Location: Cleveland, OH
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Hello...
It is time to bring CNL up to date finally. It will be done by April 1 (if not sooner).
STYLES
I have looked at several different styles and these are the ones I like so far:
buziness_board
3myl_excellence
Absolution
If you feel like googling 'PHPBB3 STYLES' for other styles, I'm open to suggestions. Please participate and post a link in this thread if you see something you like. Pay attention to the way the style works, for instance, in Absolution the user info is on the left, but in buziness_board it is on the right. Styles that don't get actively updated by the developer are harder to maintain, so I will steer away from those unless I absolutely love it!
If I think your style will work for us, I'll install it on the test form. We'll revisit this in a week or so and start a poll for the official new look.
VALIDATION
Validation will be fixed with the upgrade. There will be no POST validation, but the events forms will still require TOPIC validation. As an added benefit, we can give individual users the ability to start new topics if they do it right consistently.
CALENDAR
I have not looked at Calendar options yet. I'm not sure how many of you use this feature currently, but it is rather useful in my opinion for people that want to know what is happening on any given night.
MODERATORS
This is much more involved and you would have to have good internet skills. We'll keep some of the current ones, and others have not been active. I'll be looking for more, if you have interest show it by participating in the demo. If want moderator (or even admin) capabilites on the demo form, let me know.
GROWING PAINS
There will be a learning curve, and growing pains. We'll wipe out the 'Bugs/Help' section when we go live and start fresh and work them out as you find them and have problems. The 'Permissions' are complicated so if something isn't working as you feel it should you need to speak up in the support form. HTML does not work on PHPB3 so you may need to fix your sig and some of the u-tube posts won't work. It uses ONLY BBCode though I can create new BBCODE options if we need them down the road.
DEMO FORUM
http://clevelandnightlife.net/future is the demo board that I set up. Your current user account is active there now.
Please limit your posts to the 'CNL 2.0 Test Category' because that is all I'll be looking at. All data from THIS board will carry over when we go live, but any posts you make there, will not carry over to the new board.
You can change your style, by going to USER CONTROL PANEL : BOARD SETTINGS : BOARD STYLE. When we go live, we will all use the same one.
GRAPHICS
When we decide on a Style, we'll need new graphics. All you artists, get ready!
TAPATALK
http://clevelandnightlife.net/future has TAPATALK installed for all you app fans. It is currently on the ABSOLUTION style (which is currently the default). I'm not sure if you change your BOARD STYLE (when logged in from a pc) if it will affect this app. Unfortunatley, I don't have cool phone to test it on.
Any other questions, suggestions, or input is welcome.
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