Over the next few days while I learn the back end of the forums there may be some small changes in appearance - ultimately I hope to get rid of the ugly default theme and find something more suitable for our group, while retaining the features we need and removing the stuff we don't.
Until then, here's a new emoticon for you:
:birdy:
In general, are folks interested in having a basic, functional forum, or something a little more complex with bells and whistles? I'd appreciate it if you posted in this thread with your thoughts.
I would personally want just a bit more complex, but nothing like drop down menu and flash complex.
Thanks Acco + Felix for letting me know that non-admins couldn't post in this thread!
One of the first things I'm going to take care of is the broken links you see above some avatars on the left.
oops... found this after I sent the PM.
Anyways... complexity is perfectly fine, so long as I can still browse the forum on my mobile phone.
I have a smartphone, so I don't get the text-only version of the site when I browse. But, we once had a forum with a bunch of mouse-over effects that made my phone hate the site, and I had to switch to a different theme to be able to use it from my phone.
Think you could fix that typo on the left that says "Date Registerd:" or even remove it completely? (It's not really necessary to have that on every forum post, when you can view it in the profile.)
Will do - I'm unable to make changes to the site until late tonight, but I'll refer back to this thread.
: Unition February 19, 2010, 12:42:34 -07:00
here's a new emoticon for you:
:birdy:
That bird is driving me nutz while I'm trying to think about what I'm typing... Wouldn't be so bad if there was an emoticon dropdown, but jeez...
hehe there is worst emoticons than that bird
It is the only one on this board that is distracting when I'm trying to post.
(http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm281/alleycat009/random/webcam.gif)
Mon dieu D:
But, I think analysis is a better theme to break from to do stuff with. It's darker and has a certain degree of flashiness without being really slow. (Then again, all you have to do is switch your browser to something not IE8, cause every other browser's javascript implementation is much much faster. ;p)
Random epic change of forums when i change the page much? ^-^
You saw nothing!
I saw everything, You Lies!!! :P
(http://tradersunion.ca/photos/idbv61.gif)
: Accophox February 20, 2010, 12:15:38 -07:00
Mon dieu D:
What does that mean?
Anyways, Analasys makes it impossible to navigate on my phone. It does look nice though.
Oddly, Urban DOES work on my phone, even with all the mouseover crap. The menus actually show. I was surprised. Though, black and orange is kinda halloweenie. A theme recolour may be in order. :P I did that once myself with a certain theme for phpBB, like 5 years ago.
Urban is a nice theme. But it needs to be reworked and I think that it was also designed to have a front newspage too.
Yup, plus it, and most others need their logos changed to our board logo that we don't have yet.
If you're interested in some of the modifications I did on ontariofurries.ca I'll let you know how I got them in there.