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Because some people have subsidiary airlines that pilots can use as well, so it saves an entirely new setup. Calling it a cloud pilot centre is pointless though.
I agree as you are essentially lying to your pilots as a marketing strategy. That's all it is is marketing unless you actually put the time, money, and hard labor into making it a functional system.
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Forgive me if this shows how old or out of touch I am but I have seen the phrase "Cloud Based Pilot Center" twice over the last few days. What is this? Is this simply a reworked version or idea of the old IFE that seemed to be popular for a bit?
Like this?
http://forum.phpvms.net/topic/5393-in-flight-entertainment-system/
http://forum.phpvms.net/topic/7863-whats-with-ife-dont-get-it/
Well there are apparently 2 definitions of a "Cloud Based Pilot Center" now.
The original idea and one authentic to the definition of cloud based, is basically having your pilot center files, hosted on another server generally your developer's with the idea of if your site goes down, pilots can access the pilot center still, and it has a layout and style other than your main websites.
Unfortunately, after one VA successfully implemented the idea, a bunch of "lower class" VA's decided to do a knockoff with a separate install of phpVMS on their server linked to the main websites database. Basically a 2nd site with a different skin.
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I would need to see your exact code and get a better idea of what you want, but what you could do is make a variable and conditional to display new content in the footer when your in the pilot center. I have not tested this on the phpVMS framework, but give it a go.
In your profile_main.tpl file above anything else put the following
<?php $pcfooter = 'profile'; ?>
Make a file in your active skin folder named footer.php, anything you want displayed put in this file.
Now go to your layout.tpl and where you want the content from the footer.php displayed, put
<?php if($pcfooter == 'profile') {echo "<?php include ('lib/skins/SKIN NAME/footer.php') ; } ?>
I am really tired and my mind went off as I am on vacation so if my syntax is off excuse me, my mind has gone to mush.
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Congrats to you my friend. It is very ambitious to add an American representation to the VA market, but the one thing I respect more than anything is a respectable CEO. I have very high hopes and expectations of you. Good luck!
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Good day, but tbh if you have no interest in the hobby then going around the forums and adding mush to people's topics who are presenting their successes that they are ultimately proud of because you have nothing better to do "at the end of the day" sounds like a troll to me. G'day sir!
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Jon it's interesting you make that point. I find it quite astonishing how quick you are to jump to conclusions with my motives.. Well technically since I am in high school you could consider me an English student, I don't think we have anything in common there based on your on you're inproper sentence conventions.
I don't see why there needs to be any doubt in our design unless you have seen another virtual airline with our design. This statement you made suggests that every website you see that claims to be unique you have a good laugh at, I hope you don't get too hurt... You are the only person who has had a negative response to our statement and as a representative of Redwood VA, I want to ensure you don't continue to have a poor response to our operations and website. We can't please everyone, but we sure listen to everyone.
Do take care and I hope you achieve your virtual mission with whatever you may be looking for!
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I think I just fell off my chair
I see 2 possible things you may have been referring to in this good laugh...
1. That I referred to this as an "industry" in which I did use quotes suggesting that I do not imply the literal definition of the word. There are pleanty of paid services in this community, whether that really has much to do with the economy, I doubt it.
2. You are questioning the uniqueness of my virtual airline in a very immature and passive aggressive way. I am perfectly comfortable with reiterating "There is no other virtual airline in this community like ours." I think it would be very difficult to laugh at that statement if you took the front-end design solely into account. I am going to assume you did very little research based on your very simplistic commentary and we're referring to us using phpVMS. Yes we use phpVMS as a base on our backend like hundred maybe thousands of VA's haha yes I see why you might get a little chuckle out of that if you think about a fresh install and some noob who says they code by changing some front-end CSS. No we have modified the framework of our registration system, flight logging and pirep system, and multiple administrative functions to better manage pilot accounts. Not to mention the countless expansions we have coded unique to our virtual airline.
Thanks for you input and if you have any other questions regarding my statement, feel free to let everyone know your "assumption and good laughs" or you can contact our management directly at coo@redwoodva.net
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You are allowed to use colours outside of your scheme. Changing the colours on something so common as Google Maps can get confusing.
Regarding navigation, I'd say your Prospective drop-down fits the typical understanding of drop-down navigation. The others perhaps not as much.
Being consistently inconsistent doesn't count
- I'm talking about the inconsistencies in drop-down style, size, link style, presence of link rollover feedback. Bringing these more in line with each other would be a lot better for general usability and user experience.Good points Tom, but we wanted to be unique. There is no other organization in this "industry" that has a website that looks like ours, has many of the features of ours, and with so many virtual airline websites we needed to do something different. We wanted to focus on a certain selection of colors instead of using many I think it works quite well for our site.
Is it where the Red is used that feels to much, the quantity, the shade?
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It's just too big.
Why can't you just have a normal navigation bar, like you do on the prospective bit?
Why do you need to have that massive twitter icon in it?
I know this is called 'redwood', but you don't have to go overboard, the red on the map burns my eyes.
I am afraid sir that the concept of a mega menu is nothing new. Our color scheme is Red, White, and Silver. I am not sure what you want us to do as any other color would be off setting.
The water is lava!
Couple of relevant points on UI design for usability re: your nav:
- Familiarity: use what people already know to your advantage. Redesigning what they know about website navigation won't work in your favour.
- Consistency: pick a way of doing something and do it that way everywhere all the time.
What have I redesigned about what people know about website navigation? Have I been inconsistent throughout the website?
- Familiarity: use what people already know to your advantage. Redesigning what they know about website navigation won't work in your favour.
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Wouldn't it be nice if you put powerd by: phpvms in the footer as well. Give Nabeel the credit he deserves for creating such a good piece of code for the VA world. One thing I would say about the design, I find the nav quite difficult to navigate around. Also try to put some code in that hides links to pages that you need to be registered to view. It can be quite off putting to see error messages saying you have to be logged in. But good luck with your VA.
What part of the navigation is difficult to navigate around? I am not discounting your opinion, but having been the first person to say this I am curious on what you think could be improved?
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In your file manager go to core/local.config.php and on Line 75 where it says ACARS Live ime change it from 720 to 5. That way your acars map with reset after 5 minutes
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.awards {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 95%;
}
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It doesn't work syntax error. Unexpected "<" on line 5
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I have not changed anything on my website, I went to login this evening and my website is throwing out this error when loggin in and logging out.
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With the following script <?php MainController::Run('PIREPS', 'RecentFrontPage', 5); ?> it displays the last 5 pireps submitted. I am trying to modify the frontpage_reports.tpl file so it displays that users last 5 fives flights instead of everyones.
Can someone please help me out with this? Thanks
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Redwood Virtual is a community oriented virtual airline representing Virgin America as closely as possible. As of today we have been open our first month, and as a way to embrace this moment, I would like to share with you our current standing, developers notes, and future plans.
Redwood Virtual Statistics:
Active Pilots: 50
Completed Flights: 53
Average Daily Website Visits: 327
Average Daily Flight Team Applications: 1.6
Developers Notes:
Main Website Backend System: Redwood Virtual currently utilizes the open source phpVMS system. Our IT Team has modified multiple areas in order to enhance security, improve reliability, and enable ease to build in new functions and features.
ACARS: We are using smartCARS developed by TFDI Design as our sponsored flight tracker. Within the next few weeks, we will be opening beta testing on our own In-House flight tracker VXCARS.
Future Plans
*Acars: We plan to be transitioned to our In-House flight tracker VXCARS by late August early September
*Codeshare Routes: We do not have plans to add in codeshare routes directly, but are considering the option to charter Virgin Atlantic (VIR) and Virgin Australia (VOZ) starting January 2015
*Partnerships & Giveaways: We are currently attempting to contact FlightBeam and Aerosoft with the hopes to be able to award our Flight Team with some awesome addons based around Redwood VA. This will be available when we launch the Elevate Pilot Program "The Pilot Program, Pilot Like!"
I would like to give a special thanks to our Chief Operations Officer Dan True for his innovative ideas he has brought to Redwood VA to help us grow in our first month.
#VXAmerica
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Hey Chase and crew,
Redwood's site doesn't load when I try to access it. I've refreshed, cleared cache, and stuff, but it hasn't worked. I'm on the latest version of Safari on OS X Mavericks, if you need that information. Just wanted to admire your great design work on the site again
Thanks in advance
Wow this is late I apologize. Is it loading fine now?
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Try something like
<?php
$month_info->timestamp = time();
?>
<?php
if($finances = FinanceData::calculateFinances($month_info)) {echo $finances->revenue; }
?>
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Its interesting you bring this to my attention PilotChase. I am well aware that many pilots and controllers would rather spend their time flying on VATSIM or IVAO which is more than expected seeing as the operate large quantities of traffic in a fairly real environment held on just a few servers. I am proposing that these organisations become a huge aspect in my project and hopefully will progress further, by developing a much more convenient and improved network which can be joined with the other software, developers could be working on for us.
I hope that people will not see this as a "trying to beat VATSIM" way of looking at this but more of an innovative new way that could possibly work much better and be more relevant to the advancing technology we work along side.
You still haven't told us what you mean by developing an improved network. What could be more simple? You download one client and connect? That is the most simplistic way of creating a network and client connection. Excuse my boldness...
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Just thought I would let you know Team Tree House is coming out with a Laravel course next month
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I think we are going to need a bit more information on what this is. To make sure you aren't trying to reinvent VATSIM or IVAO or FSOpen
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Do you offer custom layouts? Like for a much higher price would you be willing to offer many more visual alterations and customization's of the UI?
- I'm talking about the inconsistencies in drop-down style, size, link style, presence of link rollover feedback. Bringing these more in line with each other would be a lot better for general usability and user experience.
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