Official DBS Service Desk Suggestion Thread

[Adam Richey]

Hello all!  This is DBSOgre, or Adam for those of you who didn't know.  Now that I am hosted at the world's finest DBS satellite information website, I want help to make my DBS Service Desk even better.  Please post ANY suggestions, updates, or upgrades you think I should make.  I will do my best to accomodate all suggestions.  Some things will be hard though, as I don't have a lot of finances, but I have a few GREAT ideas and would appreciate feedback about those and your own!  Thank you all for participating!

 

1. Change the color scheme and images.  Add DBS Talk references. - DONE

2. Along with the alphabetized and numerical channel line-ups, have one based on the genre of each channel.  I would do two of these: an alphabetized genre line-up and a numerical genre line-up. - DONE

3. Completely overhaul the Compare Locals page.  Instead of the chart, have a link to each city with the locals line-up.  The page would include the channel call letters, network affiliation, channel's website, OTA channel #, satellite  channel #, all of the full power locals NOT available in that area in a seperate list below with all of the information indicated above, and a list of locals not eligible for must-carry with all of the information indicated above.

4. Hunt down some email contacts for DirecTV.

5. DELETE the channel line-ups according to satellite since that's already indicated in the other channel line-ups. - DONE

6.  Add Expressvue and Star Choice information.

7.  Create an automatic channel addition request form on the Proposed Additions pages. - DONE

[TopCat99]

How 'bout a way to stop the news scroll on the front page? I've seen sites that do this on mouseover, but never looked to see how it's done.

Thanks :)

[Adam Richey]

Thanks for the suggestion TopCat, I wouldn't know where to go for that code though. Do you have any ideas? If so, I would be more than happy to do that for the news.

[James_F]

I've always liked this applet, but its $40...

http://www.appletcollection.com/advnewsscroll.html

Here is a free one I've used before...

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex2/crosstick.htm

[TopCat99]

hehe I knew one of those two guys would know. ;)

Here's another one that just changes the news in a box with variable URls, a la MSNBC.com: http://www.geocities.com/e_i_search/premshree/web-include/pub/scripts/JS/text-box-ticker.htm

OT, westol.com is right in my backyard. Oldest ISP in Westmoreland County.

[Adam Richey]

Your news scroll requests have been heard, and you may check out the NEW news scroll now. Thanks for the suggestion. Anything else guys?

[James_F]

Just slow it down somewhat and it will work. :goodjob:

[Adam Richey]

If you can set it up Zac, go for it. It was given me the fits when I tried to do it. It's like my computer COMPLETELY ignored the HTML about speed and stopping on the mouse over.

[James_F]

Wow Zac, anxious are we?

[James_F]

He might want to go to bed. :p

[MarkA]

I see he's gone now, but it's a little early ( 2114MST currently) for bedtime, dont'cha think?

[James_F]

2114??? You never cease to amaze me! :)

[TopCat99]

That is early. It's after 0500z and I'm still up :D

Zac, one of the downloads was me. I saw your second post and thought maybe the counter wasn't incrementing, so I tested it and was gonna reply if that was the case. As it worked, I just deleted the file and went to another thread ;)

[TopCat99]

Actually I didn't. Your post was addressed to DBSOgre, so I didn't peek. I only downloaded to check the counter was working :) It's still sitting in my Recycle Bin if you do want me to look at it tho.

[James_F]

Originally posted by Zac
Huh James? 9:14 PM Mountain (Standard) Time Zone for you who don't understand real time:) Currently it's 2227MST 01-Dec-2002.

As with the Best Buy thread Zac, you need to learn to play along. :)

[MarkA]

Ogre, I'm not sure if this is the same on all Java compilers, but I see you tried to make part of the text red by using the word red, well - it actually made it blue (at least on my compiler - 1.4.0_01). Instead, use hex colour codes - for red, that would be #FF0000 . Then it will work:)

[Adam Richey]

I've changed the color to red for ALL new news on the news scroll, among other things! Please check out the new pictures and give me your opinions. I do NOT know how to make pictures, so Flamingtext is the extent of my grasp. LOL. I apologize. Unless somebody was feeling REALLY generous and wanting to make some, but I like it now. Please leave some feedback about it. Thanks!

[MarkA]

No to the pictures! They're all BMPs and therefore aren't meant for internet use and are oversized.

[James_F]

Nooooo, not PNG. :blackeye:

[Chris Blount]

For once I agree with Zac. Bitmaps should not be used on internet pages. I would stick with Jpeg.

The red is a little strong. You might want to tone it down a little to a lighter shade of red.

[Adam Richey]

Okay guys. I toned down the red and changed the white font to black on the logos on the left. I REALLY like it. Please tell me what you think, but I think it looks awesome. Be honest though. :) I also made them JPG. I will probably start on the genre line-ups next.

[Neil Derryberry]

Ogre, I like it! Don't change a thing!

[Adam Richey]

I enjoy the darker colors and rock music, but I don't think it looks devilish. I understand it doesn't look like a million dollar website, but that's because it's not. I don't care as much about the frontal visual as I do with giving you guys a crapload of information and goodies to look at. :) Thanks very much Mr. Derryberry. :)

[Adam Richey]

The channel line-ups by genre are now done! You can go see the line-ups in numerical or alphabetical order now. Please let me know if there are any other things you would like to see done. I am going to change the Comparison of Locals page on my summer break since that will be a huge one.

[Adam Richey]

I gave up on finding email contacts for DirecTV. I just posted a link to the feedback form because I have hunted for some for a long time with no success. If anybody has any, please let me know.

[Adam Richey]

The HUGE Comparison of Locals overhaul is DONE! Please everybody let me know what you think of it. I appreciate it. I really am now running out of ideas. I'm going to delete the web pop-up stuff on the Desired Locals Additions city pages ASAP.