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Greetings follow XDCers
the new site
right… we are now hosted at out new site.. and what a site it is.we now have shed loads of space and a whole host of gimmicks with which to play with.
this will have some immediate benefits eg raising the size of the uploads when using attachments and the number of attachments we can have across the site.
our front page
I would also like to take this opportunity to have another look at our front end. So get your thinking hats on.1st question: do we need a front page or should the forum be the XDC website?
2nd question: if we keep it how should be manage it…
We have options:
1) we can keep the current front end stop worrying about it.
2) we could look at one of the portal systems that go with phpbb3 similar to our old phpnuke site?
3) we can swap to another content system….My initial inclination is to use WordPress (the blogging tool) as our main front end. This is for a number reasons.
insane number of themes available and i am sure even us lot can settle on one
very very very easy for even the most techno illiterate bod to look after and post stuff..
some of you probably already use wordpress
we can use the buckets of plugins to get just about any functionality out of the site.. including photogalleries and all the other goodies we dont have at present.
here are 2 examples of sites i manage using wordpress : http://tz.nlincs.yhgfl.net/ http://www.borderreivers.net
however, as much as i am in love with wordpress i am not precious about it at all and am open to suggestionsmore importantly it would be nice if people could update it once in a while.
Opportunities
As I mentioned in another thread this hosting package comes with a shed load of value added products and space is not an issue.
So.. if anyone is interested we could host individual members sites eg turks.xdcuk.com / wolf.xdcuk.com / phart.xdcuk.com
I am not sure if anyone is interested but it is possible.
the website comes with 1 click installation to a wide range of packages.. here is the list!
Blogs
b2evolution
Nucleus
WordPress
Content Management
Drupal
Geeklog
Joomla 1.5
Joomla
Mambo Open Source
PHP-Nuke
phpWCMS
phpWebSite
Post-Nuke
Siteframe
TYPO3
Xoops
Customer Relationship
Crafty Syntax Live Help
Help Center Live
osTicket
PerlDesk
PHP Support Tickets
Support Logic Helpdesk
Support Services Manager
Discussion Boards
phpBB
SMF
E-Commerce
CubeCart
OS Commerce
Zen Cart
F.A.Q.
FAQMasterFlex
Hosting Billing
AccountLab Plus
phpCOIN
Image Galleries
4Images Gallery
Coppermine Photo Gallery
Gallery
Mailing Lists
PHPlist
Polls and Surveys
Advanced Poll
LimeSurvey
phpESP
Project Management
dotProject
PHProjekt
Site Builders
Pro Edition
Templates Express
Wiki
TikiWiki
PhpWiki
Other Scripts
Dew-NewPHPLinks
Moodle
Noahs Classifieds
Open-Realty
phpAdsNew
PHPauction
phpFormGenerator
WebCalendaryour thoughts???
I think this looks cool – http://www.borderreivers.net (the other is a bit too green!)
I also think the RIP front page is pretty cool – http://www.rustyinplaces.org/rip/ and has some cool features (althought hey are used in a bit of an uber leet way)
Reet o, theres some issues with PM’s I’ve just noticed, when you click on a PM within a post, it automatically quotes the thread (not to sure if its meant to do that) anyhoos.. just typed out huge message to someone, clicked submit and IE failed to do whatever it failed to do, click back.. so you do and all is gone, except the quotes! GRR!!!
anyhoos will try a different link to a PM and see how that goes
ta muchly
Andy I’m quite keen to have a look at these new tools but I don’t really know enough about them. Could you maybe set up a test domain for me (plus whoever else fancies a look) to play about with the options and get a feel for what’s possible etc?
1st question: do we need a front page or should the forum be the XDC website?
We do need a frontpage for any clan type stuff we ever want to do. The too main reasons are future recruitment and any competition we’ll ever want to join requires certain features on team sites. Can’t really answer the other questions until I have closer look at WordPress, but it’s sound good so far 🙂
ok I think I have something workable
have a look at http://front.xdcuk.com
there are still a few bugs to iron out but i think it looks quite sweet
not the return of the image gallery with some good old retrol XDC moments.
Ooo I’m liking that very much.. its very sexual indeed.. *claps*
I suggest we keep it 🙂
Is that skin/colour thing available for me to use in the forums?
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