DesignWorldwide Forum - new meaning to 'completely' custmized

[Dimitrix]

Hey guys,
This is my new community. It was up before as Vb3 beta but then database went under so Im restarting the community after a few months downtime.

DesignWorldWide.com
http://www.designworldwide.com

Some cool stuff:
Front: http://www.designworldwide.com/images/img1.gif
Forum: http://www.designworldwide.com/images/img2.gif
Postbit w/ Reply box: http://www.designworldwide.com/images/img3.gif
Completely redid the profile look (postbit look for it): http://www.designworldwide.com/images/img4.gif

Its a design forum and obviously big images WILL get posted, so I made this hack to protect the board from getting messed up (stretched out, etc.):
http://www.designworldwide.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35

AND new addition as of yesterday:
Journal-Blog system (whatever you want to call it)
Im pretty sure its still buggy in some parts but its funcitonal, compeltely skinable and integrated into Vb. Images:

In UserCP: http://www.designworldwide.com/images/blog1.gif
In BlogCP (when you click on the title of entry it opens up the actual entry under it.. a little CSS work to preserve space): http://www.designworldwide.com/images/blog2.gif
Settings & Template: http://www.designworldwide.com/images/blog3.gif

Eventually I want to make template system more advanced with more functions, but I think it works pretty good now. Just coded in comments system and forgot a function that lets journal owners to delete comments they dislike :p More coming later.

Check out my final templated blog:
http://www.designworldwide.com/forum/blog.php?userid=1
or
http://dimitry.designworldwide.com

Whatcha think? Anything I could improve on?
Thanks
Dimitry

[edit]
While you're checking out the forum, can anyone explain to me how to upgrade manually? Id like to stay on top of the vb's security fixes but auto upgrade will definatly mess me up (you know how it is). Thanks

[AlexanderT]

Dimitrix, I think you did a fantastic job!

One thing I noticed however... scrolling within this page:
http://www.designworldwide.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35

on my P4 1.7 notebook is very slow.

Greets
Alex

[Dimitrix]

Dimitrix, I think you did a fantastic job!

One thing I noticed however... scrolling within this page:
http://www.designworldwide.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35

on my P4 1.7 notebook is very slow.

Greets
Alex

Interesting, I loaded it up in IE (I dont usually use it, just for testing) and I too noticed a little bit of lag. Probably because the big pictures ARE loaded, they are just in the background & invisible. Maybe the way IE renders <div>s is making it lag. Works fine in Firefox (Mozilla).

Some people suggested making the big image popup in a new window when clicked on that button. Personally I dont think that would be a good idea with all the popup blockers these days, but it easily could be done.

Thanks
Dimitry

[Razor]

It wouldn't be my choice of colors, but it looks nice and clean. The postbit is awesome and you get bonus points for having a different look than most forums. Good job.

[defi]

Very nice. The style is clean cut and attractive at that :p

[Tony G]

The design is very nice and unique. I especially like your postbit, but it's slow/laggy when it loads. Might want to fix that up somehow.

[SVTBlackLight01]

Attractively unique. Nice work!

Have you released that big image pop-up hack here?

[K33nny]

I like your style Dimitri. I'm forever trying to do something different, you're the only one that I've seen actually take it to new lengths.