestion. A standard dgrin web page always has three photos across the top, the left one is currently Dgrin Photo of the Year - 2006, the next The Dgrin Challenges Gallery of Winners, the next LPS Qualifier Finalists. If I hover my mouse over the first two nothing shows, the third will indicate the photo is from the "Last Photographer Standing". If you click on any of these photos you end up in the appropriate gallery containing the photo, but not at the photo shown. You can eventually find the photo by searching through the gallery (this can take quite a while), but I've often wondered if you could be directed straight to the actual photo instead, or be given some other information that would make finding it easier.

Or something like that...

Thank you.

DavidTO

salazar wrote:

A suggestion. A standard dgrin web page always has three photos across the top, the left one is currently Dgrin Photo of the Year - 2006, the next The Dgrin Challenges Gallery of Winners, the next LPS Qualifier Finalists. If I hover my mouse over the first two nothing shows, the third will indicate the photo is from the "Last Photographer Standing". If you click on any of these photos you end up in the appropriate gallery containing the photo, but not at the photo shown. You can eventually find the photo by searching through the gallery (this can take quite a while), but I've often wondered if you could be directed straight to the actual photo instead, or be given some other information that would make finding it easier.

Or something like that...

Thank you.

I dunno, but I'll find out!

DavidTO

DavidTO wrote:

I dunno, but I'll find out!

I found out the answer to this one.

Unfortunately, it's no, it's not possible to do that.

Sorry!

SloYerRoll

Sorry if this is a double post. Didn't search this thread.

Please reference these two vbulletin forums for examples: (just these two since I frequent them)
http://ubuntuforums.org/
http://www.illustratortechniques.com/forum/

Just go into any thead. You'll see both multiquote and quick reply functionality.

Any way we can keep up w/ the jonses?

It's pretty easy for long time posters to quickly type

auntjamima wrote:

but it's not very user friendly where the average poster that visits here lives and breathes through a GUI. Obvious exceptions noted.

Also the seperation of the stickies on the Ubuntu forum is pretty sweet. I don't have to remember whether this is forum has 10 stickies from Andy or none. (no diss, Andy is just a sticky nut!)

Thanks for your time.

-Jon

1pocket

A better option for 'street photography'
Being a fan of street photography, I have been disappointed in lookiing for it in Dgrin. I know under the "Field & Street" category you include "Street Photography" in the subtitle, but no one seems to use that for street work. In fact, including street work with landscape photography seems to be a very odd combination, in my mind. Ansel Adams with Gary Winograd?? Nah, it just doesn't work! Obviously your members feel the same way, because I have found precious little street work under "Field & Street" -- it seems to get posted under "People".

Why not change the name of the "Field & Street" category to "Landscapes" with something like "Rural & Urban" in the subtitle. It is almost as if whoever laid out the categories way back when thought street photography was all about 'the streets'

Or maybe you could combine street photography with a new photojournalism category -- at least that would be a better fit than landscapes...

Thank you for listening. Hey, I promise I will post some of my own humble attempts at street work in such a category if you create it

1pocket

1pocket wrote:

Being a fan of street photography, I have been disappointed in lookiing for it in Dgrin. I know under the "Field & Street" category you include "Street Photography" in the subtitle, but no one seems to use that for street work. In fact, including street work with landscape photography seems to be a very odd combination, in my mind. Ansel Adams with Gary Winograd?? Nah, it just doesn't work! Obviously your members feel the same way, because I have found precious little street work under "Field & Street" -- it seems to get posted under "People".

Why not change the name of the "Field & Street" category to "Landscapes" with something like "Rural & Urban" in the subtitle. It is almost as if whoever laid out the categories way back when thought street photography was all about 'the streets'

Or maybe you could combine street photography with a new photojournalism category -- at least that would be a better fit than landscapes...

Thank you for listening. Hey, I promise I will post some of my own humble attempts at street work in such a category if you create it

What I meant to be proposing, but I seem to have left out the actual suggestion, is that there be a specific new category for "Street Photography" -- or maybe "Street and Photojournalism" combined, that is removed from the landscape work in the "Field & Street" category that you now have.

DoctorIt

1pocket wrote:

What I meant to be proposing...

Hey 1pocket, we hear you and we consider all suggestions

Bear in mind, more is not always better and that's something we strive for here. Making a seperate forum won't encourage more "street" posting, nope, the only way to do that is to post more "street" first... the chicken, or the egg?


Looking forward to your posts

1pocket

DoctorIt wrote:

Hey 1pocket, we hear you and we consider all suggestions

Bear in mind, more is not always better and that's something we strive for here. Making a seperate forum won't encourage more "street" posting, nope, the only way to do that is to post more "street" first... the chicken, or the egg?


Looking forward to your posts

Don't you think landscapes are an odd placement with street photos and photojournalism, or vice versa?

sit

SloYerRoll wrote:

Just go into any thead. You'll see both multiquote and quick reply functionality.

Any way we can keep up w/ the jonses?

If quick-reply lets you reply to a post without going to a new page (where the posts are viewed in reverse order), I'm all for it!

I've spent a few days trying out flickr (not for hosting, but just for their community/exploration features) and in contrast to vBulletin, their groups interface is blessedly sparse. There's always a reply box at the bottom of a thread (replies are fast and easy), the text of each reply is not very-wide (making it easy to scan), and only the most minimal of other information directly visible (just a tiny image of the poster, linkiing through to their profile, and the time the message was posted). Any streamlining of the UI to make the content more prominent would be a big draw for me: I browse on a 1024x768 screen...

Thanks!

Richard

Lately I have been hanging out on another vBulletin-based forum (NotebookReview.com) that has a cool feature which would be helpful on Dgrin. At the end of each post, there are links to similar posts. I don't know whether these links are generated automatically or are put there by moderators--an important question, I realize. NotebookReview is running a newer version of vBulletin (3.6.4), FWIW.

Edit: Hmmm...I just noticed that not all posts have the similar post section, which makes me think it must be created manually. Never mind.

Cheers,

Allen

New Stuff
I there anyway to add the "what's going on" box to the bottom of the "new stuff" page?

Tango

help?
am i search ignorant? no need to answer that:D
anytime i search it seems to not be helpful...

anyway, my main suggestion:

finishing room needs to be broken down.
threads for LR, for Photoshop, etc...

i want to start a thread, so i try to search first (which ends up kinda so so)
it would be nice to find topics specific...
(like LR tutorials)(if there are any)

Allen

AaronNelson wrote:

help?
am i search ignorant? no need to answer that:D
anytime i search it seems to not be helpful...

anyway, my main suggestion:

finishing room needs to be broken down.
threads for LR, for Photoshop, etc...

i want to start a thread, so i try to search first (which ends up kinda so so)
it would be nice to find topics specific...
(like LR tutorials)(if there are any)

This search seems to work better. Stick this in Google seach box.

site:www.dgrin.com word1 word2

or bookmark this link

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=site%3Awww.dgrin.com&btnG=Search

Shudderz

I know someone else has asked before and was told wait and see. I thought since we are about to get to the beginning of wedding season....has anyone reconsidered a wedding category separate from people? or even a sub-category of people? It might be nice to have a category on its own...

A place for people to post pictures...ask questions, etc. For now they seem to end up in the People thread...and yes they are people...but there are also questions being asked, advice being sought. I think wedding photography is such a big subset of this business that it deserves its own category.

One place to house it all would be great. A one stop resource.

Thanks!

DoctorIt

Shudderz wrote:

One place to house it all would be great. A one stop resource.

Thanks!

Hi Heather, we listen to all suggestions, definitely. Aside from any reasons we've given in the past, our most experienced wedding photographer (our good friend Shay Stephens) has been forced to take a leave of absence from Dgrin for personal reasons. If we were to do a wedding forum, we'd want to do it right.

Shudderz

Nilmdts
I'm not sure if this is where this should go or not....I was wondering if there was a way that SmugMug and/or Dgrin could get involved, something they could offer, etc. with the Non Profit "Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep"?

Even a sticky on dgrin in "people" or somewhere else that would be appropriate that informs dgrin viewers about the service and how to volunteer?

Maybe a "Giving Back" sticky, with a place to list different charitable organizations that photographers can get involved with?

Just my .02

DavidTO

Shudderz wrote:

I'm not sure if this is where this should go or not....I was wondering if there was a way that SmugMug and/or Dgrin could get involved, something they could offer, etc. with the Non Profit "Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep"?

Even a sticky on dgrin in "people" or somewhere else that would be appropriate that informs dgrin viewers about the service and how to volunteer?

Maybe a "Giving Back" sticky, with a place to list different charitable organizations that photographers can get involved with?

Just my .02

Heather, thanks for the suggestion. Give us some time to huddle on this one, eh?