Adventures in Odyssey Wiki talk:Sandbox Episode

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Um...what's a sandbox episode? --Rachel Maxwell 13:12, 9 January 2008 (PST)

In the world of Wikis & computers, the term 'Sandbox' refers to a test environment. So this is an article that has been created to test new features and designs in Episode articles before implementing them on all the Episode pages. This was if anything goes wrong in the tests, not all of the Episode pages are affected.
It also allows for a place for people to goof around with Wiki features they might be unfamiliar with. Feel free to use this page as you see fit, after all...it's just a sandbox. :P blipadouzi 13:46, 9 January 2008 (PST)

episode teasers

another idea i had for something we could do is when the episode isn't availible to listen to through oneplace is to have a link to the teaser that's on the whit's end website, i'm not sure how it would be implemeted though, I'll have to think about it Eugenehead.gifReddo 15:25, 9 April 2008 (PDT)

I thought about it and i could probably work it into the parser function that links the episode pages to the episode on the streaming site only when the episode isn't available to listen to. so in the few weeks when the episode is up there would be a listen to link and then as soon as it's taken off it would be replaced in the same spot with the trailer link. Any other ideas? Eugenehead.gifReddo 22:20, 9 April 2008 (PDT)
Another great idea. blipadouzi 16:44, 11 April 2008 (PDT)
Brilliant. As usual.--Rachel Maxwell 18:49, 11 April 2008 (PDT)

Bible links

There are some episodes that just have an entire chapter for their scripture, like Psalm 104 or 1 Corinthians 13... I don't know how the current "verse" mock-up would work with that?Proverbs 22:9 Elementus Green 13:23, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

tabs

thoughts on the new tab design? you may have to purge your cache if you still see buttons Reddo 02:39, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

I like it a lot. Really no complaints. God Bless ~ Nate ~ Talk 02:53, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, it's great! Erwin Springer [talk] 15:02, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

3D Cover

What do you guys think of using the 3D cover? God Bless ~ Nate ~ Talk 18:07, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Sounds great! Could 3D covers be designed for albums such as "Family Portraits" and "Odyssey USA"? Erwin Springer [talk] 19:10, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, sure. If you could scan and upload or email me pictures of the sides of them, that would be great. God Bless ~ Nate ~ Talk 15:54, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
my opinion is that the 3d cover doesn't look the best, but that's just me Reddo 06:10, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
So I like the 3D covers for the episodes better. I think we should have a poll of some sort. God Bless ~ Nate ~ Talk 03:49, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
I don't think the 3d covers look very good either. Gooey98 21:17, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

quotation marks

is it just me or do the quotation marks around the episode names in the infobox look really bad? Reddo 23:39, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

I think they look fine, but that's just my perspective. Erwin Springer [talk] 02:16, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
I don't particularly care for them either. God Bless ~ Nate ~ Talk 05:01, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
I think they look find as well, but I don't think they are necessarily needed in this situation (hence, we can forgo the grammar rule in this case) MarvelousMarvin 15:12, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
By the way, I am pretty sure that quotation marks are only needed when you use the episodes name in a sentence, so using them in the infobox would not be under the rules of proper grammar & english. MarvelousMarvin 23:20, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Is it ready?

I think it looks great. Are we ready to update the real template? God Bless ~ Nate ~ Talk 01:55, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

design is pretty much ready, few little tweaks left on it, but it's very slow (page load time is ~3 seconds compared to only .26 seconds with no infobox), i have an idea to fix that though, what we could do is move the infobox section to a new location and then just transclude it with a dpl statement and then cache it. this way should be a lot faster, but we would no longer be able to edit the infobox from the page itself, but to fix that we could just add a link that goes straight to the edit page for it and then use css and a gadget to make it appear for only those that want it to appear, just some ideas, what are other thoughts? Reddo 01:58, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Is the tab strip just css? Erwin Springer [talk] 02:33, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
yeah is't just a little css and js that's cached user side, what's slowing it down it all the other things like transcluding the bible verses Reddo 01:19, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
forget what i said abouve, i have a new idea that should work to keep the template on the page as well as speed it up a lot, I'm expecting to have time to create it on either wednesday or thursday then we can test it out and hopefully make the change next month Reddo 01:19, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
had some extra free time (prof got busy and didn't hand out an assignment i was expecting) anyways i'm glad to say that it appears that page loading time has been sped up by a factor of 15! this page now loads in about .2 of a second, i'd say that's more than fast enough for us but as you can tell there's some reformatting to do now Reddo 00:12, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
I really like the new infobox. Is it almost ready now? Gooey98 23:11, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

albums

is there any way to make it so that the "show" button says something like "others"? God Bless ~ Nate ~ Talk 01:58, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

we could make it say more, but that would change all of them to more we could also just create some new js specific to that section Reddo 04:12, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

alignment

i tried lining up the some stuff to be inline with other things ignoring the show/hide buttons, what are some thoughts on this ? Reddo 20:50, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

ready?

I really like this! is it ready yet? the thing I don't get is the slideshow thing. what is that for? --Proverbs 31:30Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. ~ Aria ~ (talk) 16:23, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

I'm not 100% sure, but I think the "slideshow thing" is to show all of the albums that that episode is in. Gooey98 ~ (talk) 18:40, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

verses

What sort of separation should we between chapters that we transculde? like in the last verse given on the page is starts in psalm 53 and goes into 54, what sort of break should we have in there? and yes it's almost ready, the features in 1.18 is what i was waiting for and I just installed it last week Reddo 12:35, 2 January 2012 (MST)

thoughts?

should we start making this the new look for episode pages? Reddo (talk) 22:15, 2 August 2013 (MDT)

I think we should, if we did I think we should start changing it at Album 57 and go 56,55... down because those are likely more popular pages as we are in the New AIO Era. This could take a few months though. Skylerbuck (Male, Canadian, Admin) (talk) 11:28, 3 August 2013 (MDT)
I'm just making a list of links for all the episodes, like iTunes, canadian, australian download links ect. I was thinking that for moving it over, we start going down from 57, but also start from the current place in the radio schedule and work our way up from there. Reddo (talk) 18:24, 3 August 2013 (MDT)
the list didn't get done and I'm leaving for a missions trip in 30 minutes so I guess that'll have to wait till later, here's a list of all the episodes that still need to be done old episode pages, if you have any questions it might be a bit before I can answer, I'll try to get online every few days though Reddo (talk) 03:02, 6 August 2013 (MDT)

intro

one last thought is to have a text intro right before the summary something like

Sandbox Episode is the 21st episode in the Adventures in Odyssey Audio Series, it was written by Nathan Hoobler and originally aired on March 35th, 2016.

I feel like it might be a good addition to that manual of style thing that we're trying to work on but I'm not set on it. Reddo (talk) 22:18, 2 August 2013 (MDT)

It makes all the episodes look uniform so I agree. Skylerbuck (Male, Canadian, Admin) (talk) 20:25, 3 August 2013 (MDT)

iTunes

Canada and USA have different stores, so could we add the Canadian iTunes? Skylerbuck (Male, Canadian, Admin) (talk) 02:23, 3 August 2013 (MDT)

hmm i was unaware of that, we could have one for both, is there a difference between them? from what I can see the links are almost identical and both links work from in Canada, all of these three links load the same page
is there a difference on price on some things? does it lock you out from buying things? I never use itunes so I'm not familiar with it Reddo (talk) 08:40, 3 August 2013 (MDT)
I think there is a difference, I don't know for what though. Skylerbuck (Male, Canadian, Admin) (talk) 20:27, 3 August 2013 (MDT)
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