The Condition of the Forum

[NanTheDark]

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Killswitch (May 18th, 2014, 7:37 pm)

[Raz]

This post by Raz was thumbed up by:

Killswitch (May 18th, 2014, 7:37 pm)

[NanTheDark]

This post by NanTheDark was thumbed up by:

Killswitch (May 18th, 2014, 7:37 pm)

[Oranjui]

Now that most of the big issues are settled:

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On all our lovely, "What should we do threads", start them as we have, but a week or two in, take all the suggestions from the thread and then make a poll out of it so that we can all get together and say, "I vote for that to actually be done". Make sure to put a "We need more suggestions" as the last option, and bam. We have a process for that.

Everything's been covered for the most part, so I'll just chip in to the forum map plan. Instead of one big graphical map, could you somehow split it into little parts that you can click on to take you to different areas of the forum? Unless there's a way to make big images interactive in different parts without needing to use flash or anything. I think that either way interactivity would be far more intuitive than turning the map into one of those brochures like you find at amusement parks where everything is labelled with a number and there's a key with like 70 different things at the bottom. Of course, maybe somebody wants to do it in flash and add little tooltips and maybe create some sort of scrolling map of a town, hint hint.

Another popular one that we've had suggested before is bumping up the Artwork category to give it a bit more publicity, and generally cleaning up the board index (including removing or merging the Other Games category due to lack of use). If we're going to do something about the condition of the forum, we need to compile all the ideas here before we can vote on what's to be done first. Take the best, most well-developed ones from here and the same from Website Suggestions from around this point and onwards and I think we'll be ready to start moving towards everyone's general ideals.
Ready? Go!

[NanTheDark]

Flash, eh?

It's been a veeeeeeeeery long while since I've used Flash, so yeah... That would have to be someone else definitely. I guess I can draw things though.

Also, I sorta imagined a simple map thing where it shows each forum and it tells you what each one's all about. I dunno.

Oh hey! *using info thing because people likes it*

i	How about we also make a Welcome Topic thing in each forum? Like, explaining things about that particular forum and whatnot. Like a Tourist Tips spot.

[Raz]

I'm pretty sure you can just use BBcode like Suyo and co. use for their signatures.

Honestly, I think our first priority of all is the chat and to get it as close to working as possible, because Usu's post is probably the most truthful post I've read.

[NanTheDark]

I don't know how to BBCode like a pro. :/ I would have to learn some BBCode...

[WickedOreo]

I don't know how to BBCode like a pro. :/ I would have to learn some BBCode...

I know how to BBCode and BBCode/CSS pretty well. I've been on forums for... 6 years, and it's so similar to HTML that I'm pretty sufficient in both HTML and CSS.

Also, I won't be able to properly respond to this thread for about another week or so, as my laptops were taken away due to some unfortunate happenings.

[-BY]

HTML and CSS are by far no difficult stuff, though. Just [opinion]horribly boring and it felt like wasted time, when I did study it.[/opinion]
So yeah. That describes pretty well, why I haven't helped out with these things yet.
Also. I suppose your laptop got lapnapped. (Sorry. Couldn't resist. >_>)

[Doram]

I don't know how to BBCode like a pro. :/ I would have to learn some BBCode...

A) Do you know how to use MS Word? Then you already have the basic idea behind HTML and BBCode. Select from the beginning of the area you want bolded to the end, and click on bold. In the code, there is a marker (opening tag - <tag> or [tag]) put at the beginning of the selection starting the bolded area, and a marker (closing tag - </tag> or [/tag]) put at the end of the selection ending the bolded area. Bam. Markup. The same goes for italics, underline, and everything else. HTML uses the Less Than & Greater Than <>, and BBCode uses the Square Brackets [].

Code: Select all

I want [b]THIS[/b] bold, and [u]THIS[/u] underlined.

I want THIS bold, and THIS underlined.

The only other thing you need to know is nesting. [1][2][3][/3][/2][/1] It's like parentheses in Algebra. Start in the middle and work your way out. Mess that up, and things start to break.

B) BBCode Thread