Re: Portal System for VBF
Honestly, what you should really do is unify everything. Make a large, mega developer site :D
In all seriousness, CodeGuru's UI is in need of a re-vamp. Why not re-do CodeGuru's UI and develop it in such a way where, if wanted, you could plug VBForums.com right into it. Share logins with both sites and both sites can have the same portal but different forum behind it (integrating the forums would be even better).
Of course this would be a huge project but I would love to see VBForums and CodeGuru work together. I would love even more to see CodeGuru's outdated UI get re-designed.
Re: Portal System for VBF
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Originally Posted by kasracer
Honestly, what you should really do is unify everything. Make a large, mega developer site :D
This might sound good, but often (most of the time) mega-sites don't do as well as focused sites.
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In all seriousness, CodeGuru's UI is in need of a re-vamp. Why not re-do CodeGuru's UI and develop it in such a way where, if wanted, you could plug VBForums.com right into it. Share logins with both sites and both sites can have the same portal but different forum behind it (integrating the forums would be even better).
Codeguru uses the same forums oftware as VBForums. Both use vBulletin. Codeguru also has a single sign-on between the site and forums. We can't roll VBForums into a single sign on (yet) with that site because there are numerous user names that overlap that are used by different people.
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Originally Posted by kasracer
I would love even more to see CodeGuru's outdated UI get re-designed.
As to Codeguru's design - a revamp is in the plans. Feel free to send suggestions to me via the feedback forum on Codeguru or via email.
Brad!
Re: Portal System for VBF
So no "revamp" for VBF? Wouldnt it be better to upgrade us (maybe at least to 3.6.x) and maybe add nice new style. To be honest, its really drab looking and we could use something new to spark some more/continued interest :D
Re: Portal System for VBF
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Originally Posted by RobDog888
So no "revamp" for VBF? Wouldnt it be better to upgrade us (maybe at least to 3.6.x) and maybe add nice new style. To be honest, its really drab looking and we could use something new to spark some more/continued interest :D
Amen.
Re: Portal System for VBF
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Originally Posted by brad jones
This might sound good, but often (most of the time) mega-sites don't do as well as focused sites.
Yup, I understand. I just have a natural tendency to lean towards a large knowledge base of information rather than scattered ones.
Would it be possible to create a combined search? It would be great if I could search for something with VBForums and have it search CodeGuru as well.
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Originally Posted by brad jones
As to Codeguru's design - a revamp is in the plans. Feel free to send suggestions to me via the feedback forum on Codeguru or via email.
That's awesome. I'll send you some feedback in the coming weeks :)
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Originally Posted by RobDog888
So no "revamp" for VBF? Wouldnt it be better to upgrade us (maybe at least to 3.6.x) and maybe add nice new style. To be honest, its really drab looking and we could use something new to spark some more/continued interest :D
IMHO, VBForums looks much newer and nicer than CodeGuru. CodeGuru's forum isn't half bad but the portal looks very old (no offence Brad!).
Re: Portal System for VBF
Well VBF's forums are the original site that vbulletin was developed on. I remember the 2.x version style and its basically the same as what we currently have.
We could have some gradients for the table headers and category headers as it would at least bring the look into the 21st century :D
Oh and file size/performance will be minimally impacted at most as you can make the gradients 1 pixel wide by 30 pixels tall. That will be ~100 bytes at most. That will be only 2 files downloaded as they are replicated across for a total of 200 bytes on the home page. Such a very very small price for such a improved look IMO.
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Originally Posted by kasracer
That's awesome. I'll send you some feedback in the coming weeks :)
Spec for developers is completed now. While it will likely be a couple months before they developers fit it into their schedules, if you take much time, then suggestions might not happen this round for Codeguru ;).
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Originally Posted by kasracer
IMHO, VBForums looks much newer and nicer than CodeGuru. CodeGuru's forum isn't half bad but the portal looks very old (no offence Brad!).
None taken. The last major site update for Codeguru was 3 years ago, so yes, it is dated based on "Internet" standards :)
Brad!
Re: Portal System for VBF
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Originally Posted by RobDog888
Well VBF's forums are the original site that vbulletin was developed on. I remember the 2.x version style and its basically the same as what we currently have.
We could have some gradients for the table headers and category headers as it would at least bring the look into the 21st century :D
Oh and file size/performance will be minimally impacted at most as you can make the gradients 1 pixel wide by 30 pixels tall. That will be ~100 bytes at most. That will be only 2 files downloaded as they are replicated across for a total of 200 bytes on the home page. Such a very very small price for such a improved look IMO.
We could have festive skins, oh and a Dilbert one :D Just kidding Brad, well okay only about the festive idea ;)
