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New site

Jacques Corby-Tuech — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:52:37 +0000

I’ve been working on a new site, it’s not complete yet (the new version of vBulletin is a bit of a pig when it comes to styling). But it’s getting there. Still lots to do.

Here’s what it looks like at the moment.

Still a great deal to do as you can see, I’m looking into finding a way to automatically get various RSS feeds posting articles to the homepage, although I’ll have to be careful with how that’s used, I don’t want to steal other sites content.

Bans, what bans?

Jacques Corby-Tuech — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:50:39 +0000

Who needs a ban option when you’ve got the Miserable Users mod for you forum?

When classed as miserable, a member suffers ;

1. Slow response (time delay) on every page (20 to 60 seconds default).
2. A chance they will get the “server busy” message (50% by default).
3. A chance that no search facilities will be available (75% by default).
4. A chance they will get redirected to another preset page (25% & homepage by default).
5. A chance they will simply get a blank page (25% by default).
6. Post flood limit increased by a defined factor (10 times by default).
7. If they get past all this okay, then they will be served up their proper page.

I can’t wait to actually use it on someone.

Site Graphics

Jacques Corby-Tuech — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:11:12 +0000

Just worked on a few new buttons and a header for my site. Spent ages cutting ouch each individual letter, as I don’t have the font file.

It looks a hell of a lot better now.

CSS3 RGBA

Jacques Corby-Tuech — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:13:44 +0000

Trying to make a new skin for my forum that includes some element of the new CSS3 RGBA tag. It’s proving a little bothersome right now, as some of the elements are just showing up as black for some reason.
I’ll give it a go while combining it with some PNG transparent images for the troublesome areas, see how that works out.

Also need to get started on the Wiki stylesheet, reading up on it now, it looks like it should be relatively easy, but I’m probably just being wildly optimistic.

Also also, having a look at JQuery, trying to teach myself some things to make my site a little more interesting and interactive.

Changes to forum site

Jacques Corby-Tuech — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:23:04 +0000

I thought it might be worth listing all the changes I’ve made to my site from the standard forum and wiki installs.

Forums:

Changed style from default blue to custom grey style.
Added new forms to user profiles, then edited postbit php template to show those new forms under users names when they post.
Removed navbar and made new one using horizontal list, editted stylesheet and header php template to include the new navbar.
Added some new icons, with more to come.
Changed image library from GD to Imagemagick.
Added custom BB code (Youtube integration)
Created custom VBA frontpage modules.

Wiki:

Enabled short URL’s hack by changing some php and .htaccess file.
Changed front page from “main page” to “love wiki” for the sake of SEO.
Disabled anonymous editing.

There are, of course, more changes to come.

Custom navbar buttons

Jacques Corby-Tuech — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:46:45 +0000

Just added some custom navbar links to my VBulletin forum.

It wasn’t quite as tough as I’d thought, just a case of making custom CSS code for the horizontal list and then chopping out unnecessary parts from the navbar php template and adding my custom code in there. Now there aren’t any more superfluous links, and people should be able to find the Wiki link, what with the great big fucking “Wiki” button.

Strangely, it appears my code is no longer validating, so I’ll have to take a look at what exactly is causing that, hopefully it’s an easy fix.

Here’s an example of what the navbar used to look like. Here’s what it looks like now.