Forum enhancement suggestions

[mikes68]

Just creating another thread as a placeholder for suggestions...

Hybrid - any chance of having the Forum header and sidebar menus (left and right) setup in some framesets / frames?

Kinda like what I have done with the MOCWA site so that the content scrolls but the stuff that you may want to see all the time freezes... -->> MOCWA

[hybrid]

To get this website using frames is not really an option.. massive task.
Most websites don't use frames any more because of this.

There are many other reasons too.

http://www.html-faq.com/htmlframes/?framesareevil

[mikes68]

To get this website using frames is not really an option.. massive task.
Most websites don't use frames any more because of this.

There are many other reasons too.

http://www.html-faq.com/htmlframes/?framesareevil

Interesting read thanks Hybrid. One point I would make though (not to try and convince you to frameset this site though) is that the arguments put forward in that article I would not expect to be significant reasons for a site like this.

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Bookmarking - possibly not so relevent here but may be shot down as that is exactly what I am trying to do now with the "today's posts" issue in the other thread

Search Engines - Would it really matter on the content for all the web crawlers to go through this site as opposed to keywords in the meta content

Target Audience (www) - we do have a specific target audience that would know where this site is although admittedly may lose some of our "newby" target audience if not discovered in thier broad internet searches...

Anyways... just a thought and thanks for the response.

[hybrid]

mike: I should also mention that I did not "design" this website. It's a Content Management System http://dragonflycms.org/ which I have templated.

I'm by no means a web designer... my artistic abilities are limited to stick figures. I'm a techie, so I can sort out backend issues, but I can't make a website look good!

If you have a look at two of my other dragonfly websites, I'm sure you'll see the similarities:
http://www.australianpipebands.com
http://www.2strokesdownunder.com

[mikes68]

mike: I should also mention that I did not "design" this website. It's a Content Management System http://dragonflycms.org/ which I have templated.

I'm by no means a web designer... my artistic abilities are limited to stick figures. I'm a techie, so I can sort out backend issues, but I can't make a website look good!

If you have a look at two of my other dragonfly websites, I'm sure you'll see the similarities:
http://www.australianpipebands.com
http://www.2strokesdownunder.com

Cool... not unlike myself - far from being a web designer

[Kosa]

thank you for adding todays posts! makes life alot easier. is there any way u could have an easier link location for it? just cause i personally use todays posts link alot and i assume others would to.

peace

p.s. the forum is coming along nicely

[hybrid]

Easier than having a link in the main menu on the left?

What would you suggest?

[ozbilt]

That is great, I always use the "today's post" button as I am so lazy. Lol

Thanks Jeff

[shermatt]

todays posts....fantastic

Thats all I ever use to mate

Matt

[hybrid]

Really?
Wow.. I can't say I have ever used that function on any forum.
I just go into the main forum and open any that show new posts.

[scott66stang]

All i ever used too. Well done

[shermatt]

is there a members cars section?

Matt

[hybrid]

There is an image gallery where each member can have their own album. Will that do the trick, or did you have something else in mind?

[mikes68]

Really?
Wow.. I can't say I have ever used that function on any forum.
I just go into the main forum and open any that show new posts.

Beeeyewwwdifull... the only thing I ever used also. Just wanted to see all current posts across all topics for the last 24 hrs or so - rarely went more than 9 hrs without getting a fix

[cage]

hybrid, is there any way we can save posts like in a favourites section for example. Some good stuff on here now and I want to save the post for later reference