Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

DavidG

A big hello to everyone! Great to see all the names from the past. Glad to have you on board.

This site should be much easier to use than the old MSN site.

DavidG

Aha! Where's the light bulb smilie?

DavidG

Looks great! Much better this way.

If we ever get too busy, we can always add a separate forum, say for offlines, etc. But a single forum is just fine for our size.

DavidG

Scott, I thnk you've nailed the typical characteristics of Cali Pinot vs. Burg - of course there are always exceptions. Most of my red wine drinking is Bdx, Rhones, and Cabs. Occasionally a Pinot is nice, but I've never really been infected by the Burg Bug, even though some of the best wines I've ev...

DavidG

Ignore me if I'm not making sense here - you've probably forgotten more about web stuff than I will ever know.

Wont the full posts disappear with MSN communities?
I kind of like the abbreviated results - makes it easly to search through a long list without slogging through a bunch of posts.

DavidG

Somewhere we need to have a bunch of '05 Burgs - especially since you named them collectively BWE WOTY. Not sure we want to "pollute" our Saturday dinner with Burgs :shock: - but maybe that would be a good theme for Friday. I don't own any, but apparently there are a bunch of reasonably pr...

DavidG

A few - Siduri, Loring, & a few others here and there - not too expensive or exclusive. They are not at all like Burgs IMO. I've also liked Dehlinger and Kistler - but they're harder to obtain and more costly.

DavidG

I agree - leaving it gives people a chance to see what was done and why - if they are interested.

DavidG

I e-mailed Eric Levine about this - he said CellarTracker can't do autoposting to phpBBs. Some kind of security issues that are too complex to work around - he's tried and failed with Robin Garr's WLDG which runs the same software. So we are limited to cut/paste. So I would just delete the CellarTra...

DavidG

Maybe gilding the lily at this stage, but another question...

Is there a BB option to present the site formatted for phone/PDA screens? Some BBs do this better than others. I'm aceeaing the site with my phone now and it's almost unreadable.

DavidG

All of the above sounds good.

I'm in agreement about using the delete button rarely. I doubt I would ever use it without consulting with you, Jim, or one of the other managers first.

DavidG

Yup, that fixed it. I had to close the browser and restart, but it's now working correctly.

We'll probably find a few more bugs along the way, but this looks awfully good.

DavidG

I'm clicking on the title of the thread, not the view last post button, and it takes me right to the quick reply post ready to type with a cursor right in the quick reply box. Somehow I don't recall it doing that the other day, but I could be remembering wrong. My browser is Internet Explorer versio...

DavidG

Looks fine to me. I love the photo gallery. Can the front page be updated with announcements from time to time? Or links to important threads? We may want to highlight some things for people as they enter, like the annual convention thread, even though we now have "sticky" threads that wil...

DavidG

If you jump to the "Members" list (the link on the right just under the logo, between the FAQ and Logout links), you can see all the members. This list can be sorted by column, but the color of the column labels is the same as the color of the border on my computer. Is everyone else gettin...

DavidG

I can make it go to the first post on opening the thread by turning off the quick reply box in the user control panel. Can I have it both ways, with the thread opening to the first post, and the quick reply box sitting at the bottom of the page? I thought that's how it was behaving originally... or ...

DavidG

I tend to agree with Scott re: the MD.

On another note - seems like when I open a thread, it goes right into the quick reply box instead of to the first post in the thread. Any way to change that?

DavidG

I don't think we need avatars. They seem to be the "thing to do" at most BBs. I kind of like it when I recognize the poster immediately from the avatar and make an association - it adds a bit more personality. But then multiple people end up choosing the same avatar, or some keep changing ...

DavidG

A bar showed up on the "reported" post = probably visible only to managers. I clicked on the bar and got a "report" - with options to do a bunch of stuff. I clicked on "close report" and the bar disappeared. Didn't get any email. I don't think we need the report this po...

DavidG

Yup - Phil must have changed that while I wasn't looking...

DavidG

Any thoughts about number of posts per page? Ten seems too few. Is that user configurable? If not, can we set it to something like 25 or 30?

DavidG

Checking back in... I think the new layout with the text to the left and the rotating pics to the right looks fabulous! Great work! Text size looks fine. Adding a few pics with people in them is a good idea. Don't know if adding captions to the pics is possible or even if it woud look good, but some...

DavidG

...in light of which, we might want to eliminate the "CellarTracker" forum, and just let TNs post to the main forum. I think it's best to have TNs mixed in with the other discussions. Keeping them in separate forums tends to reduce page views because it requires extra clicks to go between ...

DavidG

Eric's reply to my query about auto-posting from CellarTracker: I have found that phpBB seems to defy any attempts at external posting. No one who has a phpBB has ever been able to tell me if there is any kind of “whitelist” feature to allow cross-posting from specific IP’s or referrers. So it sound...

DavidG

A larger font on the front page would be OK, but I agree that simple and uncluttered is best. I wonder how the layout would look with one pic to the right of the text, then two below the text, then a final pic or two below that, with a little space between the pics so they don't run into each other....

DavidG

Corinne was unbelievably gracious in both large and small ways. Large - well, the whole evening and dinner. Small - my camera batteries were running low just prior to this shot and as I was grabbing a new pair from my jacket pocket she was already calling for one of her staff to fetch some fresh one...

DavidG

Yup - that's Corinne between me and Gee-man at Margaux.

DavidG

OK one more to consider:

: JM Cazes and BWE's own Tim McC - lunch at Lynch; Lynch Bages lunch JM Cazes.jpg (58.74 KiB) Viewed 11648 times

DavidG

I kind of like the group shot at d'Issan, the long shot of Margaux (with the staff awaiting our arrival at the gates), the group lunch in St. Emilion, and the close-up of the glass of Yquem with the empty bottle. The shot on the steps of Margaux with Corinned Mentzelopoulos with the group is nice to...

DavidG

I think you should pick whichever 3 or 4 you like best. At least 1 or 2 should have a lot of BWEers in them - we're about people, not just places or things.

DavidG

Yes, I didn't get around to re-sizing them. I just wanted to get them up here quickly so you could see them. I think Phil can easily resize them when he posts them to the front page. If not, just have him e-mail me and I can repost the pics in a smaller size. Regular users will be limited in the siz...

DavidG

Can't resist - here are some more...

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DavidG

Here's another bunch of pics from the 2005 BWE trip to Bdx.

: 61 Margaux en magnum at the Chateau; Margaux - 61 en magnum.jpg (26.2 KiB) Viewed 11673 times

: Ch Margaux; Margaux.jpg (55.4 KiB) Viewed 11681 times

: Cooperage at Margaux; Margaux cooperage.jpg (44.39 KiB) Viewed 11677 times

: In the tasting room at Haut Brion; Haut Brion tasting.jpg (53.65 KiB) Viewed 11676 times

: Barrel making at Haut Brion; Haut Brion Barrel Making 2.jpg (59.49 KiB) Viewed 11675 times

: The group at Haut Brion; Haut brion group 2.jpg (52.31 KiB) Viewed 11672 times

: Cheval Blanc; cheval blanc.JPG (64.02 KiB) Viewed 11676 times

DavidG

To attach a photo, you need to go to "Post a Reply" - the Quick Reply box wont work. Then click on the "Upload Attachment" tab at the bottom of the page. Browse to the file you wish to upload, add a comment/caption if you wish (this will stay with the pic when posted online, or y...

DavidG

2002 Siduri Rosella's Vyd Pinot Noir: Medium-dark red. Ripe, bright strawberry and cherry on the nose with a bit of alcoholic heat. Medium body, ripe fruit on palate, good balance but alcohol pokes through a bit. Medium finish smooths out some, very good, drink up.

DavidG

It looks like the software starts a new page after 10 posts. Can that be increased to 30-40 posts per page? Less clicking from page to page for multi-post threads that way. And I don't think it will slow down the page loads significantly.

DavidG

That's what happens when you get over 50, Jim...

You'll get used to it.

DavidG

WLDG uses similar software and has a security issue with auto-posts from CT, but that may be something that WLDS set up rather than something inherent in the BB software.

I've e-mailed Eric - let's see what he says.

DavidG

Cool. So regular user "Phil" no longer has the "delete" button now that there are following replies. Do you still see the "edit" button as a regular user? And if you click on the edit button, does the window that comes up still give an option to delete the post rather t...

DavidG

I like the "Last edited" notation. It doesn't kick in right away, so it allows you to add content or correct typos or errors or tone down a rant if you hit "send" too soon. But it also notifies the group that you changed something if you do so later down the road after a, perhaps...

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