GIVE ME SOME FEEDBACK ALREADY! :mad:

[PeOfEo]

I just made a new forum, Its not 100% complete but the important working parts are up. I still intend to make a profile system, an email system, and signitures/avitars. But besides those not being complete yet how do you think this is? Give me some comments / suggestions. (http://eurohost.webmatrixhosting.net/knights/frp/forum/forum.aspx)

[PeOfEo]

C'mon tell me what you think of my forum. http://eurohost.webmatrixhosting.net/knights/frp/forum/forum.aspx . Its still under construction but I am going to integrate my profile system soon, do a signiture / avitar thing and I am working on an our going email system, I already have an email system on another site that I will probably integrate. But besides that what are some other ideas for this? I will probably use this as a template on 2 other sites. Also what do you think of it?

[pyro]

I merged your two threads together. Please do not start multiple threads on the same topic.

[jeffmott]

What's different about it? If you're building it to work exactly like other forums then what is the point? What can it do better? Is it more efficient? Secure? Portable? Can we review your source code or are we judging the forum's quality by the generated HTML, which is invalid (and not everything renders correctly in NS7 or Opera7).

[havik]

Not bad, but your login iframe doesn't display the content fully in Opera 7.1

Havik

[khaki]

you need to test it more.

it doesn't display properly in N7 or Opera 6.02.

is this supposed to be a better mousetrap...
or a re-invention of the wheel?

either way... you haven't tested it enough to ask for an eval (yet).
(sorry... too honest? :rolleyes: )

;) k

[PeOfEo]

well I wanted to make my own just to say I did. Do you know any online opera or netscape viewers because I dont have eather of those. It displayed fine for me on mozilla. I know there are errors in the code but that was unavoidable I had to leave out soem "'s in some places when I was putting borders and <hr's> in on the secondary pages... But does it give you any runtime errors?

[PeOfEo]

Its not a reinvention of the wheel, because I have more freedom this way

[nkaisare]

- Black on green isnt the most readable color choice.
- Doesn't quote correctly.
- There will always be someone who will inadvertently forget the closing FRP code. Make provision for this mistake rather than "penalizing" the messages that follow.
- Why reinvent the wheel when a very nice forum is available from V-bulletin? It is customizable. What you are trying to do is to create a BB very similar of V-bulletin.

[PeOfEo]

I dont want a vbulitain though... Individuality... Also doing it myself works out a whole lot better because I already have a few data bases on my site that I am encorperating with this forum. I want it all to work together to be fluid and smooth. Also the quote problem I know why its doing that and I just need to get into my code sometime to fix that, its a replace statment error. But again what is wrong on opera browsers exactly? I need to know whats going wrong because I cannot exactly see that since I dont have opera. Where are the problmes at so that I can correct them, that why I posted this so I can see how it looks to other people to find my problems, and the black on green thing, those are just the colors on the rest of the site, but a different font might do a lot to help that, maybe something a bit bolder.

[nkaisare]

Download:
Opera: http://www.opera.com/download/
Netscape: http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp

[PeOfEo]

I just fixed 2 of the problems in the few seconds between the posts, like the ' problem and the <hr> problem and I got rid of the html errors I was genorating, but a few are a neccesary evil because I cannot think of a way to work around the valign=top problem without sacrafaficing a lot of my forums... whats the word I am looking for... Not beauty but... pizzas? Well you know what I mean. Thanks for the opera tip. I am on 56k right now lets see how long this is going to take me.

[PeOfEo]

by the way I did not mean to type pizza, I just cant spell the word I am looking for =)

[PeOfEo]

ewww, opera did some weird things there, and on all of the sites that i visited. It messes up borders, they dont look terrible and everything functions but it puts them there and well on things that I have the border="0" it will put a border there for the heck of it. But I see what you mean, its just my login form because it opens in an iframe. Well I will put it in a table cell then and ditch that Iframe. But also does ns7 do the same thing? I have not downloaded that yet... its 23 meg about so I only got the installer.

[khaki]

Originally posted by PeOfEo
by the way I did not mean to type pizza, I just cant spell the word I am looking for =) I'm going to guess that the word you are looking for is:

PIZZAZZ

(although now you got me thinking about pizza :eek: )

I don't know about N7... but N6 pretty much looks the same as the view from Opera (with the login section only showing an un-readable sliver that forces a scroll)

Good luck with your forum...
but it seems like a lot of work (better you than me :) )

;) k

[jeffmott]

Yes, NS7 does do the same thing. And there still is a lot to do if you plan on your markup being valid.

If I use the log in link at the top and then log in, I am taken to a page with absolutely no links. I'm left to play with the address bar to get back to the main forum.

When logged in, the Main link is broken wherever it appears.

After I register, how do I change my information? How do I log out? How do I delete my account?

The HTML special characters &, ", and ' are not changed to their entities.

And while everything so far addresses the generated HTML, none has yet to address the security, efficiency, or portability of the program, which is probably what may one day crash the program either from a melicious user or data processing demands that the program cannot handle.

[PeOfEo]

well, I am fixing the login iframe now, I am putting it in a table cell. But whoever said it does not look good on my forum hurt my feeling lol. I wanted opinions not insults lol. Its actually not as much work as you think it is though, because I mean I have most of the scripts on other pages and I can just copy and paste them and change paths and things. Its a lot of copying and pasting. I fixed the profanity though =) now you cannot cuss on the forum, well I have not gotten rid of every workd just the ones like that b word and that f word, I would say them but it would replace them with @#$%^ on this. Anyhow, opera does some weird junk... I like mozilla more but thats just me.

[jeffmott]

whoever said it does not look good on my forum hurt my feeling lol. I wanted opinions not insultsIt is an opinion and not an insult. Why does this come up every time someone asks for a review? If they're not told that everything is perfect, they assume they're being insulted.

[PeOfEo]

well it sounded like you were saying its ugly, but I dont partcularly care for the colors would sound better, just saying it does not look particularly good is not enough eather if you are going to say something like that elaborate give it some support so I can make it look particularly good. Anyways I fixed the login problem. It displays sorta like it should on opera even though opera does not read all of my css for some reason.

[PeOfEo]

hmmm.... never mind, I did that with vb. Looks like ill be going back and putting that in css.

[PeOfEo]

I can change those button colors in vb... but will opera read it? Also what about css, can you change a button face color in css? I have never seen it but I am assuming its possible so what would that look like?

[Kaisa]

Ok ok i will go look (Goes look) wow you did this yourself ?

[PeOfEo]

ys but its not finished yet... still s lot of work 2 do

[Kaisa]

I understand because you said you still need to and profile pictures and so on

[jeffmott]

even though opera does not read all of my css for some reasonAre you coding in actual CSS or browser specific proprietary coding?I can change those button colors in vb... but will opera read it?Are you refering to VBScript or actual VB? Because a server side language cannot actually change any colors. All it can do is output the HTML or CSS that defines the visual rendering.Also what about css, can you change a button face color in css?<input style="background-color: blue" type="submit">