It's a small part of rating improvements I made recently for one of my dear clients.
 
Every popular website has a few angry maniacs browsing pictures, videos, profiles and giving them one star rating. Nobody deserves 1!
Let's consider those guys as psychos and won't record their votes to database but still giving them illusion rating has been recorded.
 
O…

Ok, let's automate our star sign selection with the help of jQuery and for the sake of our users.
 
1. Add this function to your misc.js (it's location is /includes/js/)
 
Javascript
// calculate sun sign
function calc_sunsign()
{
       
        var month = $('#field_age_month…

In this tutorial I'm going to explain nice way of creating zodiac fields and displaying zodiac sign in member's profile page.
 
1. First of all go and find some good zodiac icons. Free or paid.
Here's a couple of useful links in case you don't know how to use Google:
http://roundpixel.org/?p=69, Free zodiac icons by Ken Saunders
 
If you are too lazy…

I hate upsetting my users that's why my member_sectios_links.tpl usually looks like this:
 
...
<!-- IF settings.enable_blogs AND member_total_blogs > "0" -->
<li><a href="{virtual_path}{member_blog_link}" <!-- IF active_module == "member_blog" OR active_module == "member_blog_entry" -->class="active"<!-- ENDIF -->>{lang:"member","fr…

Today morning I decided to improve vldCrowd user experience and then share my findings.
 
It's so disappointing for user to find out that there is a character limit for textarea after he/she clicked submit button adding blog, comment or sending message.
 
Let's keep user informed about how many characters left. I googled for some nice "chars left" solution and fou…