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[mashby]

Ok, I've done just about all I plan on doing to my new forum prior to it's launch. The forum is complete, but it has not been added to the navigation on the main page. In other words, this is a sneak peek.

Secondly, please do not join since I will be replacing the current user database with my offline database shortly (hopefully tonight). So, if you do sign up, I will be deleting your account.

You will also notice that there are not a lot of posts. Since the forum hasn't gone live yet, I think you can understand why it's fairly empty.

Lastly, at the bottom of this post is a link to all of the template mods and hacks installed on my board. I hope that this sort of reference will be helpful to some of you and give you an example of how my board got the way it did.

Enjoy and I welcome any feedback!


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Links
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Forum Home - http://www.npug.org/forum/
PostBit - http://npug.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12206
Member Profile - http://npug.org/forum/member.php?s=&...tinfo&userid=1


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Template Modifications
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1. Front Page Links [link]

2. Design and Tweak your Frontpage Suite [link]
- "Breaking Up The Categories From Each Other"
- "Adding onMouseOver-highlighting effect to the boards"
- "Adding your own (blinking and clickable) private messages images"

3. Admin/Mod Login [link]

4. New Announcement Bit [link]

5. Baseline Signature [link]

6. Centered Categories [link]

7. New Get Info Layout (edited heavily) [link]

8. Page Nav. Blocks [link]

9. Quote Boxes [link]

10. Modify Search For User Posts [link]

11. User Info Box [link]

12. Mod Column Removal [link]

13. Make Your Member Profile A PopUp[link]


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Hacks
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1. vbStats [link]

2. vbMicroStats[link]

2. vbMicroStats [link]

3. Who was online today [link]

4. Msn in post [link]

5. Send default PM to all new users [link]

6. Download a PalmDoc Version [link]

7. Subscribe to This Thread" link to "Unsubscribe" if already subscribed [link]

8. More Functions in Edit Post if you are an Admin [link]

9. Yet another Stats/Level Hack [link]

10. PluhNews 1.5 ( not yet implemented) [link]


OMG that took forever.

WOW..Very nice forum...very nice job..

I Like it...Great postbit...and all the other templates looks great too..

Greetz,

Trust

[mashby]

Trust,

Thanks a lot! I appreciate the vote of confidence.

[djr]

mash,

Great! I like it a lot. Very clean and must have taken alot of your time! Will this also be done on Interpug?

One question, seems missing from your extensive list. Which modification or hack is the little icons for 'Read new posts in this forum' / 'Create a new tread in this forum' and 'Subscribe for this forum' on forumdisplay?

- djr / Jean-Paul Horn

[mashby]

djr,

Great! I like it a lot. Very clean and must have taken alot of your time! Will this also be done on Interpug?

Glad you like it. It did take a lot of time, but it was just a little bit here and a little bit there for the past two weeks. I just have to import the users and I'm done. Know anything about MySQL imports?

Some of the mods will definitely make there way over to InterPUG. Including the AvantGo stuff you sent me. I've been holding off updating InterPUG because of 2.2.6. As you know, with the new version, I'll have to re-hack the board. Thanks to this wonderful site, I think I'll do more template mods than hacks.

One question, seems missing from your extensive list. Which modification or hack is the little icons for 'Read new posts in this forum' / 'Create a new tread in this forum' and 'Subscribe for this forum' on forumdisplay?

Actually, the template modification you're referring to is the first one in the template mods! It's called Front Page Links (vSP) and was posted by SaintDog, but authored by Wayne Luke of http://www.sitepoint.com fame. [link]

[djr]

Glad you like it. It did take a lot of time, but it was just a little bit here and a little bit there for the past two weeks. I just have to import the users and I'm done. Know anything about MySQL imports?

I do. I would almost say ofcourse you need phpMyAdmin. Then export your current user table and import it again in your new forum database. Remember: If you've done any hacking which involved adding extra fields to the user table or related tables to the user tables, you MUST compare the export file very closely with the new user table of your development board, to avoid inconsistensies with the import action! (Data on wrong fields etc)

Some of the mods will definitely make there way over to InterPUG. Including the AvantGo stuff you sent me. I've been holding off updating InterPUG because of 2.2.6. As you know, with the new version, I'll have to re-hack the board. Thanks to this wonderful site, I think I'll do more template mods than hacks.

Lovely! I finished upgrading from 2.2.4 to 2.2.6 this weekend on our live board and was busy for almost two hours due to all the hacks installed. You might want to try Araxis Merge for comparing the old forum php files with the new 2.2.6 ones. Then take a good look at vbulletin.com which templates have changed (no so many, depending on your current version) and re-hack those too (with view original template).

Actually, the template modification you're referring to is the first one in the template mods! It's called Front Page Links (vSP) and was posted by SaintDog, but authored by Wayne Luke of http://www.sitepoint.com fame. [link]

Grrr... I missed that one :-( I thought it was Xiphoid's template mod as listed on number 2 (which I just noticed). Thanks anyway for the quick response!

nice forums.

i've never seen a site with those colors. they are sweet. good job.

[mashby]

Thank you very much.

[mashby]

Any other feedback? I'm open to constructive criticism as well.