Marc Posted April 6, 2010 Report Share Posted April 6, 2010 Thought it was about time I gave you a bit of an update on what is going on with the technical side of the forum. Not been updating a lot lately and you'll have noticed that development on the skin design pretty much stopped. This has been done for good reason as the forum software will soon be recieving an update although will not change the feel of the forum, will add a fair few new features. So heres the plan: Forum Upgrade Abilty to reply to status's User Customisable profile pages More advanced search functionality Notifications for more than just PM's. Can be notified on status replies, profile comments, quoted posts and more. Better topic preview functionality Improved facebook integration New twitter integration Link sharing Ability to view all status updates The gallery will also be recieving an update Gallery Upgrade Album Covers Ability to put albums inside albums Image rotation ability for those 'wonky' photos Better image slideshow Friend only albums Reputation in image comments More friendly links Interface improvements Blog Upgrade THe blogs will be getting abetter feel to their user interface to see if we can get these things off the ground more A "blog this" link will be added to every post so you can instantly blog on a given topic, image etc You will be able to rate every blog entry (you can currently only rate the whole blog or nothing Group blogging - You will notice that we will have blogs for the staff group which any member of staff can blog in. This may then be extended to include other groups of members to blog about specific subjects in which they are interested in. RSS Importing - If you run a blog from elsewhere about huskies and you would like to use it on the site, there will be no need to duplicate it. You can simply copy the RSS Feed link (more blogs have them somewhere) into your blog on here then when you blog on your main blog, it will also be fed into your husky owners blog. Content Pages We are very much looking at getting some informational pages onto the site with regards to husky information in general. These will be great links for you to point newer members to in posts for information, places for you to gain information on yourself and maybe even become one of the publishers of the information that husky owners will provide. All in our usual "from an owner to an owner" kind of way, which IMO is a first for pretty much anywhere in the husky world. Chatroom The chatroom will be completely changing for a new product that is part of the forum software and so will be completely integrated with the forums software in every way. You will be able to view peoples miniprofiles from the chatroom, pm them from there, go directly to a users posts etc as you can from any other area of the board. On top of this the chatlink at the top of the forum will also contain a number showing how many users are currently chatting, which should encourage more members to click and chat. Forum looks and design You will notice that after the above have been completed (quicker than you think) the design will start to become a lot more clean, areas of the forum tidied, glass style buttons added and more to make this place look a lot nicer for all of our users on the forum. This of course will be mirrored throughout all content pages and the above to give the site a totally unified feel. So basically, I got nothing to do LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted April 6, 2010 Report Share Posted April 6, 2010 well................that'll keep you quiet for a while Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid_Wolf Posted April 6, 2010 Report Share Posted April 6, 2010 Bloody hell Marc... Sounds good NOW GET TO WORK!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BingBlaze n Skyla Posted April 6, 2010 Report Share Posted April 6, 2010 nice 1 cnt w8 2 c it all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunc Posted April 6, 2010 Report Share Posted April 6, 2010 so what time will you have this lot done for was gonna have a early night ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted April 7, 2010 Report Share Posted April 7, 2010 Looking forward to the new features and the snazzy new look. . . . Hope it looks better and works faster on my smartphone too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Miss Bump Posted April 7, 2010 Report Share Posted April 7, 2010 sounds excellent!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamz Posted April 7, 2010 Report Share Posted April 7, 2010 sounds great..cant wait to see it all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted April 7, 2010 Report Share Posted April 7, 2010 oooo cant wait to see all this, sounds awesome!!!!! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted April 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2010 Looking forward to the new features and the snazzy new look. . . . Hope it looks better and works faster on my smartphone too Actually this is another thing I missed off the above list. I will be adding mobile detection with a new cutdown mobile version of husky owners which will allow it to be opened much faster and use less data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted April 7, 2010 Report Share Posted April 7, 2010 Actually this is another thing I missed off the above list. I will be adding mobile detection with a new cutdown mobile version of husky owners which will allow it to be opened much faster and use less data. Whooooo hooooo. . .dances for joy people at work think i'm a nutter. . Lol:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted April 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2010 Gallery has now been updated ... still needs some style work, but the main system is there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valkyries Posted April 7, 2010 Report Share Posted April 7, 2010 nice one Marc now stop chattin an get workin xx lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hock Posted April 7, 2010 Report Share Posted April 7, 2010 Not good enough, Marc you need to implement the latest 3D technology so that we can see each others huskies in life size 3D dimensions by using the 3D glasses we steal from the movie theaters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted April 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2010 Now your just not seein far enough into the future here Tanner.... The glasses have OBVIOUSLY gotta be downloadable via a link that delivers to your house in under 20 seconds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted April 7, 2010 Report Share Posted April 7, 2010 no marc even better than that, we need to invent our own technology, 3D contact lenses!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val (Zebedee) Posted April 7, 2010 Report Share Posted April 7, 2010 wow! you have been a busy little bee! I'm tired just reading all that!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted April 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 OK have decided that since I will need to sort out the skinning once the forum is updated I thought I would get the general idea of what I was doing before hand and start updating things/getting my head around it now. So for a start tonight I have fully revamped the sidebar so you will notice that it is now in the same colours as the rest of the forum. I have also moved it up slightly so that it is aligned with the top category. I have also added all the smileys given to us by Brian (Demiurge) and have increased the width of the emoticon pullout list on the right of quickreply so that they can be seen a lot more easily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valkyries Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 kool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BingBlaze n Skyla Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 nice 1 :biggthumpup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunc Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 Cool loving these Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunc Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 Is it just me or does this look like Sarah ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valkyries Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 play nice Dunc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 Is it just me or does this look like Sarah ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val (Zebedee) Posted April 25, 2010 Report Share Posted April 25, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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