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Site suggestions

Here be a thread to put in site suggestions and things. Doesn't mean they'll happen but the more work for Em the better as far as I can tell. Can be visual or functional things about the forum or the main site.

Emyr
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1. User pic too close to username in forum layout.
2. Some subtle styling needed on forum posts to indicate structure.

snottyotter
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Still serif fonts in headers, I reckon get rid of them.
I'd like a bit of colour separation between posts, it's a little too plain white.

Getting some of the intergration with facebook, twitter etc. would be cool but not immediately needed.

A rewrite of the about page would be good, although I've not got any better suggestions at the moment.

A sign up page that allows people to sign up and wait for approval, rather than be signed up by Em is probably pretty high on the list so we can get this place populated.

A brew would be nice, but I'll sort that out.

snottyotter
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Your pic is a broken link

snottyotter
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Could we get all the HTML tags etc turned into easy to use buttons like over on lfgss, make it easy to quote and bold things etc without having to know the least bit of codey stuff.

Emyr
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A sign up page that allows people to sign up and wait for approval exists, but isn't activated in maintenance mode.

Voidcore
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my first test post! woo,

looking good Em! il write you up a email

Emyr
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Coolbeans, this host seems slow as treacle though, how many months left on the contract?

snottyotter
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I would like a big gay picture thread. Filled with big gay polo players i.e. Me.

snottyotter
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1st hosing, nice work Drew.

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+1 on the slow.
Also the sizing needs sorting, graphics wise it needs making pretty anyway but on Drews netbook it came out full screen by default and looked awful, I think it was full screen but giant on Chans mac too, so default sizes and whatnot need doing. I don't think the bluey fade off the page works either.
Forum wise I think it needs to rip off lfgss as closely as possible in usability terms so that people move over easily from one to the otherwith too many changes. So if you can make it look and function as similar as possible to that then people won't need to deal with too much change.

snottyotter
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Also looking at faster hosting and maybe registering www.mhbp.co.uk is being looked at.

snottyotter
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Yay! New url and quicker host is good.

I want a new favicon and the teams section of your profile should have a current and ex teams section.

snottyotter
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Make things pretty!

Voidcore
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woo my avatar works :D

Voidcore
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can we make the forum page fill the whole width? dont think it will need widgets on this page

Emyr
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The base theme supports pages with no sidebars but I've not tried no-sidebars since I started on this theme,

Drew
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Quotes, wider forum and separation between posts would be nice.

Also buttons to put in code things in like on lfgss because I will just forget with out Pictures.

Drew
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Also the RSS thing is oddly placed on the page and missing from my address bar where it usually is (not that I would actually use it.)

snottyotter
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Can we get a lot of these things done this week before party time? Come on monkey, code, code!

snottyotter
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The little navigation bits to say what thread you're in are tiny and poorly spaced near the maintenance mode announcement, also, stupid backwards American dates.

snottyotter
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Can you write the street name and post code on the powerhouse tab so people can gps it and things and change the name of the tab to location.

snottyotter
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Also, see polo this week suggestion.

Emyr
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I'll be working through these tomorrow night instead of poloing and plan to open the site up before the start of the alleycat.

Wish me luck.

Voidcore
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design needs sorting too mate, use the screenshots as reference, the header should be cropped about 20 px off the top and the nav should sit at the bottom in the image, the whole sight should but up to the top of the browser, link colours etc all need sorting you dont need to make it perfect but please dont let it go live without being as close to those designs as you can for now

Voidcore
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that header is old too, the newest design has a transparent header logo, basically as close to this as you can:

[IMG]http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y58/vOidcOre/Screenshot2012-02-23at1409...

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snottyotter
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Getting there, I still think some of the text sizing is a little off though, the list of threads needs to be a little bigger and the text in the thread needs to be a little smaller.
The registration page is currently throwing up this;
To use reCAPTCHA you must get an API key from https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin/create

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Cheers for changing the this week thing but not quite what I was after, maybe make it like the about page, so it can be edited by mods and on a Monday it's changed to something like:

This week (09/04/12) We are playing polo at the powerhouse on Tuesday at 1830, Thursday at 1830 and Sunday at 1330 with a beginners practice session at 1230.
If you want the most up to date info check this forum.

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Also I think things need a bit of polish and prettyness making still.

Whats the limit on posts before we get to a new page, this page is getting quite long 10-15 would be good. I want it to be full page, not centred and sizes/fonts still need work.

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Well done Em, almost there!

polo-this-week has a link to http://mhbp.co.uk/forums/regular-polo-sessions which givea an error if the user isn't logged in. Maybe it's easiest to make that forum public?

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