Re: 29/10/13: New forum style || Changelog of site/forum updates
Posted: 02 Nov 2013, 12:40
I couldn't tell you exactly what's changed, but suddenly the forums look extremely sexy.
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- Improved navigation looks (navigation is the horiz. bar at the top, menu is the sidebar)
- Fixed buttons
- Changed post buttons from images into regular buttons
- Fixed signature
- Fixed post body
- Improved list detail colors
- Added styling to 'panel' elements
- Added styling to index page 'stat blocks'
- fixed notifications
- fixed user CP
- fixed private messages
- USP responsive code: made site width switch gradually from 70% to 90% the smaller the resolution gets
- added Advanced BBCode Box
- styled ABBCode (spoiler & bars; will need new icons)
- improved looks of some forms (quick reply, UCP stuff)
- Re-adjusted dropdown & navigation styles (more gold)
- added migrations (can now implement mysql tables etc. using extension setup)
- implemented full list of permissions
- implemented permission strings (names, descriptions)
- added basic permission roles/group assignments to migration
- made first permission checks on review viewing
- added most services to helper class for lazy coding (will have to set up proper dependencies during final steps)
- Styled breadcrumbs
- Introduced breadcrumbs to review pages
- Added highlighting to targeted posts (linking to specific posts will now highlight the post)
- Implemented WebM bbcode (will need to merge into BBVideo later)
- added placeholder for IRC sidebar panel
- tidied up quicklinks
- tidied up navigation
- implemented basic review action buttons
- tidied up border images
- unified Cabin font looks across the board
- started work on UCP module
- Progress with User Control Panel. Stuff actually displays now, though nothing can be changed yet.
- New per-user settings: "fixed background image", "display scout-kun".
- Made reviews use the same template as articles, with conditional statements to decide what gets displayed
- Fixed "forum rules" CSS; going to experiment with forum rules on forums like Project Presentation (this sucked)
- Considerable progress on the article creation/edit page.
- Added basic support for article-based header images
- Upgraded to 3.1.0 beta4 from beta3.
- Edited forum index: Placeholder for "latest news", introductory paragraph for guests, re-ordered and re-styled link list. The forum index will be the new home page
- TREMENDOUS progress on review submission/editing.
- Fully finished form.
- Functioning preview.
- Most variables are prepared for entry into the database
- Almost functional! Will likely be finished today/tomorrow
- Fancy javascript courtesy of Wire updates the total scores and colors as you input them.
- Looks neat to boot!
- Changed Project Platforms to be based on the "tags" field; removed "platform" field. Multiple platform selection, yay!
- Changed most template links to use {ROOT_PATH}, just in case
- Cleaned up MySQL tables, assigned better indexes etc. Man, that was a mess.
- Generated BBCode UIDs for all article text.
- REVIEWS CAN BE EDITED!!!!! With the respective permissions, of course. Lots to clean up in that code.
- BBcode now functions in reviews.
- Fixed small style discrepancies caused by b4 update
- Small topic body style tweaks
- Improved panel class styling.
- Made more style elements depend on the panel class.
- Fixed alert pop-up boxes (such as subscribe topic, add friend etc.)
- Fixed viewtopic quickmod/jumpbox
- Introduced Font Awesome. This will be a thing for UnrealSP icons. That way I don't have to make so many images!
- Changed a LOT of buttons to use Font Awesome instead of phpBB icon images.
- Improved h1/h2/h3 etc. visuals
- Finished article submission
- Finished review submission
- Finished article editing
- Finished review editing
- Finished article (un)publishing
- Finished review (un)publishing
- Finished article (un)locking
- Finished review (un)locking
- Cleaned up menu code
- Implemented Recent additions menu item
- Finished article deletion
- Tweaked review display code to also display articles
- Various fixes around the submission form
- Unpublished articles now display an "awaiting approval" tag
- Implemented proper permissions for article actions
- Added USP ranks and smilies
- Implemented news.
- Implemented Latest News box on the index page.
- Added RSS feed for news posts
- Added RSS feed for recent additions
- Shifted search to navbar
- Boatload of HTML/CSS markup QoL changes
- Made some post elements absolutely positioned
- Made navbars absolutely positioned
- Moved article actions into article header
- Moved article information to linklist elements
- Fixed post title not being in the h3 element
- Improved preview postbody
- Improved signatures
- Improved signature preview
- Improved PM view
- Tags are now displayed for non-reviews
- View and comment counts are now displayed
- Fixed and improved article teasers; they now don't cut off in the middle of sentences.
ividyon wrote:...
Can you guess at which exciting new features are coming to UnrealSP.org? What are you looking forward to? What would you like to see?
- Improved navigation looks (navigation is the horiz. bar at the top, menu is the sidebar)
- Fixed buttons
- Changed post buttons from images into regular buttons
etc... etc ...
salsaSkaarj wrote:ividyon wrote:...
Can you guess at which exciting new features are coming to UnrealSP.org? What are you looking forward to? What would you like to see?
- Improved navigation looks (navigation is the horiz. bar at the top, menu is the sidebar)
- Fixed buttons
- Changed post buttons from images into regular buttons
etc... etc ...
WOW, what a list.
I'm not sure if you're planning to do all of this or whether you want a selection.
Just a word of warning phpBB 3.1 is in beta stages (version 4 IIRC) and changes are drastic. I've done a complete overhaul of a couple of phpbb2 forums to version 3 (including many modifications of my own), and am now slowly working on an update to V3.1 (just to be well prepared when it it released). Frankly ... it's a pain, specifically my own modifications.
So, if you are planning to run UnrealSp.org for many more years (and think you may decide to go for 3.1), then have a look at the changes in 3.1 to see what's compatible and what has to be redesigned to avoid problems later. Functionality is only one of the problems, layout, theme responsiveness is a pain in the *ss (to me).
ividyon wrote:That's a list of things I've already done. There's still a lot of vital features to go, but I've come a long way!
The new UnrealSP is built entirely from scratch, by me, on phpBB 3.1 and its new extension system. ...
Upgraded to 3.1.0 beta4 from beta3.