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05-25-2015, 01:18 PM
Hey, AD! Thanks for the comment, and I have good news for all. The front page was developed for several reasons:
- makes it easier to find stuff for people who have no clue about forum software (seems to be a large sector of web traffic)
- A SUPER fast page that people will see when they first come to the site. According to George, this will make or break a site, and our old blog page was extremely slow despite the optimization that we did. The would-have-been new site was EVEN SLOWER and became just one of the reasons I decided to go it alone.
No, the back end forum will not look like the drudge-type front page. The front page has it's specific utility as a fast, sleek front page, but most of the adept forum users have no need to ever go there. As you can tell, I made the forum look like the front page, and until we upgrade the mybb software, no one has to learn anything new about how this forum works EXCEPT:
Everyone should realize that our entire website is this forum package. ALL the old dreams are now located here as a sub-forum of the Public Dreams (and linked http://nationaldreamcenter.com/forum18/f...php?fid=49 ). Therefore, you can do all your searching here (except for all the old blogs, which I was unable to bring over.)
So, THIS IS IT! Take some time to go out into the forum index and see how it's changed. I'm basically trying to morph the old forum into a more traditional website (that was the main reason for the new header menu, by the way). Notice how you can't search anymore without pressing search ON THE NEW GRAY MENU BAR).
Bottom line: There are now ONLY TWO basic sections of the site: A single html front page that shows the summary of what's happening over here (the second part of the website). Only ONE login section now! Yoo hoo!
- makes it easier to find stuff for people who have no clue about forum software (seems to be a large sector of web traffic)
- A SUPER fast page that people will see when they first come to the site. According to George, this will make or break a site, and our old blog page was extremely slow despite the optimization that we did. The would-have-been new site was EVEN SLOWER and became just one of the reasons I decided to go it alone.
No, the back end forum will not look like the drudge-type front page. The front page has it's specific utility as a fast, sleek front page, but most of the adept forum users have no need to ever go there. As you can tell, I made the forum look like the front page, and until we upgrade the mybb software, no one has to learn anything new about how this forum works EXCEPT:
Everyone should realize that our entire website is this forum package. ALL the old dreams are now located here as a sub-forum of the Public Dreams (and linked http://nationaldreamcenter.com/forum18/f...php?fid=49 ). Therefore, you can do all your searching here (except for all the old blogs, which I was unable to bring over.)
So, THIS IS IT! Take some time to go out into the forum index and see how it's changed. I'm basically trying to morph the old forum into a more traditional website (that was the main reason for the new header menu, by the way). Notice how you can't search anymore without pressing search ON THE NEW GRAY MENU BAR).
Bottom line: There are now ONLY TWO basic sections of the site: A single html front page that shows the summary of what's happening over here (the second part of the website). Only ONE login section now! Yoo hoo!