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Offline Lady_Silverwolf

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Contact Link / Suggestion Box idea
« on: February 16, 2003, 23:57:44 »
Mind you I only have had my album runing less than 30 minutes but as the web admin for the 632rl racing league, and knowing how picky they can be about the management of photos, I was wondering if there is a possiblity of adding a Suggestion Box button next to the Rating button.

Basically the idea would be to allow people to make suggestions on how to name the image.

Take a gander at this album:
http://www.632rl.com/cgi-bin/album.pl

As you can see, I the web meister (thats me) denotes images by number. Now knowing the fellas in the racing league, they will wish to NAMES said photos, but the only means they would have to do so is by posting it in the forums or emailing me and perhaps not even get the right image down.

If there was a Suggestion Box link, that could parse out, or email the web master, that would really make those fellas happy.

Granted I am sure there are not many out there that may want this particular feature, however I think it could be something useful to use.

Even if it were not a button, maybe a email link somewhere on the page to contact the web administrator would be good.

Of course, this is a person who is also very unfamiliar with writing scripts and modifying .css docs and only has experience with html.
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Re:Contact Link / Suggestion Box idea
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2003, 07:57:01 »
I think we can do what you want already. Here's some code to insert in the album_photo.tml template:

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      <div class="mailto">
         <a href="mailto:admin@yourside.com?subject=Suggestion Box: ####URLONLY####&amp;body=I have a suggestion for the name of this picture: ####URLONLY####" class="optionslink">Suggestion Box</a>
      </div>

That code can go pretty much anywhere (and can be tailored), but I'd add it near the ####RATINGS#### tag in album_photo.tml, maybe like this:

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      <div class="mailto">
         <a href="mailto:admin@yourside.com?subject=Suggestion Box: ####URLONLY####&amp;body=I have a suggestion for the name of this picture: ####URLONLY####" class="optionslink">Suggestion Box</a>
      </div>

   <!-- Insert the photo's ratings, as well as the "Rate It" link. -->
   <div class="ratings">
      ####RATINGS####
   </div>

Hope that makes sense!

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Re:Contact Link / Suggestion Box idea
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2003, 10:34:34 »
I think I will now scour these forums for more code, as I had not realized it would be so easy.

Thanks Mike!
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Re:Contact Link / Suggestion Box idea
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2003, 10:43:26 »
Great! There are little snippits here and there, but not a lot... The "Tips and Tricks" forum is always good reading. :)