Have you seen Dani's mod-rewrite tutorial that will do just that?

Is it still an option to have the add comment and rating on the first page with the article?

h

h- I hard coded it to try and get a green light from everyone on the layout however I plan on it being optional. :)

NG, looks great!
The only thing now that needs some improvement now is the page links. Are you using the "regular" vB pagination thingy?

You nailed it :D

At first I was hesitant towards having no comments on page 1, but looking at your preview it gives so much more focus to the article (and the fact that there's more than 1 page).

To notify people that the article contains more pages, it might be an improvement when the 'page x of y' info IN the article table (see attachment).

TCB's thumb shows very well another aspect that might create some confusion (although it's just a visual matter), page links vs article links.
There must be a good visual distinction between both.

One neat thing would be a user definable "next page link". This would allow article writers to entice the reader to follow that link by asking a question or other literary teaser.
Alternatively, one could also "name" each page with a title and instead of:
Page 2 of 3 < 1 2 3 >
one could have:
And then she took her panties off >

Just thinking out loud =)

don't know if this has been addressed but you may want to make it work in Safari :/ takes up about 1/5th of the width of the window. and replies on it take up even less

Eva - I was working on the live version around the time you posted this... can you just double check that it is working OK? Firefix is a-ok so is IE... cant seem to find a safari emulator :(

rlamego- I was using a custom one in the first inception, however I now use the standard vb pagination thingee ;)
I WAS also doing the named links... however page breaking the way I have decided to go for has negated the real ability for me to do that in the way I wanted to. The only other way I can think of off the top of my head is to make the bbcode something like [BREAK=Go to the next freaking page] and then extract it out of there.
The problem there is 2 fold: 1- the exploding of the page breaks becomes more difficult and time consuming and 2- it will only give you 1 side without a lot more logic to extract the info needed.
Any ideas on how to do it SIMPLY is more than welcomed.

TCB - check now... is that what you were thinking of?

hmmm. on thinking about it... maybe bb code for pagebreaks should look like this:

[BREAK][BACK="Reverse order"][FORWARD="Next Page"][/BREAK]

Then I can explode the post with a regular expression (which I suck at so if someone want to throw out the expression... I would kiss them).
Actually, I would need to expolde it into an array of back and next, then an array of pages.

If anyone wants to put forth some suggestions... I am more than open.

I am now running a bit low on time as I am at a conference all weekend and I need to get ready!

Well I'd probably try out both, but I definately would go for it being optional, just in case. :)


h