2nd Gen Camaro Forums

[Action-N]

Hello, I the rules didn't mention anything about boards under construction, so I'll post mine. I'm looking for comments toward what I have now an not my lack of members or content. That an since I only have IE to view my forums it'd be interesting to know how it looks for othe browsers.

2nd Gen Camaro Forums (http://www.action-forums.com)

[Johnny]

well i like it, its a good design for those 56kers, loads really fast and looks clean.

[SVTBlackLight01]

It looks great. How did you get the thumbnails to appear on the front page?

[Action-N]

It looks great. How did you get the thumbnails to appear on the front page?

Here is my newsbit template, I made a new template called news that works like the other cmps features. As you can see from the image link I simply premade all the thumbnails according to my forums subject an saved them as the forum number. Stuck them in a directory an now when somebody makes a post the subject image shows next to the thread. My opinion this template is better, those big defualt template are big wastes of space. You can see more news without so much scrolling. It's all about giving them more info to see without scrolling a three page front page.


<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 13px; WIDTH: 100%">
<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/showthread.php?t=$news[threadid]"> <img style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 4px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 8px" height=60 alt="" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/$news[forumid].jpg" width=80 align=left border=0></a>
<a class="contentLinkMediumBold" href="$vboptions[bburl]/showthread.php?t=$news[threadid]">$news[title]</a> <br />

<span style="COLOR: #000000">$news[message]
<span class="time">&nbsp;&nbsp;($dateposted)</span></span>
<span class="spacer6"><br /></span></div>

[HiDeo]

You made some good modifications !

Nice job ;)

[Johnny]

Here is my newsbit template, I made a new template called news that works like the other cmps features. As you can see from the image link I simply premade all the thumbnails according to my forums subject an saved them as the forum number. Stuck them in a directory an now when somebody makes a post the subject image shows next to the thread. My opinion this template is better, those big defualt template are big wastes of space. You can see more news without so much scrolling. It's all about giving them more info to see without scrolling a three page front page.


<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 13px; WIDTH: 100%">
<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/showthread.php?t=$news[threadid]"> <img style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 4px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 8px" height=60 alt="" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/$news[forumid].jpg" width=80 align=left border=0></a>
<a class="contentLinkMediumBold" href="$vboptions[bburl]/showthread.php?t=$news[threadid]">$news[title]</a> <br />

<span style="COLOR: #000000">$news[message]
<span class="time">&nbsp;&nbsp;($dateposted)</span></span>
<span class="spacer6"><br /></span></div>



thats interesting on what you did, but how did you know what the forum number is when making the news post?

[Action-N]

Well i't pretty somple really, the poster doesn't select the image. The news that shows on the front page has the forumid number with it, so just save an image with that number in it an it is posted automatically. You can be more specific an use "cmps$news[forumid].jpg", "frontpage$news[forumid].jpg", "indexthumb$news[forumid].jpg" aslong as it's how you name your images. It's just a matter of makeing all those images for 40+ forums that's hardest.

[Dean C]

Your simplicity is made up for with lots of content. Nice job. One observation is this in your footer:


Page generated in 0.79021001 seconds (81.76% PHP - 18.24% MySQL) with 32 queries


That's an awful lot of queries for a homepage. You may want to consider looking to make it a bit more optimized :)

[Johnny]

Well i't pretty somple really, the poster doesn't select the image. The news that shows on the front page has the forumid number with it, so just save an image with that number in it an it is posted automatically. You can be more specific an use "cmps$news[forumid].jpg", "frontpage$news[forumid].jpg", "indexthumb$news[forumid].jpg" aslong as it's how you name your images. It's just a matter of makeing all those images for 40+ forums that's hardest.

what i thought u were doing was creating a new image on each new news post, but now i see how your doing it.

[Action-N]

Your simplicity is made up for with lots of content. Nice job. One observation is this in your footer:



That's an awful lot of queries for a homepage. You may want to consider looking to make it a bit more optimized :)

Yeah well the wierd part is it's 32 on entering,but hit refresh an it drops to 21. I thought that was alright compared to what it was with all the other crap turned on like the welcome block. Took out a few queries from the poll. I'd like to see what a defualt CMPS has for queries. Know another CMPS site that has that page generated hack?

Anyway thanks for the good feedback from all, that was my goal, to give me more content on the front page without the waste of space from a defualt install. Who else can say they have the announce, article, garage, three archived news, two news, and ten latest threads on thier front page without the user haveing to scroll down a few pages:)

[Serenity]

great site!

my husband is going to love that place. he has a hopped up camaro

[SVTBlackLight01]

I really liked your design idea and the idea of "condensing" the news section to take up less space. Here is my version: http://www.modernengineuity.com. I had to do it a little differently as I have an image for each post (which I make indidividually). I allow members to post in this section also so I had to store the thumbnails in the database so posts without them would be recognized and displayed correctly.

Thanks for the inspiration. :)