Correct a couple errors in the switching between heat-index and wind chill
Correct the method for showing the year on non-USA date formats
Improve the method used to display the change in hours of daylight
Removed CSS file modifications until all proper authorizations are obtained (manual change required)
Hopefully this update will take care of the known issues with this alternative dashboard. I would still like to get feedback on a replacement section for the snow for those areas of the world that don’t have the fluffy white stuff that causes your back to ache and your car to skid into the ditch!
Replacement section suggestion (probably too far fetched but at least an idea!)…also I know this is a type of H/L/A and trend but I like the idea on the front page:
On the McGee’s Crossroads Weather site you will see HLA for February (image). If this is or could be always for the current month, ie heading derived from the month, AND have a year on year comparison by having data from 12 months ago underneath it would be quite useful. So in other words have February’s (March, April etc) Data heading and H/L/A underneath and then underneath that another heading for the same month a year ago and H/L/A data from that month making 8 rows which is what Snow uses. I like the idea on the McGee site but it doesn’t go far enough because the H/L/A data is meaningless as it’s not comparable against anything. But if I could see how the current month compares to last year, whether it is warmer or colder and at a glance, then I think that is worth having. It does at least seem to fit, following on down from Summary/Temperature.
Too fanciful and a coding headache? Are there even tags to cater for it? Better suggestions anyone? I for one don’t need snow but practically every kind of information is already catered for making it difficult to usefully fill that space.
If using “straight out of the box” with the customary changes at the top I don’t see anywhere to stop using the gizmo which generates Fatal error: Cannot redeclare gen_difference() (previously declared in /home/content…
Oh no!!! I was just about finished doing the ML version and now you come with a better version. Is there any way to merge the work I did other than copy/paste?
Your dashboard ML is up. Care to take a loo? It seems to be a bit wider. Is there a fix for it? I just noticed that I still missed a couple of translations.
Looks good but the fire index images are not found so it’s making the last column way too wide! It is expecting to see the fire graphics in a folder called images directly off the main folder. You can change the folder in the code if you want. Once you fix that I think it will work good for you!
The images are in the /images and the . jpeg type is used. I did not chage anything in the code for the images section. They still do not show. If you go to the French version the whole dashboard also gets wider. Any suggestions?
For some reason it’s not finding it, it’s looking in: http://www.meteolanaudiere.com/images/Fire0.jpg for that specific image. When I look for that image it shows that there is a Fire0.GIF there, not the JPG. I think that is what happened. Check your folder and make sure the jpeg versions are there and I bet it works for you!
Thanks Scott. It was the only image that had not uploaded in the bunch. So that is solved but now when I switch to the french version the whole dashboard gets very wide as before. Any ideas?
That one I can’t help with, I did not put anything in the modifications I made so it could be used with other languages yet. (Mainly because I haven’t had the time to look into how to doing that yet!) Perhaps in future versions I will make that part of the script. Sorry about that.
I want to get rid of the Local Station Forecast on my main page. I tdo have the $vpforecasttext in my testtags. If I get rid of that would that portion go away or do I have to do something else.
Hi Scott, once again, you’ve done a great job on this. I installed with few issues that I cleared up easily.
One problem I have is when I load my page, I see the conditions icon in its large form first, then when ajax updates the page, it goes back to the smaller size. Is there something I did wrong?
There are two places the size is set, one in the dashboard and the other in the java script. If you open the java script in a text aditor you will see the size at like 48 instread of the like 78. I’m at work right now so I can’t get to examples but it’s pretty easy to change. I’ll reply tonight with exact locations if you don’t find them.
