Forum Features Log
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:14 pmThis forum started out as a plain vanilla PHPBB forum.
But after an early comment from Scott Wise (thanks Scott!!!) about the somewhat plain look, I went searching for something unusual but familiar. I found the X-Silver template and decided to use it on the top level of the forum. I also sifted through dozens and dozens of other templates to use for the various Chapter forums to try to give each one a distinctive look.
Along the way, I've had to do various upgrades to the PHPBB software. One of the things I noticed missing was an easy way to see all the "hot" topics across our various forums. So I did a little research and added the "Hot" button to many of our pages.
I also found that there were some neat features I'd always wanted on other forums (like various levels of indenting, and primitive graphics capabilities). So I added these to the BBCodes for this forum.
Another nice little contribution was donated by Margie's daugher Sonja who drew up the "rolling on the floor laughing" emoticon (
). If you've ever wondered what the "s" was in the "srofl" tag ... it stands for Sonja. Thanks Sonja!!!
More recently I got some prodding from DarthVader about getting YouTube videos on the forum (thanks Al!!). So I recently investigated and added the BBCodes for that as well.
Step by step (and with a lot of help from the community) we're making the US Hawks a better and better forum.
Thanks to everyone!!
But after an early comment from Scott Wise (thanks Scott!!!) about the somewhat plain look, I went searching for something unusual but familiar. I found the X-Silver template and decided to use it on the top level of the forum. I also sifted through dozens and dozens of other templates to use for the various Chapter forums to try to give each one a distinctive look.
Along the way, I've had to do various upgrades to the PHPBB software. One of the things I noticed missing was an easy way to see all the "hot" topics across our various forums. So I did a little research and added the "Hot" button to many of our pages.
I also found that there were some neat features I'd always wanted on other forums (like various levels of indenting, and primitive graphics capabilities). So I added these to the BBCodes for this forum.
Another nice little contribution was donated by Margie's daugher Sonja who drew up the "rolling on the floor laughing" emoticon (
). If you've ever wondered what the "s" was in the "srofl" tag ... it stands for Sonja. Thanks Sonja!!!More recently I got some prodding from DarthVader about getting YouTube videos on the forum (thanks Al!!). So I recently investigated and added the BBCodes for that as well.
Step by step (and with a lot of help from the community) we're making the US Hawks a better and better forum.
Thanks to everyone!!
