Review: [Website] J Love's Blog & Personal Site

[Quick info about phpHaze]

Has been a while since I have put a site up for review, hasn't it?  I have been working on my personal blog for about two months so far along with my own CMS that I am developing, phpHaze, this site serves as the current "demo" site for phpHaze as well because it is the only site that always runs the latest version  .

Quick info about phpHaze: phpHaze is a lightweight CMS/portal system that is predominantly based on PHP-Fusion, another popular CMS system. The main difference between phpHaze and PHP-Fusion is the fact that phpHaze can be plugged into any theme system, while php-fusion is strict on a left-middle-right layout based on tables. phpHaze is also 100% w3c compliant for XHTML, CSS, Tableless, and RSS. Unfortunately there is currently not a website for phpHaze itself with a live demo or feature list yet. This is currently under development.

Please review this site, J Love's Blog & Personal Site . In your review, please include comments/suggestions/critiques about the CMS system that operates the website, the design/layout itself, as well as any other general comments.

There are of course many areas that you can not see because you will not be logged in or you are not an administrator. Here are some screenshots of the various things available to admins/registered members (respectively).

Administration Panel Index

Add a Comment

Custom Page Editor (within the Admin Panel)

Main Site Settings (within the Admin Panel)

User Panel (Replaces the login box after logging in)

J Love,

I love the site's layout and theme. It's perfect. Keep it up. I find your site easy to get around.

I'm a very happy user of phpHaze on Joffee Publishing's site.

* WhiteEagle can't wait for Writer's Zone...it'll be great, thanks to this software.

the button at the bottom of the site declares a tableless layout....

strange because I see tables....

the button at the bottom of the site declares a tableless layout....

strange because I see tables....

point taken index.php is currently the only tableless compliant page. XHTML, CSS, and RSS applies to the other pages though, 100%.

http://w3tableless.com/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fjlove.justinlove.net

Is that all you have to say for your review, Venture? 

In your review, please include comments/suggestions/critiques about the CMS system that operates the website, the design/layout itself, as well as any other general comments.

At leasst my review covered the whole site...

Come on out and post the truth...it'll just help J Love (and any help he gets he passes onto customers, like me ).

* WhiteEagle makes an encouraging motion...

no it was a remark
I will have a closer look later, just noticed that and it made me smile.

You might want to look
http://www.webdigity.com/index.php/topic,6136.0.10+Tips+to+Self+Review.html
at least some apply I believe

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method check the footer on all of your sites in firefox and you should do something with URL's

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That's a very very nice template. Did you did it or is it open source?

BTW your software is open source or what? Are you going to distribute it somehow?

method check the footer on all of your sites in firefox and you should do something with URL's

please be a little more specific as to what the problem is ...

That's a very very nice template. Did you did it or is it open source?

BTW your software is open source or what? Are you going to distribute it somehow?

The template was originally "Fotolandia" from Free CSS Templates. It is now ENTIRELY custom, and has been changed so much that it is no longer even close to being identical..

phpHaze is not currently available for download of any kind, only purchase and its also only currently meant for paying clients, this is mainly because I have not written a self-installer script or self-upgrading script for it yet  Have to install files/db by hand

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method check the footer on all of your sites in firefox and you should do something with URL's

please be a little more specific as to what the problem is ...

just check the footer (the credits copyright stuff), can't believe that didn't notice that

check also the license of phpfusion, with many OS licenses it is not allowed to a modified version.

[You may alter the code in any way you wish and redistribute it either as is or containing your own modifications.]

method check the footer on all of your sites in firefox and you should do something with URL's

please be a little more specific as to what the problem is ...

just check the footer (the credits copyright stuff), can't believe that didn't notice that

check also the license of phpfusion, with many OS licenses it is not allowed to a modified version.

you are wrong about phpFusion Olaf check the php-fusion main website:

PHP-Fusion Licensing
Free License (GNU/GPL):
PHP-Fusion is released under the terms and conditions of version 2 of the GNU General Public License. For further information please visit www.gnu.org or refer to the gpl.txt file included in the distribution package. You may alter the code in any way you wish and redistribute it either as is or containing your own modifications. We would appreciate it if you retained the "Powered by PHP-Fusion" footer copyright notice. We feel this is fair when you consider the many hundreds of hours of work that continues to go into the development of this project. However, if you do remove the footer copyright notice please consider making a donation via Paypal. 

Edit-- also why you are even mentioning the license of php-Fusion? phpHaze is an entirely different CMS and is not a copy of fusion, it was written from scratch, it is only BASED on php-Fusion because of the php functions that it uses..

Good going J Love. This is very good info. I sure am interested in that so-called footer error...LOL...if there is one.

Good going J Love. This is very good info. I sure am interested in that so-called footer error...LOL...if there is one.

Oh there is, you probably don't see it because you are using a lesser program to browse the 'net.

One other thing: I usually visit a blog to read, not to listen to music. Thank god that is another feature that isn't working in FF. Good work you did on the template!

Good going J Love. This is very good info. I sure am interested in that so-called footer error...LOL...if there is one.

Oh there is, you probably don't see it because you are using a lesser program to browse the 'net.

One other thing: I usually visit a blog to read, not to listen to music. Thank god that is another feature that isn't working in FF. Good work you did on the template!

using IE7, in your opinion maybe a lesser program to firefox but not mine. I will look into the footer error in Firefox soon and get that fixed asap, now that a second person has confirmed it.  that music ONLY auto-starts on the front page of the site. if you are registered, you can disable that feature and it will never auto-start. too bad for the public readers huh?

Table based design which sums up the whole site.
No concept of hierarchy or semantic structure no real understanding of how the heading tags work
some images are missing alt attributes (though most have them) no title attributes, particularly important for your logo given that it contains textual content.

It looks and behaves like a nuke CMS site very 90's, the table design is partly to blame I suspect, I just can't find much to like I know how much time goes into making a CMS and kudos for you for doing it. But I don't like it sorry

and your footer has issues in Opera as well as Firefox on certain pages

I have fixed the footer issue. Please confirm this if possible

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you are wrong about phpFusion Olaf check the php-fusion main website:

it was just an advice, before I met you here I never know what phpfusion is

you are wrong about phpFusion Olaf check the php-fusion main website:

it was just an advice, before I met you here I never know what phpfusion is

No worries mate, most CMS & other web-software does not allow what I am doing with phpHaze.. fusion is unique, and still in development as well

BTW olaf, does the footer look better now?

I have fixed the footer issue. Please confirm this if possible

Looks good in FF!

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Ventureskills:
Table based design which sums up the whole site.

How does table based design sum up the whole site? examine the source code of index.php, and count the amount of tables used.

There is one table which is used as a "padder" for the content boxes on the left. There is also tablebreaks being used throughout the site (only 2), see code below for function.tablebreak example.

Code:

<table border='0'><tr><td height='5'></td></tr></table>

The above inserts a nice blank space between two content boxes, but isn't as tall as a full line break.

As well, the front page news/blog items currently use a table to force the different features into place. This will soon be fixed and change though..

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