The New Site Design

[DOCa Cola]

posted on November 9th, 2006, 3:45 pm

Last edited by DOCa Cola on November 9th, 2006, 3:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.

smf has an ipb converter, i already converted the forum content to smf. the problem is that the converter is written for an old version of smf. so i have to install the old version first, convert the stuff from ipb. then upgrade the smf to the newest version. it's a bit complicated. even more complicated as i want to install the joomla->smf bridge too and these database tables are of course not compatible with a non bridge version.
so it's quite problematic when i want to keep the old data as basicly i have to start again from the beginning more or less. but i will look into it.

posted on November 9th, 2006, 5:43 pm

QUOTE (-=B!G=-The Black Baron @ Nov 9 2006, 02:55 PM)
Bah Id rather have the old posts here. I mean we have come such a long way, its stupid to start all over again biggrin.gif

nonsense you just wanna keep your +2.000 post to show off how cool you are wink.gif
On Topic: Hmm i don't really mind if you kill all the posts (should be easier for you, since you don't need to migrate the mySQL data from one DB to the other;

The only thing i would request is, that you keep all the users+their profiles; i don't want to register at yet another forum Ty in advance

I dont actually care about my post count. What I dont want to do, however is debate ALL the ideas ALL over again

posted on November 9th, 2006, 6:37 pm

i think we should give you the task of getting to 3,000 posts before the site changes (n they cant be spam cos thats cheating lol)

posted on November 9th, 2006, 7:09 pm

LoL thats easy And I never spam!
BTW Doca how long till the site changes?

posted on November 9th, 2006, 7:14 pm

LoL thats easy And I never spam!
BTW Doca how long till the site changes?

no date, as the update is planned along with v3

posted on November 10th, 2006, 1:34 am

well, we could have a freash start yeah, but it makes the forums look more professional with lots and lots of posts, besides i know of more than 2 seperate sites that changed the forums (which were very well visited) and closed them down soon after, becuse people walked away.

posted on November 10th, 2006, 4:01 am

I wouldn't worry to much, atleast their IPB conversion script is complete, their one for PHPbb was not.

posted on November 12th, 2006, 8:44 pm

looks great man! i'd prefer if the current posts and topics could be kept as like baron said we've come a long way and discussed a lot of stuff that new members would like to read about etc

posted on November 13th, 2006, 4:36 pm

indeed, but if that's not possible, i look forward to seeing the new site and forum

posted on November 14th, 2006, 12:25 am

me too. its looking good guys

posted on November 14th, 2006, 5:40 pm

haza, after beating up an SMF rep I finally was able to duplicate what you did Doca although I am still at a loss as to how you did the smoothed edges

posted on December 6th, 2006, 10:05 pm

thats not sure yet, as we are moving to a new server too

does the web address will change also? or it remains still same
//www.fleetops.net/
http://forum.fleetops.net/
?

posted on December 7th, 2006, 10:43 pm

the address will be the same. no change there

posted on December 8th, 2006, 1:58 am

humm i noticed the site was down earler, this anything to do with the downtime or just a coincedink?

posted on December 8th, 2006, 4:12 am

The ISP had crashed for a day or 2 Thay are back up now.