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PhilR

OK great, I don't spose you can do a screenshot of what the fourm looks like and post it here could you?

PhilR

Have you tried doing a hard refresh? It could be that your Treo (not heard of them before btw) has cached part of the stylesheet or something.

PhilR

OK I've changed the code for the header slightly so it should display properly on an iPhone - I can't be sure of this as I've only got an iPhone emulator, not the real thing - but it should stop the search box coming down and getting messed up with some of the navigation. Can someone confirm this? M...

PhilR

Looking in to this...

PhilR

Joe Belmaati wrote:I commend the tech guys on going with a phpBB installation. It's amazing what can be had for nothing.

I've been more impressed with phpBB than any other piece of open-source software I've used. Really powerful, usable and with lovely well-written and well-commented code.

PhilR

Can I just say that I'm absolutely loving this!

I've never been so excited about launching a website

PhilR

Right, re-reading my post it looks like it could be misconstrued, shame there's no smiley for "mock interrogatory".

PhilR

Yep, I''m glad it's still working!

PhilR

Wikipedia reveals that may be some sort of quip about the delay in the site opening. Am I right Ian?

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tim wrote:Any options to have a chat room linked?

Yeah I think we should consider this. Would be nice to have user accounts seamlessly linked so it'll take a bit of work. Couple of other things to do first though.

PhilR

Thank you

I'm having great fun watching the members list, 12 people have registered in as many minutes since it opened.

PhilR

Yes it's now open

PhilR

The posts have been copied by Bill's system so they'll survive the demise of MSN Groups. It's just that currently his site returns search results that link to the original post, so i'm asking him to change it so it shows the entire post so it's not necessary to go to MSN to view it (which will of co...

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I've contacted Bill and I think he's going to change his BWE search site so it returns full posts instead of links to MSN. He also should be sending me the "directory tree" so I can access the raw data to see if I can do anything with it. I say "think" because I've not heard back...

PhilR

OK, I quite like that idea actually

PhilR

Should we clear out the fourm before launch later?

PhilR

OK I've made the changes; in summary: Deleted all other forums except this one (moved CT topic from that forum to this one first) and renamed this forum "Forum". Changed forum link in menu so that it goes straight to this forum and not the "top-level", i.e so users don't have to ...

PhilR

HI David, yes I talked to him as well, but I think I can program something up that will allow him to do autoposting so I just told him that I'd have a look in to it and get back to him.

PhilR

I'm off to bed now. Jim if you can let me know what you think about this I'll be able to do it in the morning so you'll have time to review it before launch, as I say they're not big changes and are easy to put back if desired.

PhilR

Oh, and Cellar Tracker integration doesn't need it's own page. If/when we get that going what will happen is that when someone posts a TN on CT, they'll have an option to post it to BWE as well, then it'll appear here as a new topic in the forum. Is that how you envisioned it? Want to make sure we'r...

PhilR

I meant to put the links to those pages in the menu bar between 'Home' and 'Forum', I'll do little icons for them as well like I have for the forum link, that way they'll be always accesible. This is pretty quick to do, and I think it'd be better to get it set up this way before we open the site to ...

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It's just occured to me that it'd probably be better to have Retailers and BWE Archive as a separate page linked to in the menu (like the home page) that way we can just have the one discussion thread/forum, like in the old BWE. How does that sound? CT Integration I'm going to be working on and I sh...

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I'll have a look in to that David

PhilR

Turn out this was a bug, i've applied the fix from the phpBB support forum and it seems to have stopped now.

PhilR

Thanks Jim, I wouldn't recommend posting his email address here though, it's likely to get picked up by Spam Bots and he won't thank you for that!

I'll send him an email and report back

PhilR

Yes I've just seen it happens when I use IE7 as well, I'll have a look in to it

PhilR

Yeah that's the only thing I've got to do... looking forward to it

PhilR

Great, one thing I would say though is if you do log in as Admin, please be careful with the settings of the forum, I don't understand it completely myself and there are a lot of settings that can be changed/deleted etc.

Thanks

PhilR

I've just found his website from the BWE search and contacted him via that, I'll let you know what he says.

PhilR

1. Yep 9pm sounds great. Putting reminder in my calendar now...

2. This sounds fine and I like the idea about not deleting messages.

3. I sent you the Admin login a few days ago, have you not got it? That gives you complete control over phpBB

4. Sounds good, that's a lot of emails

PhilR

Great

PhilR

I've just checked my emails and I sent you an email asking for his email address in December, did you get that?

PhilR

I wouldn't rule this out just yet, there should be a way to do this.

David, could you send me Eric's email address? Or send him mine and ask him to contact me about this, thanks.

PhilR

Was it Billo who set up the BWE search? His program does pretty much exactly what we want to do now, I would think he could change it so that it indexed entire posts and allowed searching/viewing without linking back to the original post. Is he still in touch Jim? If we can get an archive of the sit...

PhilR

Thanks Jim.

Anyone else have any thoughts?

PhilR

Yep OK, I'll get rid of it. If in the future we have problems with lots of bad posts it may help to have it turned on, but for now I prefer it without... less is more!

PhilR

OK

We could always trial run them later and turn them off again if it's decided we don't want them

PhilR

Yes, well spotted. I've changed it to white now.

PhilR

David, it's OK for me. Can you tell me what you're clicking on to view the thread and also what browser and version you're using? (Find browser here if you're not sure: http://www.lorem.biz/mywebbrowser.asp ) thanks Edit: are you clicking the little "view the latest post" icon next to thei...

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Good point! I spose one situation where it might be useful though is when we have a lot of users and Moderators might miss unwanted posts and someone else could report them. I've reported your post as a test, can you let me know if you get an email or something? I'm not really sure how it works ATM.

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