The new web site

[Adrian]

Hi Antiloop!

Thanks very much for your feedback - I can respond as follows with reference to your questions:

1) I have been pleasantly surprised about the stability and speed so far. It has been extensively tested and bug fixed, but there is nothing like live users to test things http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/images/icon_Smile.gif" border=0>

The biggest problem so far are Mac IE browser users  due to font size interpretation on that browser - it seems very different from most other browsers - could be difficult to fix that.

2) Avatar capability exists now, we just need some Avatars. That is something I will be looking into later - I want to get the site working first.

3) The poll that should appear on the home page the first time the page is opened with a new poll should disappear after answering it. If it doesn't appear or disappear, please let me know - it does appear to be working though. The poll in the forum itself is a different matter - I will look into what can be done there.

4) The guest book is for all visitors, so that will be why it vcan't be edited - it cannot easily, now anyway, differentiate a logged in user from a visitor.

5) You are right about the Register link. I don't know why it is doing that - the link is derived from state information  - but I will look into it. Fortunately there are two other bigger and more prominent Register links that do work.

All of these pages are dynamically generated on the fly from the database, so it isn't just a matter of fixing static HTML for mos tof these things.

6) The "Important - Read now" box is clickable - that is the whole point - if you cannot click the headline to go the the message, please let me know - but it works for me right now.

7) We haven't formally opened the file library yet - that is something we will be doing soon.

Same with the Classified - we will have many more sections - I will probably ask for suggestions when the time comes - hopefully soon.

9) The events needs twaeking as well - that will be sorted with 7) and above.

10)  I am not sure about the active topics - it should work - it could be a cookie problem - I will check that.

11) The software is heavily modified. If you are interested let me know. I am also considering offering a full hosting service for anyone, using this software, and including Web site, virus scanned email, domain and DNS hosting etc. etc..

Thanks again!

With best regards,

Adrian.

[antiloop]

Hi Adrian, I've signed the guestbook with some input, but here's some more:

1) I'm on a 200 Mhz Pentium and I don't find the site slow nor crashing like the others, I'm running IE 5.5, but I do have an ADSL connection.

2) When can we start using avartars in our preferances area ? It shows as "none" right now.

3) That poll you put up needs to dissapear after you answer it, and/or you should at least have an option to not answer it and still have it go away. Better yet, you might want to simply keep it as an area in the forum, where one can volunterily go in there and view/answer the latest polls, rather than have it come up like a banner ad.

4) I noticed I couldn't go back into the guestbook and edit my reply, I guess this is because the guestbook doesn't look at whether I am a true guest or a registered member huh? I meant "chat room" not "chat forum" in my post there, just to clarify, since there is also a chat forum

5) The "Register" link under the login area at the top right hand corner gave me a broken link when I tried to use it.

6) The "Important Read it Now" section... If you will be posting anything really important there, you should either make it clickable so we can go directly to read the entire text or make that box bigger. Regardless of how important the message may be, I'm not going to sit around here reading it line by line as it sloooowly scrolls by

7) You should allow the registered members to upload files into the file area... of course these should first be viewed/approved by the forum moderators.  Given the number of people in this forum, I think we could come up with a nice little collection of files

How come the classifieds are divided into 2 sections - Computers and wanted.  I guess the real question is... why computers ? Shouldn't it be:
For sale and Wanted ? Or something like that ?

9) You are currently allowing registered members to post events, but this feature does not work. It says try again. I'm guessing the function of adding events is reserved as it should for site admins only ?

10) How come it shows ZERO active topics, when in fact there are several that appear active ?

11) Overall, I like the new features Adrian I was wondering, what software are you using for these new features? I might want to do something similar with another site.

Thanks,
antiloop

"He who pursues the path of even mindedness is neither jubilant with gain, nor depressed by loss." - Paramahansa Yogananda