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Devise is a great rails authentication solution, with a very active mailing list and team of contributors. Given its modular, pluggable design, simple installation, I predict it will become the "standard" authentication module, (assuming someone steps up to the plate for MongoMapper/DataMapper support for Rails 3, anyone?).
A minor issue on Rails 2.3 is that Devise (v1.0) doesn't allow you to override the content_type of the emails it sends. (I believe its fixed for Rails 3.0). Given the content type defaults to 'text/html', unless you like to cause yourself (and your users) some grief with html emails, and plain text emails will suffice, then read on. I've patched Devise 1.0 to enable you to override this default behaviour in your config/initializers/devise.rb fileUPDATE: Its been merged into Devise v1.0.2 http://github.com/plataformatec/devise/commit/23568bda82d04062615b79570949ed4ff18b039d
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We're using PlataformaTec's fantastic Devise for user authentication in our Rails projects, despite being long-standing supporters of Authlogic for a long time. We found Devise to be far easier to set up and you get great stuff right out of the box, the automatic authentication emails, password reset forms, and very simple to configure authentication strategies to name a few.
It also works great with Declarative_Authorization (if you are masochistic enough to use Declarative_Authorization in the first place). On to the topic of todays insightful blog post: upgrading from 0.8.2 to v1.0. Jose, the big-man-on-campus @ Plataforma tells us we should upgrade cos of a few significant bugs. Ok, lets do this. becomesComments [0]
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Your website is often the first point of contact for so many people and most people who have found their way to your site will navigate away too easily if there’s not something there to hold their attention. Good graphics are important of course, but what else helps to hold the attention of your reader?
Make your homepage feel like home
This is your opportunity to make a good first impression, making it too flashy or with too much content on it could result in an information overload.
Get people to come back, and back, and back
Once you’ve managed to get someone to come to your website once, you have to have something attractive to the reader to make them come back again.
Content
Make sure your content is credible and original. Try to provide new relevant content on a regular basis, so that there is something new for your reader when they come back to your site. Your content also determines the strength of your presence on search engines, and with so many people using search engines every day it’s important to make your presence felt.
Here are some ideas for keeping your content up to date:
Navigation
Link positioning should be logical, and when you click them they should redirect you to the right place. Siyelo does extensive testing to make sure that what your website does what it promises, and your software developer should offer this service too. The layout should be intuitive, and there should be a flow through your site which makes your audience feel instantly comfortable. Try not to litter your pages with hundreds of links.
Try to view the website from the customer’s perspective - if you were a customer how would you want to interact with the site?
Design
The visuals of a site are important, but unless they are supported by compelling content, easy navigation and good solid coding, visuals on their own won’t be able to attract people to your site and keep them coming back.
There are some annoying things that can make people navigate away immediately:
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