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M-Saunders · Moderator Joined: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:14 pm Posts: 2883

Hi all,

At last, we've finally got the new website up and running! We've designed it to be cleaner and faster, getting rid of the PostNuke cruft that had built up over the years. We've been fine-tuning it over the last few days, but if anyone spots any glitches, please let us know!

Cheers,
Mike

Captain_Tux · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:03 pm Post subject:

I like it... I like the look, the feel... easier to navigate... neat & straight forward... nice job, guys!

RedWillow · LXF regular Joined: Thu May 29, 2008 2:05 pm Posts: 716

I see we still have Greenwich Mean Time, British Summer Time and Linux Format Time. Yer clock's fast! Wink

Yes, nice, clean design. Much tidier. But I can't find the link to the team blog from the home page. Or am I doing something wrong?

M-Saunders · Moderator Joined: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:14 pm Posts: 2883

The Blog is now the posts on the left-hand side of the front page -- that's where Team LXF will be posting stuff. But I'll also add a 'Blog' link at the top which shows our posts and lets you navigate through them.

M

bobthebob1234 · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:53 pm Post subject:

How do i get back to the homepage from the forums??

I like the look, but could you put the same design on the forum?
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Rhakios · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:55 pm Post subject:

I like it, nice and spartan. In fact it has something of the look of the old "lite" theme. Smile

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Rhakios · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:56 pm Post subject:

M-Saunders · Moderator Joined: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:14 pm Posts: 2883

Yep, I'll add the red menu bar that's on the main site to the forums too! However, wrapping the phpBB forums inside the Drupal engine of the main site might not be doable -- at least, not without a load of ugly hacks to the code, which naturally we'd rather avoid Smile

M

LeeNukes · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:31 pm Post subject:

Website is great, finally a forum on another page, if I'm honest the postnuke forum was what kept me away in the past. Always felt claustrophobic.

Good stuff guys
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lok1950 · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:27 pm Post subject:

Any reason you went with phpBB v2 instead of v3 i have found that version 3 much easier to administer.

Enjoy the Choice Smile

LeeNukes · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:14 am Post subject:

And the spamming starts. Oh dear Crying or Very sad

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lok1950 · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:25 am Post subject:

The other reason to upgrade to version 3 Laughing

Enjoy the Choice Smile

LeeNukes · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:50 am Post subject:

Yeah, I used version 2 some time ago, it was a right pain, so I closed my forum. Me thinks we need more moderators.
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Dutch_Master · LXF regular Joined: Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:49 am Posts: 2358

OK, so I clicked on my LXF forum link. And had to log-in again. Fine, new forum, new cookies. Explicitely checked the 'remember me' box and Iceape got confirmation to store this login for this site. Left to do other things (but left the 'new messages' page open in one of my tabs, as I always do) but when I came back (gone for ca 90 mins or so) I had to log in again... Evil or Very Mad

Ok, got to the cookie manager and selected all LXF.com cookies -> in the bin. Logged in again and typed this message...

roseway · LXF regular Joined: Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:27 pm Posts: 410

Much snappier. Now if only you could get rid of those irritating animated adverts... Mad

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