Begun BETA testing Forum site integration

[Jackanape]

Check out the Archives for what I mean. I need to stop now, but I will review all templates over the weekend, and have the Archives completely integrated. Once that's done, I'll do the main forums...it's mostly a test of the system before going live on the main forums.

Sword, is the weekend still the main ETA for the rest of the site?

[Swordfish]

Yeah, I think why not. But we have to get toghether and upload all of the addons. If the 1.25 is to be released we should upload that aswell...as soon as it's ready. I want to have all the pages up and running contentwise before we make anything official.

So main thing during this weekend is the following:
1. Upload as many Addons as possible.
2. Add text to About/Contact page
3. Freshing up the front page with a news profile

...keep up to date on progress here.

How do we organise the adding of addons? I'm really not up to the task of putting all of them in myself. Have enough work getting the site up and running as it is. And I havent even begun the work of making shure everything looks good everywhere...looks great on a mac

[Jackanape]

Yeah, I think why not. But we have to get toghether and upload all of the addons. If the 1.25 is to be released we should upload that aswell...as soon as it's ready. I want to have all the pages up and running contentwise before we make anything official.

Agreed. This weekend is a good time to make it happen.

How do we organise the adding of addons? I'm really not up to the task of putting all of them in myself. Have enough work getting the site up and running as it is. And I havent even begun the work of making shure everything looks good everywhere...looks great on a mac

Dale has compiled a great list of addons, and hosted most of them up til now. If we can get together, I'd be happy to handle all the transfers of files...

This is also something that can be done in increments, I suppose. I think your content is most important right now.

Site looks good on PC firefox, by the way, and looks good in IE7. I will check with IE6 and other browsers over the weekend, as well...

[Gilbert]

Quick two suggestions for the people that work !

Is the easiest or quickest solution now not to supply the link to the current add-on download page ? No need to reinvent the wheel. This would allow new users to also "discover" dales web-site...

It would be a good idea to install Feather's phpBB Comments add-on as it would further integrate the news section and the forum

[Jackanape]

Dale has communicated that his solution was always meant as a stop-gap measure, until we could get things going here. The addon library will be a major undertaking, but it's something that we can get done a few at a time, until the task is completed.

I'm unfamiliar with Feathers' addon, I think it sounds pretty good, though, let me take a look at it.

As an observation, next week will mark the first month of this site's existence, and the week after that, the one month anniversary of going it alone without CTUS.

Seems to me we're making incredible progress for just a few weeks.

I'm thinking next week will be another great leap forward for Coranto, as the Sourceforge project is finalized, and we can start reaching out to everyone about upgrading their installations.

[Swordfish]

I think that we|ll supply the link to dales page as long as all the addons isn't added yet. Once the addon list is finished we can remove the link.

The integration between the site and forum is a great idea and can be put on the todo list...in fact I think I'll do that right now Things will get better...in time.

I believe that sunday will be my working day for the things that need working on. Hopefully you'll be there too Jack. about the Explorer...small things look different in IE6 that I can see. Some fonts are different, especially the menu. Font is very light. But as I said, I haven't worked on it at all yet so it'll be good to the end.

Okay...dinner!

[Dale Ray]

Just a note about the addon downloads:

Where possible I linked to the author's site for the addon downloads.

If no other source of the addon was available I hosted it on my site.

Feel free to copy the descriptions of the addons. Where I was not familiar with an addon I installed it locally and looked at it briefly.

[SrNupsen]

The forum integration looks kind of weird to me when viewinga thread:

[image removed because it fudged up the layout of the page]

Using Firefox 1.5.0.9 on Ubuntu.

[Jackanape]

The forum integration looks kind of weird to me when viewinga thread:

I haven't changed anything but the templates for the front page, to judge it there first.

There are still about a dozen templates I need to finish up with...I will see to that tonight when I get home!

[SrNupsen]

OK - just reporting one time too much

[Jackanape]

Should be completely finished now...

Try searching, looking at posts, topics, forums, profiles, etc...

Let me know what I missed, although I think everything is in place.

If this works, I'll work up a solution for the main forums--this will be bigger, due to the fact that the main forum has many more pages to check in with...

[SrNupsen]

Looks impecable to me.

[Gilbert]

Perfect on Camino – Mac OS

[Creative_z]

IE6.0

[Jackanape]

IE and its blasted bugs...I'll look at this tomorrow.