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Offline casper

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« on: December 22, 2006, 09:44:01 AM »
Over the Christmas break I'm going to change the forum. The look and of it will be different because I'm going to change to a different piece of software. The new software appears to have everything that is used in this forum built-in, wereas I've had to change code to get this forum to do what the other already has.



Anyway hopefully the transition will be painless - I've already changed over one of my other forums and after a few teething problems it seems to be working ok :)
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« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2006, 09:46:46 AM »
Good luck with that Casper!



I hope you dont lose too many of the countless words of wisdom held here during the change over. :)
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« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2006, 09:50:06 AM »
Nothing should be lost. The one I've already converted doesn't seem to have lost anything, touch wood :) . Click the link in my signature and go to the forum to see it in action.
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Re: Changing Forum
« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2006, 12:19:11 AM »
Ok. I've the conversion done and it looks like everything has gone well. Let me know if you have any problems.
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Re: Changing Forum
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2007, 10:08:26 PM »
It looks very good Casper, I hope it lessens the headaches. ;D
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Re: Changing Forum
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2007, 09:22:35 AM »
Does this forum accept uploaded avatars? If so, what are the max pixel/file size?
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« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2007, 09:39:35 AM »
You should be able to upload an avatar. The dimensions are max 80x80
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Re: Changing Forum
« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2007, 11:59:30 AM »
Casper,

Very neat and tidy Forum area. I am slightly jealous. Extremely easy to use and very functional. I think C2K HELP will become very popular now so I hope you have plenty of SQL space!!!!

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« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2007, 12:07:38 PM »
Thanks Seamus. I have unlimited bandwidth & webserver space :)
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Re: Changing Forum
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2007, 08:38:25 PM »
I think I preferred the old forum software. To be specific:

1 I miss the way forum sections that had new postings since one's last visit were in red, so I could quickly scan for new posts.

2 Within each section and in each thread, entries seemed to be more compact with less white space between entries in the old version.

3 Also I think more of the text (headings and stuff) was in black, or at least emboldened somehow. A lot of the text in the new version seems washed out.


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« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2007, 09:16:10 AM »
Hi Byte
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1 I miss the way forum sections that had new postings since one's last visit were in red, so I could quickly scan for new posts.
WHen there are new posts in a forum section the icon changes from a floppy disk to a CD
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