Neil Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 Welcome back everybody! As you can see the major upgrade of the web site was completely successful and we are now back open for business. It would take me an age to describe all the changes that have been made to the web site and so rather than bore you with the details I will allow you all to just search about and find out for yourself!As always, there is bound to be a few problems here and there. If you run into any problems then please first refresh the page. Practically every graphic, page, module and template has changed in some way and to it's important your web browser loads all this new stuff up and not cached data from the last version of the web site. If you still have problems then please post your report of the problem into the Technical Problems forum and I'll then check it out.There is one or two minor sections of the web site that still need to be completed and a few graphics that still need to be updated but I'm working on these at the moment. Most of the web site should be absolutely fine.Another new era for aberdeen-music has now begun. Have fun everyone and thanks once again for your patience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 its beautiful Neil. Well done man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 It's much, much faster than before, so that's good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smooth_groover Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 Excellent job sir! The site looks really fresh and yes, it seems to be running alot faster!Nice one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 Affa guid min.Top notch.Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MDP Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 yup, the site looks fuckin' A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swingin' Ryan Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 I think this is my favourite of the various site refurbishments I've seen this site go through. The gig flyer bit at the top looks brilliant. Job well done:up: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gall_4185 Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 Cool stuff,glad to see it back up and running Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben_1903 Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 Its awesome dude - but where are the band forums? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyQuinn Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 oooh so fancy pantsy!x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted December 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 Its awesome dude - but where are the band forums?They're still there. They are now all under the Local Band Forums category on the forum home page: http://www.aberdeen-music.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachie Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 Ooo pretty! I like the idea of having the local event flyers on the front page.Looks great Neil, well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted December 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 Thanks guys - glad you like it. I can't take credit for the flyers idea - that was a suggestion from gridlock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MDP Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 where has the bit gone that shows you all the new posts since your last visit in a nice long list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted December 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 where has the bit gone that shows you all the new posts since your last visit in a nice long list?Search -> Find New Posts It's a drop-down option in the Search menu item. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MDP Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 cheers... i see you havnt got rid of the 8 charachter ruel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skull Commander Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 cheers... i see you havnt got rid of the 8 charachter ruelRubbiss(space filler) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Logan Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 I liked when we were able to customise the colour of Aberdeen Music. I liked it being Orange and Yellow.This looks pretty swish and lot lot less cluttered somehow....well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kernel Loaf Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 The white background is raping my eyes though!Any chance of a darker skin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 cheers... i see you havnt got rid of the 8 charachter ruelgo on neil, make it a 20 character rule (and get rid of the postcounts too :|) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feeble! Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 go on neil' date=' make it a 20 character rule (and get rid of the postcounts too :|)[/quote']I noticed the post counters were back aswell.Are they back for a trial period only, or are they back for good?Maybe there'll be less spam this time around, what with the minimum character rule and so on. Well, we can only hope, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feeble! Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Oh, I do have one small niggle.When you post in a few threads, it's a bit difficult to see which threads you've posted in have new posts - I think the black dot made it clearer. If that makes sense. And if it doesn't, then meh - been a long day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted December 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Okay, in response to some of your questions:- No, there won't be any other skins added to the web site to choose from. This one skin has been customised so much that it would prove to be an incredible amount of work to have to duplicate these same customisations for every additional skin. Not to mention having to redo all the graphics to suit a darker background. Since v4 of the web site aberdeen-music will only ever have one skin I'm afraid.- The post counts will remain for now. If it proves to be an issue then I'll remove them in due course.- Good point about the post icons. I'll create some new ones that will indicate which threads you have posted within - thanks for pointing that out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartmaxwell Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 - why is it that sometimes an avatar is present and then other times they are not???- what happened to theLocation - in a houseBands - element 106 etcTalents - "guiatar"layout. they were always a great source of entertainment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted December 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 - why is it that sometimes an avatar is present and then other times they are not???That shouldn't be happening. Care to give me an example of this problem?- what happened to theLocation - in a houseBands - element 106 etcTalents - "guiatar"layout. they were always a great source of entertainmentThere are all still there and can be viewed on the user's profile page. The reason I took them out of the post template was because of formatting issues. For example, if you put in too many bands or a long location then this would sometimes screw up the display of the post. And I like things to be just perfect so it got removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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