New style

[malcolm]

Hi all

I just thought i would say well done to the admin folks for the new style,
I am liking it a lot ;D

[dunkonu23]

Jerry did a great job, didn't he? I especially like the recent threads portion at the top!

Great job, Jerry!

Scot

[Jerrymac]

Thanks guys. After looking at the same home page for over a year now, I just thought I would tinker with the 'skins' a little. Glad you like it.

[9sec240]

Meh... not really digging it. The colors are quite odd. I would rather see all "active topics" at the top rather than just ones I have participated in. Would also like to see those topics only on the main page. Its annoying to have to scroll down past them on every page.

[Jerrymac]

Ivan, sorry you don't like the changes. Keep in mind that we are rather limited here as to what we can add or change with the site. As for the colors, what would you prefer? They are almost unlimited, and everything can have it's own color including the back ground.

One thing we can't change is the 'banner ad' at the top as far as only having it on the main page. We can change the size, and layout a little, but it will always be on every page unless we want to pay proboards a monthly fee to go 'ad free'.

If there is a new post in the 'threads that you participated in' the word "new" will be at the left of the link and you can just click on it to see the newest posts in that thread. Also, for those of you that might be newer to the site and didn't see it, there is a button on the right, at the bottom of the forum listing on the main page that says 'posts since last visit'.
If you click on it, all of the new posts since the last time you logged in will show up all on a single page, no matter what thread they are in. You can even reply to them from that page without going to the actual thread. The first time you use this feature, all of the posts on the board sometimes come up, but after that, only the new posts are listed.

Hope this helps, and remember, we are always open to suggestions, but again we are somewhat limited as to what we can change, and finding the code to make those changes can be kind of daunting sometimes.

To give you an idea, here is the code that had to be entered just to put that 'posts since last visit' button on the bottom of the main page.



var imageUrl = "http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/994/buttonch6.png";

// Don't edit
var pslv = {
image: imageUrl,
lastTime: 0, // Last login time
genRand: function(){
return Math.floor(Math.random()*500)+500;
},
genLink: function(){
var sstring = "?action=search2&search=&match=1&whattosearch=1&user=";
sstring += "&maxresults="+this.genRand()+"&viewtype=1&subject=1&message=1";
// Check into search string
// Check into match type
// Add the date here
var x = (new Date()).getTime()-this.lastTime;
x = Math.ceil(((x/1000)/60)/60); // Milliseconds to seconds to minutes to hours
sstring += "&hours="+x;
// Load board data
var f = document.getElementById("forumjump").options;
for(a=6;a<f.length;a++){
if(f.value.match(/board=/i)){
sstring += "&board-"+f.value.split(/board=/i)[1]+"=1";
}
}
location.href = sstring+'&days=0';
},
addInfo: function(){
var aTD = document.getElementsByTagName("td");
for(a=0;a<aTD.length;a++){
if(aTD.colSpan == 5 && aTD.getElementsByTagName("img")[0]){
var v = aTD.firstChild;
v.appendChild(document.createTextNode(" "));
var ah = v.appendChild(document.createElement("a"));
ah.href = "javascript:void(0);"
ah.onclick = function(){ pslv.genLink(); };
ah.appendChild(new Image()).src = this.image;
ah.firstChild.alt = ah.firstChild.title = "Posts Since Last Visit";
ah.firstChild.border = 0;
break;
}
}
},
init: function(){
if(pb_username == "Guest")
return false;
if(!(location.href.match(/action=home/i) || !location.href.match(/(action|board)=/i)))
return false;

this.addInfo();
this.lastTime = this.c.get("session_visit") || this.c.get("last_visit") || 1;
this.c.set("session_visit", this.lastTime);
this.c.set("last_visit", (new Date()).getTime(), true);
},
c: {
get: function(n){
if(document.cookie.match(new RegExp("pslv_"+n+"=(.+?)(;|$)", "gi"))){
return RegExp.$1;
}
return 0;
},
set: function(n, v, e){
document.cookie = "pslv_"+n+"="+v+";"+(e?"expires="+(new Date( )).toGMTString().replace(/\d{4}/, "2050"):"");
}
}
};

pslv.init();
</script>




Jerry

[9sec240]

Jerry, I use the New Topics button up top all the time. This is most convenient for me. I like it because it lists everything that is new and not just threads that I have posted in new or not. This board is fairly slow so I keep up on all the threads and "new topics" gives me just that. All the new stuff. The "most recent topics I participated in" grouping just gets in my way at that point.

All these free boards have their drawbacks. I run a small phpbb board which are notorious for getting spammers. I had to switch to manually authorizing everybody. The nice part is that I have a lot templates to choose from and there is no code to program. It is all web based.

Check it out some time. www.suburbanrcbarnstormers.com/Forum/index.php

[Jerrymac]

Ivan, I can always change the top banner back to it's original size if more people chime in saying they don't like. There are no pre-made templates here that I know of. We can change the appearance of most everything, but, it has to be done by creating, or changing the 'skins'. Adding features requires adding all the code to the proper headers and footers for them to work.

Just like the logo and pic at the top. Scott had to make that up himself, then put the link in the skin to add it there. Colors are easier, as you just have to change the color codes in the skin for each section that you want to change.

I checked out your site. It looks pretty good. I would have joined to offer my support for your site, but, I don't own or fly planes so I wouldn't fit in too well.
Sorry to hear that you get so many spammers that you have to approve each new member. I hope that doesn't happen here. I would think that might discourage honest people from joining knowing they would have to explain themselves, then wait to be accepted. I think I would just ban the spammers instead, then block a small portion of IP addresses that are close to theirs in case their router assigns a new IP every time they restart their computer.