Re: New WebDNA Forum Solution (in development)
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Very, very nice Palle!Are you basing the functionality of the forum based off of existing canned forum titles such as UBB.Classic or the like or just winging it mostly? I like UBB, for it's ease of use and functionality. Yours looks very similar. So, based off of UBB that I'm familiar with, here's my only suggestions (and ones that you probably are already aware of):1. Make all the links in your hierarchy view linkable for easy navigation:Forum > WebDNA Forum (Development) > Development Log > First Build of WebDNA Forum2. Have a Hop To Forum pulldown menu at the top/bottom of pages inside of each forum for quick navigation to other topics.3. Change the reply as you have it now to be a single button at the top of each forum. Then change the reply button that you have now above each post to a reply with quotes. The difference being that the reply button above each post would be a specific reply to that post and not a reply in general for the topic. The reply with quotes of course would have the contents of the previous post in the text-area pre-wrapped with HTML formatting that would separate the quote from the new post (UBB uses it's own proprietary tags, and in quotable replies it wraps the quote with (simply enough) [QUOTE] [/QUOTE]. The quote should also list the author of that post. Hope all that makes sense.....4. Some like it and use it to rank seniority, but a member # might be nice on some forums.5. Profiles for each forum member, and links to view member profiles. Links to email forum members if they choose not to hide their email address.6. Searching features. Keyword, by topic, etc. for previous posts.7. Ability to add images or links to posts (links to images stored elsewhere).Again, these are all things that you probably already have plans on adding (or may not want to add) and this is based off the UBB Classic layout, which I'm just used to.Great job! Now the real question, how much? : )GK > Hi all, > > I have built a couple of Forum solutions using WebDNA as the > development tool. All the Forum solutions I made has been somewhat > specialized for specific purposes. I have been thinking for a long time > that it would be fun to develop a more generic WebDNA Forum solution - > and now is the time... > > Actually I have already spent a lot of hours developing the WebDNA > Forum and it's quite functional already but not finished. Need a lot of > features and polish even though it rather nice looking already. > > I you want to take it for a test ride - your more than welcome... > > http://www.qt.dk/ > > Constructive suggestions and feedback will motivate me to do a lot of > new functionality, so let your thoughts loose... :) I have lot of > ideas already but new ones will be received with a big smile and > enthusiasm. > > There is a Developer Log if you wish to follow the development/project. > > Palle B. Nielsen (PowerPalle) ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Very, very nice Palle!Are you basing the functionality of the forum based off of existing canned forum titles such as UBB.Classic or the like or just winging it mostly? I like UBB, for it's ease of use and functionality. Yours looks very similar. So, based off of UBB that I'm familiar with, here's my only suggestions (and ones that you probably are already aware of):1. Make all the links in your hierarchy view linkable for easy navigation:Forum > WebDNA Forum (Development) > Development Log > First Build of WebDNA Forum2. Have a Hop To Forum pulldown menu at the top/bottom of pages inside of each forum for quick navigation to other topics.3. Change the reply as you have it now to be a single button at the top of each forum. Then change the reply button that you have now above each post to a reply with quotes. The difference being that the reply button above each post would be a specific reply to that post and not a reply in general for the topic. The reply with quotes of course would have the contents of the previous post in the text-area pre-wrapped with HTML formatting that would separate the quote from the new post (UBB uses it's own proprietary tags, and in quotable replies it wraps the quote with (simply enough) [QUOTE] [/QUOTE]. The quote should also list the author of that post. Hope all that makes sense.....4. Some like it and use it to rank seniority, but a member # might be nice on some forums.5. Profiles for each forum member, and links to view member profiles. Links to email forum members if they choose not to hide their email address.6. Searching features. Keyword, by topic, etc. for previous posts.7. Ability to add images or links to posts (links to images stored elsewhere).Again, these are all things that you probably already have plans on adding (or may not want to add) and this is based off the UBB Classic layout, which I'm just used to.Great job! Now the real question, how much? : )GK > Hi all, > > I have built a couple of Forum solutions using WebDNA as the > development tool. All the Forum solutions I made has been somewhat > specialized for specific purposes. I have been thinking for a long time > that it would be fun to develop a more generic WebDNA Forum solution - > and now is the time... > > Actually I have already spent a lot of hours developing the WebDNA > Forum and it's quite functional already but not finished. Need a lot of > features and polish even though it rather nice looking already. > > I you want to take it for a test ride - your more than welcome... > > http://www.qt.dk/ > > Constructive suggestions and feedback will motivate me to do a lot of > new functionality, so let your thoughts loose... :) I have lot of > ideas already but new ones will be received with a big smile and > enthusiasm. > > There is a Developer Log if you wish to follow the development/project. > > Palle B. Nielsen (PowerPalle) ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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