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I have sent a email to the admin team about these ideas just thought i would see what you guys thought of them

My first one was a new forum skin (design) to spice the forum up and make it more fun with some new/old post icons and some cool smooth colours and borders.

My second was Userbars AKA rank bars for those of you that dont know what they are they are small images that go below the users user name with a different colour per rank they can be used to easily identify a member of staff, a users post count or even be awarded to people that have done good around the forum to show off to other users things like donating to the forum or being dedicated and helping others.

One of my other ideas i emailed across was about custom coded BB codes these are a small piece of html code that can be used to import things into the forum via a small inclosed piece of text an example of this is when you import a image you use the icon above and it imports a custom BBcode for you this being the [IMG ] (url here)[/IMG] but my idea was to code a admin and mod alert that only they are able to use, they can be used to help prevent rule breaking and also when i rule is broken they are used to cover up that text and are visible so everyone can see them to help prevent them breaking the same rule.

I have a few other ideas i may share at a later date as well.

I have told the owners I could give them previews of all these things and will be happy to help do these things if needed.


thank you for reading though these ideas sorry if i haven't explained them well.

-Jamie
 
nope wouldnt cost the owners a penny i am offering the forum these things it would take me a little while to do but I would not mind. I have worked on different vB forums before in the past including 1 site being a forum manager I have created many forums skins and edited many i can code custom bb codes and know alot about how vB forums work I sent the email 2 days ago though and as of yet had no reply
 
I kind of like the Forum the way it is, but maybe that's just me.

And Furryfriends to whom you wrote is an extremely busy person, and may not have had time yet to read your email - please be patient.
 
i can vouch for Debbie being very busy!

Bless her shes doing so much extra work to raise money for her dental sanctuary, so it might take a few days for her to reply.
 
Yes thats understandable they are just ideas of course.

and I know that and fully understand we are all busy people 8)
 
I will reply to your email when I have time. I run a Sanctuary for piggies with extra needs and have some very poorly piggies with me at the moment and they take priority over everything. To be entirely honest, I think the forum looks just fine as it is and can see no good reason to change it. The purpose of this forum is for members to help one another and for rescues to share with us the guinea pigs they have looking for forever homes, so not sure where cool smooth colours and borders come into it.

However, when I am less busy I will read your email properly and will respond.
 
I like the forum, if its not broken why fix it? :)) (but thats just me....) its easy to use, navigate and simple to read. :) But i also think its a lovely suggestion to help create it more colourful. :)
 
AudioHeart said:
I like the forum, if its not broken why fix it? :)) (but thats just me....) its easy to use, navigate and simple to read. :) But i also think its a lovely suggestion to help create it more colourful. :)
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Me too I really don't see why we need cool colours and stuff.
The forum is easy to use and we all get along with it just fine, and at the end of the day its a forum for help and advice and talking about piggies, why do we need to change it? It's fine the way it is
 
I am very glad to join this forum. This is a really good plate form that every one share their ideas and information and i am very thankful to you by sharing sych a nice information.
 
I don't think there is anything wrong with someone suggesting changes to the forum, especially if they are kind enough to do it for free. For all you know this could be someone looking to develop their portfolio to get a job or something - I know my OH offered to do a lot of free web work when he needed to build his own up.

There isn't really any need to be quite so 'we like it how it is, go away' about it.

I am on a horse forum that used to be just the basic VBulletin skin and layout and it crashed a lot, was not designed for lots of users, and basically had no identity. Then someone kindly did a huge amount of work on it, including streamlining the running of it, and it's been so much easier to use.

I think it's quite unfair to basically dismiss this kind offer before we have even seen any of the suggestions.
 
But any changes, alterations, additions, etc., aren't down to us. Those are decisions to be made by the owners and admin of the Forum, surely?
 
Putting aside whether we want to change the layout, colour etc of the forum, we also need to be very careful about who we give the admin tools to. I am not saying for one minute this person isn't to be trusted, but I would need to be absolutely sure about anyone before I would even consider givng log in info that could affect our forum.

I will be replying to this person when I have had time to consider what he is offering.
 
And to add to what Debbie said, yes most of these features don't cost money to add but like features we have had in the past (gallery, arcade to name a couple) they cost money in terms of bandwidth. Clean, slick forum that works vs a happy clappy blinky shiny one that exceeds its bandwidth and costs the owners a fortune?

I don't know of any VB forum that uses rank bars, I don't think it could be any clearer than the colours we use now and the user title displayed underneath. One of the features we already have.

I think it would be customary for a person to get to know the forum and become known ON the forum before offering services and have access to things that could quite literally make or break the database and years of hard work.
 
daftscotslass said:
I think it would be customary for a person to get to know the forum and become known ON the forum before offering services and have access to things that could quite literally make or break the database and years of hard work.
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But what if they don't like guinea pigs, but do like web design?

They can't exactly fabricate two guinea pigs to go on about to get known on the forum (though no doubt some people would consider it)

I don't know much about VBulletin and how it works to be honest, I just know how hard it is to get a portfolio when noone will give you the time of day, and so am quite sympathetic to anyone with this issue. I don't see there is any harm in the OP making up some designs based on the basic framework/layout without having the access to this particular site (as they say they have worked on VBulletin before and the little I do know is the basic 'core' is the same) and asking for people's opinion, even if it is just a basic layout design in Fireworks. If we like it maybe they could then give the necessary info to the admin to implement themselves?
 
I fully understand the trust side of things and one way around that is that if I instruct you on how to do these things and send all the files you need to do it to you there will be no need for me to have any powers on the forum. Anyway as stated it is up to the admin team here to say yes or no but what ever they say is up to them.

As for the cost of it if you are hosted by a good company you could get a upgrade on the package for no more than 5-6 pound per month.

for example this package

2TB Bandwidth
25GB Storage
cpanel hosting
FTP access
SQL Databases
and loads more

for 19.99 Per Month yes maybe for a large site like this 25GB is not enough for the size of the database

but even so you could get a bigger package. or do a donation scheme if money is tight to help raise money for the running of the site and give donations something on the forum in return.
 
I'm perfectly happy with the way the forum looks, some things don't need to be constantly updated, it might even put me off using it.
 
you can choose how the foum looks at the very bottom there is a drop down box this allows you to pick the skin (look) you wish to use.
 
Doeylicious said:
I don't think there is anything wrong with someone suggesting changes to the forum, especially if they are kind enough to do it for free. For all you know this could be someone looking to develop their portfolio to get a job or something - I know my OH offered to do a lot of free web work when he needed to build his own up.

There isn't really any need to be quite so 'we like it how it is, go away' about it.

I am on a horse forum that used to be just the basic VBulletin skin and layout and it crashed a lot, was not designed for lots of users, and basically had no identity. Then someone kindly did a huge amount of work on it, including streamlining the running of it, and it's been so much easier to use.

I think it's quite unfair to basically dismiss this kind offer before we have even seen any of the suggestions.
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I agree. I think is was a very nice offer. The forum does work just fine how it is but I think its great when people make suggestions on how to potentially improve things - shows they care ...
 
Lil_Piggles said:
I agree. I think is was a very nice offer. The forum does work just fine how it is but I think its great when people make suggestions on how to potentially improve things - shows they care ...
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Thank you like i have said it was only ideas was not saying they have to be done
 
I did have an idea sorry if I shouldn't be posting it here but I was thinking of optional membership which costs for eg. £12 p/year (or £1p/month) where you get a few extra features thrown in - access to an extra part of the forum, or larger storage on PMs

Some forums I use where you can't post For Sale ads (but can reply if you want to buy something) unless you're a paid up member.
 
Bailey said:
I did have an idea sorry if I shouldn't be posting it here but I was thinking of optional membership which costs for eg. £12 p/year (or £1p/month) where you get a few extra features thrown in - access to an extra part of the forum, or larger storage on PMs

Some forums I use where you can't post For Sale ads (but can reply if you want to buy something) unless you're a paid up member.
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We polled this idea a while ago and it was a resounding no. Thanks for the idea, though :)
 
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