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opinions please
« on: May 04, 2011, 08:25:29 AM »
Our original site that Chris kindly organised is now pretty dated.
Many new developments like html5 and CSS have become the new coding to use to make websites modern and fast.

I want to discard the old site (it is basically our front page) and create a front page in the forum theme, so it looks more organised and together.

With this is mind, there is a new forum being developed and will be live soon.
We currently use SMF for our forum and the new one is called Wedge. Nothing will be lost and it should be seamless.

I will run both forums together for a while so we can all evaluate them side by side.
I am pretty sure the Wedge software is going to be my preferred platform - but it is up for all to imput.
I will let you all know when it is up and running, leave it for a while and then we can vote on which way to go.
Cheers
Nick
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I think that's how dogs spend their lives."
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« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2011, 10:57:16 AM »
Whatever you do I am sure it will be great, thanks for all the input, the tech stuff  goes over my head I'm afraid. If it looks good then it gets my vote

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« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2011, 11:07:27 AM »
Whatever you do I am sure it will be great, thanks for all the input, the tech stuff  goes over my head I'm afraid. If it looks good then it gets my vote
Im with you on that one kaz ;)
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« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2011, 12:24:36 PM »
You must be bored talking to yourself.......or is it your other self??????

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« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2011, 04:53:45 PM »
Sorry - I've been out of the loop for a bit. Seeing the standard of the site, I'm sure we can trust Nick to come up with something that looks great.

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« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2011, 09:50:55 PM »
dont see a problem with that nick

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« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2011, 01:52:16 PM »
thanks stu and chris
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« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2011, 10:27:19 AM »
Hi Nick,
I, like the others, have complete faith in you to do the right thing..... although I'm not sure about the 'wedgies'!....  :o ;D

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« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2011, 11:06:22 AM »
Hi Karen,
Thanks for the vote  8)

An update -
SMF will go gold tomorrow - meaning major bugs are fixed, then Wedge will be fully refined and released in due course.
Within SMF there will be no major changes, the quiz might not work but that shouldnt bother most.

As for Wedge - the media gallery will be a better version and overall the forum will be very fast (not that is it slow now). I have to work on changing the colour to a more familiar blue base.

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« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2011, 11:29:58 AM »
if you must !! ;)
always dive deep and long

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« Reply #10 on: May 30, 2011, 04:21:53 PM »
if you must !! ;)

Nice to see your enthusiasm hasn't wained :)
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« Reply #11 on: May 31, 2011, 10:33:47 AM »
Waiting for the change!!

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« Reply #12 on: May 31, 2011, 06:58:30 PM »
Waiting for the change!!

Kaz,
Me too!!
There wont be a change to the site you see now...............unless you are geeky enough to notice that "Powered by SMF 2.0 RC4" has changed to "Powered by SMF 2.0"
When Wedge is cracking away I will let y'all know
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« Reply #13 on: May 31, 2011, 07:15:08 PM »
no!! no!!! not THE WEDGE  :o :o
always dive deep and long

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« Reply #14 on: June 01, 2011, 03:42:42 PM »
no!! no!!! not THE WEDGE  :o :o

'fraid so..... the developer is French. I dont think they are known for their humour :) - sorry Nao if you read this ;)
Update - the SMF upgrade to gold version 2.0 has developed a few bugs and will not be released for a few days.
Cheers
N
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 "If we fell forwards we'd still be in the fuckin’ boat."

 

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