NEW FORUM TEST

Pooka

Very plush! Been looking around, getting my profile sorted out. Evidently the colours will have to be sorted out - you can't see the text in people's signatures - but you said you'd be sorting that stuff out anyway - so yes! Good all around!

Quote from: frakilk on 28 April 2009 19:11

Something else that could also appear near the header is a graphic promoting Sunday night chats in the Knightmare chat room. Nothing extravagant, just a small graphic.

This doesn't seem appropriate to the forum.

You're right, except we're trying to plug #knightmare as much as possible (or at least, I am) so perhaps if there's a news fader that could be a topic. Or at least a very small link with all the others at the top of the page. A separate graphic is a bit much, but why not link to it, in some ways it can't hurt, right?

Mystara

Very plush! Been looking around, getting my profile sorted out.

hrm, I may not have been very clear before. Ahem.

Any changes made to the new forum will be lost.

Sorry, but there's no way to import new posts from the old forum. That's why I tried to lock it all down. On the plus side, the profile editing capabilities work, I take it?

Evidently the colours will have to be sorted out - you can't see the text in people's signatures - but you said you'd be sorting that stuff out anyway - so yes! Good all around!

Yes, annoyingly it's not quite as simply as setting a colour scheme. I need to go and modify the entire CSS.

I'll see if I can improve the signature colour somewhat. Although the entire thing might be easier if I simply look for a better phpBB theme.

You're right, except we're trying to plug #knightmare as much as possible (or at least, I am) so perhaps if there's a news fader that could be a topic. Or at least a very small link with all the others at the top of the page. A separate graphic is a bit much, but why not link to it, in some ways it can't hurt, right?

Let's wait and see on this. I'm certainly not averse to publicising the chatroom at much as possible. That said, the forum is only one aspect of the site and the ultimate ambition is to combine them. Once we migrate to the new forum, we can see if there's some way to link to chat. Adding HTML directly is a big job because of the number of template files that would need modifying (over 50).

frakilk

Adding HTML directly is a big job because of the number of template files that would need modifying (over 50).

I am familiar with PHPBB. All you would have to modify is page_header.tpl

Mystara

There is no page_header.tpl

At least, none that I can see. Although I suppose it's possible that there is some other included file for the header of each page.

Amorya

There is no page_header.tpl

At least, none that I can see. Although I suppose it's possible that there is some other included file for the header of each page.

It's actually called overall_header.html. (There's also overall_footer).

Mystara

Well, that would certainly make things easier.

frakilk

Apologies, that's what I meant (should have looked at the file name before guessing it's name )

Mystara

I have had a very quick go of using torches to mark whether a forum is read or unread. The lit/animated torch indicates that a forum is unread.

If anyone can do better, please feel free

frakilk

That looks great mystara, more Knightmare-looking already

Mystara

I've just finished making a whole batch of changes to the theme. In particular:

Got rid of the disgusting black and grey alternations. I hope.
Some hovering glitches were removed
Improved readability of signature text (thanks Pooka!) and also one or two other bits of text that I had missed
User control panel should be fixed (thanks Frak)
More torches have been added. Given the number of permutations of icon, I'm afraid I might need to use something other than lit/unlit such as greyscale/colour. I might use unlit torches for locked topics. I haven't fully thought it all through yet.
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I notice that some special characters (£ for example) have not translated properly. Bugger. That might require a fair bit of hassle to get it moved properly

If your user profile is out of date - specifically the email address - make sure you update it! If the passwords are not being transferred correctly all the time, you run the risk of being locked out of your account when we transfer

Mystara

Howdy,

I have made hopefully the last test import of data to phpbb. The encoding problem seems to have resolved itself and the knightmare forum theme should now be complete (I hope). Although there is obviously room for improvement at a later date.

I propose to make the final move to phpbb on Friday 15th May. The hope is that the transition will go smoothly, there should be no loss of data. When the update begins, this forum will be locked, switched off and archived. The new forum will then be brought online and data from the old forum will be imported. The process will take several hours.

If you haven't done so already, please update your user profile. Should things go wrong and your password requires resetting, it will be very hard to do anything if your email address is out of date.