Styling Registration Form page

We're looking into why the JomSocial tooltips are causing those issues. It looks like there's a CSS sheet that we're missing. Not sure if that's a change with one of JomSocial's more recent releases or something else.

As for redirecting to JomSocial's registration process, that's simply not possible. They use completely different forums that expect different information. Once we 'hand off' the registration process, we'd no longer be in control. By then, we'd have already had to create the user in the database and, if JomSocial sees the user already has an account, they won't allow them to register again. It's simply not possible and explains why every extension that does registration basically has their own registration form.

We are looking into ways to cleanup the registration/login page. If you have suggestions, we'd love to hear them. We do accomodate a lot of other systems other than just JomSocial, so we need methods that work for all, but that's not a huge limitation. One of our greatest features is that we can hide fields that are being imported from LinkedIn. The idea for social networking logins is that the process should be 'quicker' and have less forms/fields to fill out, not more. Your overall registration rate increases by something like 10% for each field you're able to remove during registration and something like 50% for each page that is removed. Multi-page registration forms can be a killer. There's lots of studies out there about reg flows and signup rates.

Again though, we agree there are improvements to be had, and hope to roll some changes out over the next few months.

Thanks,
Alex

There will be some improvements to the layout, but a full overhaul is unlikely. There are some classes on elements that will be improved to be better inherited from templates.

As for being able to show/hide the login area or making it more vertical, that likely won't be an option. We can help you make changes to the current template if you'd like to alter it's layout now.

We are looking into the JomSocial tooltip issue though and should have that fixed with, or around, the new release.

Thanks,
Alex

Stuart / Tom,
Just wanted to let you know the newest version of JLinked was just posted. This fixes a few issues with JLinked and is recommended for that alone. Additionally though, we've updated the Login / Register form that both of you are... not so fond of. There's now:
1) A new option in the Configuration area for how that page is displayed:
* Horizontal - how it has been
* Vertical - the login area in a horizontal section at the very top with the registration area in a full-width area underneath (Think you'll like this)
* Register only - No login area at all, just the registration area in a full width area.
2) A separate CSS stylesheet for that page in /components/com_jlinked/views/loginregister/tmpl/loginregister.css That file can be overridden in your template (explained in the file itself) so you can have a lot more control over how that page looks.
3) An updated JomSocial plugin (other profile plugins coming soon) which has better formatting of the labels and inputs

Hope that all helps, and please let us know how it goes after you get things up and running!

Thanks for all your feedback,
Alex

Stuart,
Unfortunately, we somehow missed removing a style from the view, so we'll likely put out another point release to fix that, but below is an image of what it looks like with that fixed. It's a simple matter of editing /components/com_jlinked/views/loginregister/tmpl/default.php, searching for "45" and removing that whole style of "width: 45%; float:left". When done, with the JomSocial profile plugin enabled, the register form will look something like:

Even with the style left in, it will look better than before, but a little squished onto the left hand side of the screen. Again, all of the styles are overrideable through a new CSS file, so if you have issues with a certain field, you can easily add specific styles to clean it up now.

Finally, that picture is of the 'vertical' mode. The "Register Only" mode removes the login area from the top altogether. The register portion will look the same.

Would definitely like your feedback. We haven't looked at the Login / Register page in, admittedly, too long of time. Hopefully this is a move in the right direction!

Thanks,
Alex