this is going to be a loooong post...

After I was out sick for over a week, there was much that fell behind.  Needless to say, between my being ill, and another of the mods having to replace her computer, there is much that is backlogged.  As a result this post will detail several upcoming things, as well as general status of some things.

Disclaimers ( Read more... )

It is SO much easier than it used to be.  Now all I gotta do is make sure all the images are there, edit the css the way I want it to look, and it's DONE.

UGH.  Damn thing wouldn't go away.  I finally MANUALLY removed ALL fields from my db, but was left with a menu entry in my forum.  Killed it in the ACP, killed it everywhere else.  Turns out that the damn function call for the menu was actually in TOPIC view of ALL places.  Anyway, it's no longer there.  So now I can actually SKIN the thing.

The upgrade took a BIT longer than I wanted to.  Had some weird glitches in the process, and had to have an Invisionboard tech finish it up.  Once that was done, got to the adding modifications part ( Read more... )

Oh yeah, making definite progress there.

These are the sections completed.

Anime sub section

Anime 2 subsection

Bleach

Final Fantasy (all)

UGH.  KNEW it was gonna be a booger to convert from 2.x to 3.x of phpBB.  I went through contortions to get the thing done with a populated board.  Took a bit over 9 hours altogether to get just the conversion of the database done.  From there, there are updates you have to do in the admin panel (all for the search function), or the search engine ( Read more... )

Got called into work tonight.  URRRRGH.  AFTER working 56 hours, so..we'll see when my next days off are supposed to be.  blech.

• Upgraded my restructure forum from RC7 to 3.0 final (phpBB3)
• am upgrading another forum from 2.x to 3.x of phpBB (that is going to be a booger)
• installed the SMF forum for skin development purposes for it
• have COMPLETED ( Read more... )

1. First, have to refresh my memory on how to skin an SMF forum for a friend of mine.  It shouldn't be that bad, as I remember.  Even tho it's been a couple years since I messed with one.
2. Learn the new ins and outs of skinning the IPB for the latest version.  Gotta update my default Sea Lords forum skin so it works instead of doing that weird all in ( Read more... )

Well, thing is with a relational database program (which is what a forum/discussion board IS), one of the ways one makes it so works in a less bloated fashion, and thus more efficiently, is to do nested structures in the program ( Read more... )

I decided to quit looking through all that, and just keep prepping the forum for the upgrade.  Getting as much done now and out of the way before we do it.  INCLUDING testing all modifications I need to add to it..  That's something I've always done, thoroughly tested things out before I actually DID them.  I've already tested just how the forum ( Read more... )