The Best Article's Hack ??

[Allan]

Originally Posted by axi

definately GEEK!!!

http://www.beastclub.com.au/forums/f...splay.php?f=39


doing me sponsor good.

lol :nervous:

[YLP1]

Originally Posted by axi

definately GEEK!!!

http://www.beastclub.com.au/forums/f...splay.php?f=39


doing me sponsor good.

Hi Axi, I am fairly new to VB and PHP...I was looking at your site because I am tying to decide whether to go with Geek's or Cing's article modules. Of course I got sidetracked... I noticed on your portal page (the news item of Beastclub Radio) has a graphic appearing at the botton...How did you get rid of the Attachement line box around this?

Do you find that your members newbie ones for instance have trouble making, finding, or editing the articles?

Thanks in advance and sorry I went off topic.

[Snow]

My fav is The Geek's article hack.

I do have vbjournal installed on my forum, but I use it as a blog system not as an article system.

I used to have v3articles but my members were not very comfortable with it... they complained of not very spider-friendly urls, of a confusing UI, bugs etc.... in the end they would post their articles in the forum as threads instead of using v3articles. Personally, I didn't think v3articles was too bad, but hey.. it just didn't suit my forum.

I tried Cing's on my test forum, and found it was too fussy for my liking. Yes it was feature rich, but I didn't need all those features and from experience with vBarticles I didn't think a standalone was best.

Geek's article hack was super popular with my forum members.... they loved it and I loved it... it's simple, it does the job and having the articles as threads within the forum makes life so much easier. It also benefits from the mod_rewrite I have for my forum in that articles too get a spider-friendly and user-friendly url. And that installer is just the coolest.

[Allan]

I will like other opinions please, this survey is important for me.

I held has to thank all those which took part in it

[Viks]

cinq's vbArticles Of "Cinq".

Why?

Becoz besides being solid in design (i am not a programmer - but have not had any major installation problems).. it looks visually appealing..
and another important feature is that it stands out seperately from vB using only its database.

To me visual appeal matters more than features and ease of use (for admins).

the only drawback i find - which might be big one.. to some - it might not be SEO friendly. (cinq are u reading this man!!...)

my 2 cents.

[Allan]

what is missing in the hack of Cinq is the possibility of seeing in the postbit which and how much article user A creates.

[axi]

Originally Posted by YLP1

Hi Axi, I am fairly new to VB and PHP...I was looking at your site because I am tying to decide whether to go with Geek's or Cing's article modules. Of course I got sidetracked... I noticed on your portal page (the news item of Beastclub Radio) has a graphic appearing at the botton...How did you get rid of the Attachement line box around this?

Do you find that your members newbie ones for instance have trouble making, finding, or editing the articles?

Thanks in advance and sorry I went off topic.

hi dude, what do you mean how did i get rid of the attachment line box? you mean like submitted by, date and the links to the thread?

also as for the articles my memberss do not have trouble finding the articles, as for editing and placing articles i have that unallowed as the article manager is used for my sponsor (PHILIPS) to promote there products and allow members to respond to the articles regarding the products.

geeks article system is very easy to install and use. looks of its style is above average and its stability is pretty good.

[YLP1]

Hi Axi...I am a dudette! LOL LOL

I figured out the attachment border and was able to remove it. I am still trying to figure out how some boards have graphics in the top left or right of the text in the news item ... all my graphics end up at the bottom.

Thanks for the input on the user friendly part of the articles....I run a city community site and well many of our 40k community are computer challenged LOL so I try and make things as easy as possible for them.

[axi]

ok, sorry Dudette
its hard to tell who'se a what on text ey
glad you got it