The SpyderZone

Have an idea for something that would be cool on the SpyderZone? Post your ideas in this thread, and we will see what we can do about them! I will compile a list of ideas in this post along with their status.

[COMPLETE] Ability to change themes on the forum
[COMPLETE] Add formatting buttons to the quick reply box
[COMPLETE] Personal User Albums
[COMPLETE] Quick Reply Box

Note: Individual Registered Users on the site have 50 MB each within their own Personal User Album in the Gallery... Any abuse of this privilege will result in disciplinary actions.

Note: You can use the links below to try the styles... If you post while in "try" mode, you will return to the default style. If you leave and come back, you will be back to the default style. If you would like to make the style change permanent for yourself, go to the User Control Panel at the top of the page, go to the Board Preferences tab, change your Board Style, and Submit.

With Quick Reply
Prosilver (Board Default): http://www.spyderzone.net/joomla/index. ... hp&style=1
eTech: http://www.spyderzone.net/joomla/index. ... hp&style=5
AcidTech Red: http://www.spyderzone.net/joomla/index. ... p&style=10
Envision: http://www.spyderzone.net/joomla/index. ... p&style=11

Without Quick Reply
Ciquala: http://www.spyderzone.net/joomla/index. ... hp&style=2
xand: http://www.spyderzone.net/joomla/index. ... hp&style=4
proglass Red: http://www.spyderzone.net/joomla/index. ... hp&style=8
xandred: http://www.spyderzone.net/joomla/index. ... p&style=12

How about a personal user showroom that works alongside the gallery? One that basically works like the one on this RC site but for Paintball stuff.

A Quick Reply box

VagabondStarJXF wrote:How about a personal user showroom that works alongside the gallery? One that basically works like the one on this RC site but for Paintball stuff.

Actually, if what you're looking for is personal user galleries, I believe our gallery supports that... I will poke around in there later and have a look...

As for the quick reply box, good suggestion! I'll look into getting one set up.

Rebes

You might have noticed, there is now a quick reply button at the bottom of threads... clicking this button will open the quick reply box, letting you (you guessed it) reply quickly to a topic.

Enjoy!

Rebes

you are uber and I just used the QR button to prove it!!

Yeah. Nice one on the QR button. I've used it now aswell! How do I access the Personal User Gallery? It's been ages since I looked at SZ and then you go and change everything!

I've changed the gallery a bit... For your own Personal User Gallery, Check out the link at the bottom of the main page to "Your Album"... it will take you to a your named album within the "User Albums" album... Here, you will have access to upload pics, make sub albums, etc... give it a try and tell me what you think. After you've gone there the first time, you can reach it through the User Albums album on the main page (Or, again, just click on Your Album).

mmmmm........

Add buttons to the quick reply box:
B [bold]
U [underline]
I [italics]
Font color to change it
text size to modify it.

Also...how about the ability to change the layout/skin of the forum? I'm a big fan of black and red

Both good suggestions,

The formatting options on the quick reply shouldn't be too hard to get in, might need a mod from phpBB for that... I'll look into it...

As for forum skins, it's a little tougher to do that... I will need to find some skins that will fit nicely, given the colour scheme of the rest of the site... Then I'll have to test them to make sure they integrate well with Joomla, and make any changes to the CSS to make sure there are no collisions... It's on the list though, so I will be looking into it!

Rebes

Well, that was easy!

Quick reply now has lots of fancy options, courtesy of this mod:
http://www.phpbb.com/mods/db/index.php? ... b_id=14305

Enjoy

Rebes

YOU da MAN!!

lol

I have enabled some additional styles on the forum... Some of the styles I've enabled have the quick reply enabled, while some do not... This was a limitation of the style itself. As the styles are released with updated quick reply editors, I will replace them on this forum.

In the event that a style had the quick reply, I was able to add the formatting buttons to the quick reply box.

Note, some of these might not look great within the outer Joomla wrapper, but that's what you get

You can use the links below to try the styles... If you post while in "try" mode, you will return to the default style. If you leave and come back, you will be back to the default style. If you would like to make the style change permanent for yourself, go to the User Control Panel at the top of the page, go to the Board Preferences tab, change your Board Style, and Submit.

With Quick Reply
Prosilver (Board Default): http://www.spyderzone.net/joomla/index. ... hp&style=1
eTech: http://www.spyderzone.net/joomla/index. ... hp&style=5
AcidTech Red: http://www.spyderzone.net/joomla/index. ... p&style=10
Envision: http://www.spyderzone.net/joomla/index. ... p&style=11

Without Quick Reply
Ciquala: http://www.spyderzone.net/joomla/index. ... hp&style=2
xand: http://www.spyderzone.net/joomla/index. ... hp&style=4
proglass Red: http://www.spyderzone.net/joomla/index. ... hp&style=8
xandred: http://www.spyderzone.net/joomla/index. ... p&style=12

The AcidTech Red theme is a good red/black theme which includes the quick reply capability.

Let me know if you find anything that seems kinda buggy... I wasn't able to test every feature of every style...

R!

Installed a new WYSIWYG editor for Joomla that seems to be better than the built-in editor... Still doesn't handle numbered lists really well, but butter anyways.

When using the editor, find the full screen button to make it much easier to work on your articles...

R!