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gweilo8888

Joined: 2005-08-12
Posts: 4
Posted: Fri, 2005-11-18 18:52

I have to say, I quite like the styling of this forum. Is it a custom solution, or a standard forum, do you mind me asking?

 
h0bbel
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Joined: 2002-07-28
Posts: 13451
Posted: Fri, 2005-11-18 19:45

It's the standard Drupal forums, with a specially made theme for us.


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funkoolow

Joined: 2003-10-19
Posts: 13
Posted: Wed, 2006-01-04 17:49

is it possible to have that theme for ours too? :)

 
motumbo

Joined: 2006-06-11
Posts: 6
Posted: Sun, 2006-06-11 17:28

I registered for the forum because I wanted to ask what the forum script was. This is an awesome looking forum! The script/software driving it looks pretty good, too.

 
rkn

Joined: 2006-09-13
Posts: 2
Posted: Wed, 2006-09-13 12:13

It would be great if the forum designer could share a couple of tips, i'd really like to know:

1. How you get page number nav to display at the top as well as bottom of topics
2. The jump to last post icon on the topic listing page
3. The posted by and topic icon/url at the top of each post instead of the default drupal stuff.

Thanks for any help!

 
mindless
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Joined: 2004-01-04
Posts: 8601
Posted: Mon, 2006-09-18 21:37

1. most of our theme changes are done reasonably well, but your first question is a real hack.. we have a themename_pager function which gets theme_pager output then returns <tr><td>$pager</td></tr>$pager
Our forum layout is in a table.. so the $pager inside the <td> shows in the normal location at the bottom.. the one in an invalid location (not inside a <td>) magically gets rendered above the <table>! at least by gecko, IE, opera.

2. themename_forum_list function overrides the default display and adds that link.

3. our node template for forums is fully customized

That's about all the detail we'll give.. try the drupal.org forums for more help on drupal themes, thanks.

 
rkn

Joined: 2006-09-13
Posts: 2
Posted: Thu, 2006-09-21 14:20

Thanks very much for the help :)

 
Flic Flak
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Joined: 2006-09-22
Posts: 4
Posted: Fri, 2006-09-22 23:47

Is there a central place where various url's are listed of Gallery users as samples of what has been done? I would like to see what others feel about my site as well as look at what others have done with theirs.

Michael Kienitz
photography•digital imaging•video production

www.michaelkienitz.com

 
mindless
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Posts: 8601
Posted: Sat, 2006-09-23 00:32
 
meow

Joined: 2006-12-19
Posts: 26
Posted: Fri, 2006-12-22 17:04

I don't like how this forum totally ignores <br> tags or new lines. It looks like crap when you've written a nice looking post. All the paragraphing is gone.

 
h0bbel
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Joined: 2002-07-28
Posts: 13451
Posted: Fri, 2006-12-22 20:26

Use BBCode and not HTML.


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valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Fri, 2006-12-22 23:47

meow

yep, i agree. i don't like that either. also i think it didn't do that in this forum from the beginning. maybe a change in drupal.

 
mindless
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Joined: 2004-01-04
Posts: 8601
Posted: Sat, 2006-12-23 16:23

yes, any change in this handling was not intentional.
i did a quick check and it appears the markup is ok (one newline makes a <br/>, 2 newlines wraps a <p>aragraph), so maybe the css changed.. i'll look into it when i get a chance.

test: this has a blank line above it

 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Sat, 2006-12-23 16:31

2 newlines make a paragraph? not sure if that's truly intuitive and in the intent of the content authors.
how can user actually add more newlines if really wants to?

 
mindless
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Joined: 2004-01-04
Posts: 8601
Posted: Sat, 2006-12-23 17:15

the change was very recent, 17-Dec. it was intended to affect spacing in lists, not paragraphs. i changed the paragraph setting back.

one blank line above.

two blank lines above.

three blank lines above.
these are all just treated as paragraphs and spaced accordingly. why would you need more blank space than that in a forum post?

 
george9t8

Joined: 2007-02-06
Posts: 129
Posted: Wed, 2007-03-28 11:48

I think this forum is quite archaic.

In comparison I think the POTN one (http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/index.php) looks a lot better. Two features it has which are missing here:

View counts
You can see the beginning of the post if you hover over the subject (a very useful feature).

Also, when I post a new thread here I get a massive gap between the text window and the submit button.

my gallery

 
mindless
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Joined: 2004-01-04
Posts: 8601
Posted: Thu, 2007-03-29 06:22

Thanks for your input.

 
ruigato

Joined: 2006-07-26
Posts: 27
Posted: Tue, 2007-04-10 20:23

my 2 cents on this:

I think you shoul upgrade to a better forum script like simplemachines/vbulletin/invision.

Especialy simplemachines has a great community and advanced features. There are some features missing here like a better forum search engine, forum rss and especialy forum/post subscription. We could for instance subscrive one anouncement forum to keep up the updates.
A stronger forum script woul be great for an even better comunnity inside Gallery.

I dont mean to sound critical with this reply, i am just used to the foruns like in joomla.org, coppermine-gallery.net, etc and i think the script itself helps much the interaction in the forum.

Tks and keep up the good work.

 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Mon, 2007-07-30 13:27
saska wrote:
so when upgrade forum ?
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This forum here? There's no plan to switch to another forum solution in the near future. We're pretty happy with it.

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Documentation: Support / Troubleshooting | Installation, Upgrade, Configuration and Usage

 
pctec

Joined: 2007-07-29
Posts: 5
Posted: Mon, 2007-07-30 13:53

I think it looks just fine the way it is... its unique :D