Zoints Local is ushering in a new era of interconnectivity between communities. Therefore, a few minor details such as the navbar must remain standard. You can change the images to better fit your styles, but you cannot remove them. Think of it this way: if you were traveling on a freeway from state to state and suddenly one state decided not to use any road signs, it would be a nightmare. Zoints Local is the virtual freeway between communities. As traffic is sent to your community, people need to know where to go :)

It doesn't pull your vBulletin style information. You have to create a new style using the Zoints style editor. Open up your vBulletin style page and plug the info into your Zoints style editor. You'll see it's quite easy to get your style looking like you want :)

Thanks for all the replies. Currently Zoints Local is in 1.0 RC2. Any new features (other than the ones mentioned in the details at the top) planned for the 1.0 Gold? Any roadmap for the gold release? I think I will continue testing it on the zointsdemo.com website, and install it on my live server when Gold is reached. :)

RC3 should be going live tonight. We decided to go with an RC3 because we rewrote the posting system, added the ability to login as a user for moderation purposes, and decided to slip in the ability to globally edit the footer since so many people requested it. Beyond that, we have a feature lock and we hope there is no RC4. :)

Any idea on these questions DC? :)

Couls you also explain a bit about how traffic is sent to our forums through the zoints community please? I was under the impression that the local version just kept everything on our site? Of course getting new traffic is a great thing, just wondering what the extent of it is:)

great... once again... excelent job. :)

on another note... just wanted to comment. I was testing the centralized Zoints and moved the "Sponsored Links" from the center column to the left column and the ad changed from 468x60 size to an 160x600 size ad. I loved that! I would like to implement that same thing on my local Zoints, That the user has the ability to move the ad, but not remove it, and that the ad changes its sizes if it is located in the center column or at the sides. Could that be done, for example, if I have both codes for the two ad sizes? :)

No, the buttons can be changed to different colors/designs but the code itself needs to stay and the buttons needs to show.

I have no idea, sorry. You'd need to ask the guys over there about that :)

1. You will be listed in the Zoints directory at http://zoints.com/communities - we advertise that and will be ramping up the advertising of it in the future.

2. You enter "tags" when you create a directory listing. Let's say your community is about music. You would enter "music" as one of your tags and then your community would be listed at http://zoints.com/tag/music - interest driven traffic is the best there is.

3. The search is global across all communities. Search for someone from California between the age of 23 and 35 and if someone on your community chose to share that information (they don't have to) then they come up as the result and the link, when clicked, takes the searcher to your forum.

That, and more. We want to drive as much traffic to communities that use Zoints as possible. Its a synergistic relationship. If you guys do well, we do well and vice versa.

We will indeed be releasing that code for use. We would have bundled it with Zoints Local but then Google would have gotten mad at us (its against their TOS). I don't know if you noticed, but if you change your style on Zoints.com the Google ad color automatically changes with it too. :cool: