Rusty
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Dec 22, 2010, 2:31 PM
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Just a thought, based off of my experiences elsewhere on the interwebs on various forums and messageboards.
Has Interactivetools.com ever considered modifying the structure of the Forum to a Hierarchical type?
Instead of clicking CMS Builder: Plugins & Add-ons and getting a huge directory of EVERYTHING that falls under that category, perhaps create sub-categories.
Something like thisl
Forum
Parent Category - CMS Builder
Sub-Category => Post Your Best CMSB Sites
within Sub-Category => ===>Stickied post with links to the sites
within Sub-Category => ===>Rest of the threads would fill in here.
Sub-Category =>Post Your CMSB Config's
Sub-Category =>Post Your CMSB Tips, Tricks, & Tweaks
Parent Category - Plugins & Add-Ons
Sub-Category =>Geocoder
within Sub-Category => ===>Stickied post with staff posts, w/ changelog, install & config walkthrough etc, basic/common FAQ/help problems.
within Sub-Category => ===>Stickied post with user contributed tweaks tips & Tricks
within Sub-Category => ===>Rest of the threads would fill in here.
=>Spambot Email Protector
=>Create PDF
=>CSV Export
=>Website Membership
=>Twitter Post
=>Auto Backup
=>Download Mail
=>Website Favorites
=>Website Saved Searches
=>Low Disk Space Alert
Parent Category - -Off Topic
Parent Category - -Classic
I realize the text based layout leaves something to be desired. However I frequent a lot of forums (mainly auto/tech related) and we've got sub-category organization beneath the parent categories.
Just a thought.
Also...
Will we ever get it (the Forum) to support the same keyboard shortcut/hotkeys that PHPBB & EzBB support? Ya know... CTRL+I for Italics, CTRL+B for Bold, etc etc.
And lastly is there anything you can do about where the ezCode/text formmating code placement occurs? On PHPBB & EzBB it is possible to highlight a portion of text/code and then hit the Bold button and it will automatically place the opening and closing B tags/wrappers around the selected text. The other slightly annoying thing is that ezCode tag placement does not detect cursor position. If I place the cursor ahead of a word I typed out a few paragraphs up, and hit the B button, it (forum) inserts an opening B tag at the very end of the Test/Post input box...
The text stylization that I did above would have taken me about 60 seconds tops instead of a few minutes of copying and pasting tags by hand.
Oh, and what about making it so we can link like this
[url="http://google.com"]Google and have it link to google, but display Google. I like to cross reference links (in my posts) a lot, and have yet to figure out how to (on this forum).
Rusty
(This post was edited by Rusty on Dec 22, 2010, 2:42 PM)
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