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Offline Wretched Excess

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We have made some changes to the homepage
« on: November 28, 2008, 11:18:05 AM »
Normally, I click on the home button, (top right), and it would take me to the list of the forums. It's been changed.  :bawl:
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Re: Who is playing with the buttons?
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2008, 11:20:37 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on November 28, 2008, 11:18:05 AM
Normally, I click on the home button, (top right), and it would take me to the list of the forums. It's been changed.  :bawl:

the portal is active at the moment;  click on the "forum button" to go to the forums when the portal is up
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Re: Who is playing with the buttons?
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2008, 11:28:37 AM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on November 28, 2008, 11:20:37 AM
the portal is active at the moment;  click on the "forum button" to go to the forums when the portal is up

That works, but is the portal opening some sort of random thing like a wormhole ?
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Re: Who is playing with the buttons?
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2008, 11:33:11 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on November 28, 2008, 11:28:37 AM
That works, but is the portal opening some sort of random thing like a wormhole ?


I'm worried about the space/time continuum now.  Thanks WE. 
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Re: Who is playing with the buttons?
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2008, 12:05:43 PM »

the idea is to create a more appealing landing page for guests.  a place where they can get a better idea of what is in the forums from a single page.  The portal is an SMF mod that Rebel found, and I have always been curious about.  I played with it a bit last night, and some more today.

the middle column is the last 20 posts to any forum, then the latest three posts from breaking news, and finally a number of articles that we publish manually.  I just picked the first two out of the elections forum.  the stuff on the left and right columns is just fun sort of stuff about the board and the people in it.

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Re: Who is playing with the buttons?
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2008, 02:46:20 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on November 28, 2008, 11:28:37 AM
That works, but is the portal opening some sort of random thing like a wormhole ?

Our guest bounce rate off the the index page has always been fairly alarming;  well, it has been much higher than I liked.  this just makes it a little more attractive, a good bit more interesting, and very much easier to see what we are all about with our home screen.

 
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Re: Who is playing with the buttons?
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2008, 03:37:09 PM »
I like the new homepage!  Lookin' good :)
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Re: Who is playing with the buttons?
« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2008, 03:51:11 PM »
Quote from: Sweet Dee on November 28, 2008, 03:37:09 PM
I like the new homepage!  Lookin' good :)

I am sort of happy with it, too.  it changes dynamically.  the middle column is the 3 most recent posts from breaking news, followed by the 20 most recent posts to the overall forum.  and then after that there are 3 columns that we can publish to the portal "on demand".



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Re: Changes to the home page
« Reply #8 on: November 28, 2008, 05:17:55 PM »

if you guys have any suggestions to the new portal, or homepage, please don't hesitate to post them in this thread.
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Re: Changes to the home page
« Reply #9 on: November 28, 2008, 05:19:16 PM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on November 28, 2008, 05:17:55 PM
if you guys have any suggestions to the new portal, or homepage, please don't hesitate to post them in this thread.

The only thing I'm missing is a box for my local weather forecast ;)  hehe  You're doing a fab job.
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Re: Who is playing with the buttons?
« Reply #10 on: November 28, 2008, 05:19:31 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on November 28, 2008, 11:28:37 AM
That works, but is the portal opening some sort of random thing like a wormhole ?

LOL.  no.  it is active when rebel, thor, or I make it active.  I think we are going to run like this for a while. 
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Re: Who is playing with the buttons?
« Reply #11 on: November 28, 2008, 05:30:50 PM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on November 28, 2008, 05:19:31 PM
LOL.  no.  it is active when rebel, thor, or I make it active.  I think we are going to run like this for a while. 

The reason I wondered if it was random, was that yesterday it was taking me to a mostly blank page.  I'll get used to it, and it does make it more inviting for visitors.
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Re: Who is playing with the buttons?
« Reply #12 on: November 28, 2008, 05:32:12 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on November 28, 2008, 05:30:50 PM
The reason I wondered if it was random, was that yesterday it was taking me to a mostly blank page.  I'll get used to it, and it does make it more inviting for visitors.

agreed!  it's a lot less intimidating.  makes us seem friendly and welcoming.  muahahahahahaha   :evillaugh:   (hehe)
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Re: Who is playing with the buttons?
« Reply #13 on: November 28, 2008, 05:33:18 PM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on November 28, 2008, 12:05:43 PM
the idea is to create a more appealing landing page for guests.  a place where they can get a better idea of what is in the forums from a single page.  The portal is an SMF mod that Rebel found, and I have always been curious about.  I played with it a bit last night, and some more today.

the middle column is the last 20 posts to any forum, then the latest three posts from breaking news, and finally a number of articles that we publish manually.  I just picked the first two out of the elections forum.  the stuff on the left and right columns is just fun sort of stuff about the board and the people in it.


Does that include Babe of the Day posts?  :-)

Love the new look BTW.
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Re: We have made some changes to the homepage
« Reply #14 on: November 28, 2008, 05:37:15 PM »
I noticed that when I post, I just get smart-ass responses.

I hope this bug has been fixed.
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Re: Who is playing with the buttons?
« Reply #15 on: November 28, 2008, 05:39:14 PM »
Quote from: bijou on November 28, 2008, 05:33:18 PM
Does that include Babe of the Day posts?  :-)

Love the new look BTW.

I had to test, yep at the bottom it shows a new post in the BOTD thread.  :)
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Re: Who is playing with the buttons?
« Reply #16 on: November 28, 2008, 05:45:30 PM »
Quote from: bijou on November 28, 2008, 05:33:18 PM
Does that include Babe of the Day posts?  :-)

Love the new look BTW.

lol  :)  Hilarious.  Those are the most important posts!!  ;)
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Re: Who is playing with the buttons?
« Reply #17 on: November 28, 2008, 05:46:31 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on November 28, 2008, 05:30:50 PM
The reason I wondered if it was random, was that yesterday it was taking me to a mostly blank page.  I'll get used to it, and it does make it more inviting for visitors.

my first run at putting the portal together wasn't exactly a success  :uhsure: :thatsright:;  thus, the blank homepage. Thor alerted me, and I commandeered someone's computer where I was at, and turned it back off.

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Re: Who is playing with the buttons?
« Reply #18 on: November 28, 2008, 05:48:27 PM »
Quote from: bijou on November 28, 2008, 05:33:18 PM
Does that include Babe of the Day posts?  :-)

Love the new look BTW.

a babe of the day post will show up in the most recent posts, if you have sufficient posts to see the shortbus in the first place.
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Re: Who is playing with the buttons?
« Reply #19 on: November 28, 2008, 05:48:44 PM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on November 28, 2008, 05:46:31 PM
my first run at putting the portal together wasn't exactly a success  :uhsure: :thatsright:;  thus, the blank homepage. Thor alerted me, and I commandeered someone's computer where I was at, and turned it back off.


If you turned the computer you commandeered off, how did you fix the problem?
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Re: Who is playing with the buttons?
« Reply #20 on: November 28, 2008, 05:49:35 PM »
Quote from: Sweet Dee on November 28, 2008, 05:32:12 PM
agreed!  it's a lot less intimidating.  makes us seem friendly and welcoming.  muahahahahahaha   :evillaugh:   (hehe)

look, let's face it, the sterile, standard SMF front page was boring to newbies.  it just didn't seem enticing.
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Re: Who is playing with the buttons?
« Reply #21 on: November 28, 2008, 05:50:39 PM »
Quote from: freedumb2003 on November 28, 2008, 05:48:44 PM
If you turned the computer you commandeered off, how did you fix the problem?
I turned the option, off via the commandeered computer.  thank you for noticing my poorly constructed sentence. :-)
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Re: Who is playing with the buttons?
« Reply #22 on: November 28, 2008, 05:51:36 PM »
Quote from: Sweet Dee on November 28, 2008, 05:45:30 PM
lol  :)  Hilarious.  Those are the most important posts!!  ;)
I was going to include "most popular threads", but most of them were run on threads, & etc, including the BOTD thread. :-)
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Re: We have made some changes to the homepage
« Reply #23 on: November 28, 2008, 06:13:34 PM »
A tiny thing...do you think it would be better for the forum to open in the same window when you click on it rather than a new window?

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Re: We have made some changes to the homepage
« Reply #24 on: November 28, 2008, 08:42:10 PM »
No, technically, it's better to have it open in a new window. That way, the reader always has our home page up. That makes it easier to navigate back to.
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