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« on: July 13, 2009, 02:35:51 PM »

Have you thought of making the forum look nicer? I hope you don't take offense to that question but it just lacks any spark in the design stakes. Even a logo would help spice things up a bit. A nice colour scheme would also be welcome.

Just suggestions...  Wink
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« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2009, 12:11:04 PM »

All suggestions are welcome Spocky, really busy with massive amounts of other stuff at the moment, but yes I can see that some work on prettying things up wouldn't go amiss Smiley
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« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2009, 11:52:39 AM »

lots of free templates here - http://themebot.com/free-website-templates/smf-themes or http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/          (i don't work for them).
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« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2009, 01:44:07 PM »

I have looked at these before, might use one and see how it goes, really dont know yet, is it that important?
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« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2009, 01:57:04 PM »

Also when I click on the email link when someone has replied it goes to the top of the thread page, rather than straight to the new post which is rather frustrating. Not a serious problem but personally I would fix it.
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« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2009, 05:07:51 PM »

Spock - it does the right thing for me, what browser are you useing (i am using ie8)
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« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2009, 05:43:17 PM »

Yes I think this depends on your browser maybe. I would like to see some ideas of what you guys would like us to use as a template for the forum: colour, structure etc. Helpful if you could post links. I have looked through them all and I cant decide on one that I like Sad
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« Reply #7 on: August 20, 2009, 05:54:41 PM »

I will have a quick look now Gina Smiley ~ btw don't use a graphic / size heavy templates as they will slow the site down Smiley
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« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2009, 06:00:14 PM »

http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?lemma=1878 ~ simple / nice (free)
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« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2009, 06:49:21 PM »

Its ok but not compatible with my version of smf , I think version 2 is the beta version
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« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2009, 08:17:14 PM »

with Vbulliten there are lots of great templates, also with the amount of visitors you have you could probaly pay the cost of the lisense of with the adsense feature on vbullitin.
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« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2009, 08:22:29 PM »

I dont want to put ads on this site, and I never will Smiley
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« Reply #12 on: August 20, 2009, 08:29:30 PM »

great Smiley
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« Reply #13 on: August 20, 2009, 08:32:03 PM »

on the topic ~ a shorter domain (or redused domain may be easier to brand) btw ~ biao.biz is still available Smiley
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« Reply #14 on: August 20, 2009, 08:36:36 PM »

Nope we are indexed on Google so not changing the name
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« Reply #15 on: August 20, 2009, 08:38:35 PM »

301 redirects?
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« Reply #16 on: August 21, 2009, 09:59:12 AM »

I'm using safari on Mac but it works fine with all other forums!
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« Reply #17 on: August 21, 2009, 10:41:53 AM »

To be honest I cant find an answer to this. My link goes staight to the new post in the thread so it must be working ok for most people I would think. Anyone else having this problem?
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« Reply #18 on: August 21, 2009, 10:42:49 AM »

301 redirects?
I'm not changing the name of the forum Smiley
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« Reply #19 on: March 30, 2010, 10:51:56 AM »

Just out of interest, if we did change the name to a shorter one, how do 301 redirects actually work?
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« Reply #20 on: April 01, 2010, 12:35:36 PM »

Don't waste time on go faster stripes - content is everything
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