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[Data]

Made a few changes to the sites homepage, it’s displaying some more info about the latest trends and stats, also added a forum search.

Did something similar to the header on the main forum index page a couple of days ago too.   

Not sure why, just felt like doing it 

[Freddy]

Looking good   Are you getting the hang of PHP now ?

[Data]

On a scale of 1 to 10 I would say I’m somewhere around 4 or 5 when it comes to php, a year ago would have seen me at 1, so im getting there but have a way to go.

At one point I nearly contacted you Freddy for some help but I kept working on it and eventually worked it out.

To get it to work I had to edit the SSI.php, which has given me some more ideas for tweaks to the site.  

[Data]

16 new smileys to play with, and thanks to Dave for wavejump 
 
 

 









 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

[DaveMorton]

Well, I was all set to send another 200+ emotes your way, but the zip file was too large!

I guess I'll have to look through all you have, and send a few that you don't.

[edit]scratch that. I found that there were several files in there that should not have been. There are 214 emotes, and a text file (emotes.txt) that contains information on all of the smilies, listed by the keystrokes, file name, and image size. I think it may prove useful.

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[Data]

Thanks for the emotes Dave they are a nice collection for sure, but there is a problem with using some of them on a dark background site like this site, most emoticons are made for a light background and have white pixels round the edges that look pretty bad on a dark background.

I spent about 5 hours cleaning up the sixteen I added.

Having said that I have saved them on my PC and will look into adding some from it at sometime. 

[DaveMorton]

Most of those should be ok on a dark background, since one of Morti's colour schemes for his page is a black background with white text, and I had to make sure that the emotes didn't have that annoying little white halo.

[Data]

I have added a dropdown menu for the fonts on new posts, now you can select font face, colour and size easier, should you want to.

Font Face

Colour

Size

[Data]

The BTT board has been renamed to Motor Sport General Discussion, now the board can be used for anything to do with motor sport, cars, engines, racing etc…

[DaveMorton]

Very nice, Data. Thanks.

One request for a site tweak, if you please:

Can we maybe get a choice of notification sounds? Maybe something a bit less obtrusive? I don't want to force others to listen to something else, mind you. I just want to be able to choose between available sounds (or even to be able to choose my own, from what I have). I can provide some tiny MP3 files, if need be.

[Data]

It could be done, but would need a lot of coding in parts of the site that I’m not confident with yet, fancy a go?

I’m hoping there will be a turn off option, in the next version that’s being worked on.

Sorry you find the sound  obtrusive, did try hard to get a sound that wasn’t to harsh or annoying, but its something we can look at and think how to improve.  


EDIT:

I could maybe reduce the volume of the sound, it’s at about half volume now.     

[DaveMorton]

I'll have a look at the eNotify code, and see if I can cobble together some control panel entries for it. It's going to have to take a low priority though, until I get the porch/village room completed. BTW, I'm taking pictures, and will post them somewhere, at some point.

[Data]

That would be a nice little touch if you could Dave  , I fully understand its low priority right now.     

[DaveMorton]

Just please try to remind me if you don't hear from me about it by next Wednesday. I don't want this to slip through the cracks.

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