I've solved the prob with member by blocking his IP and deleting his account...

But your idea is something I'm going to think about for new members

Thanks!

Thanks Hypernod,

not really sure if this helps, but I suppose these are the only sollutions...

I don't think we'll unable the mail part, it's a community. Been looking if I can disable the adresses to be viewable to specific groups but that's not possible (maybe a new feature for the next XOOPS release?).

If no-one has got a better idea, I suppose we'll leave it like it is for the moment.

I've got a problem:
there's a huge suspicion towards a member of my site he's harvesting e-mailadresses of my site and is using them to spam.

Is there a way to hide these adresses and/or coding them in some way for future members?

Is it possible to add a red and green light in the forum?

Let me explain: the green light when a question/post is being answered and a red if not. The green light could go on when the 'reply'button is being activated by someone.

This works 2 ways:
1. the poster knows there's an answer coming
2. other posters know there's an answer coming and they can focus on some other post to answer.

I think implementing this as a basic feature, it would help a lot of ppl. More questions would be answered this way and it would be faster.

Yep, I worked it out!
Forgot to clone my new template, so couldn't edit. But worked out fine now!

To be honest (and let me explain this) I do not believe XOOPS is any match comparing to other CMS's.

Xoops is a very good CMS starter, it's basic, it's got what a basic CMS needs and it's a good CMS to let starters understand what a CMS does.
But if you compare XOOPS with for instance PostNuke it lacks a lot of things and there's a huge space to grow. More and better modules, a better grading system... I know some of these points are being tackled and I hope these will work out for the best.

I use XOOPS on several sites myself, mainly because of the easy way XOOPS works. That doesn't mean I adore Xoops, I see a lot of room for improvement. Never the less XOOPS is an ideal system for smaller sites, commercial and non-commercial.

Like I said I think XOOPS is the best CMS for starters and maybe that's a good focuspoint to market on. Make XOOPS the best userfriendly system for a starter, that'll maybe mean that to focus of growth doesn't look at minor developments of the excisting system (Xoops 2.1 may be a good ending in development) and start developing good and new modules. Looking at other systems, what's their strenght, what can be adopted to Xoops, why do users really want to use Xoops, what do they expect...

First point to make XOOPS better should be a survey. Asking users of XOOPS what they like and dislike, what they need and do not need, what they think should be developed and which way XOOPS should turn.

Don't be affraid of critics, they will show you the points you can improve on! Maybe it's an idea to open a special forum for critics. Don't let the Xoops-staff answer to those posts, just let the users argue. This way you'll get a better insight in the problems of XOOPS and directs to points of improvement.

BTW: Herko and Rowdie: what about the Q: 'is XOOPS good enough to be in the top?' That's a question ppl ask and maybe answer by saying 'No'. Like I said before there's room for improvement and maybe that improvement needs to be done before you can promote a really excellent and good product.
I think XOOPS is a good product for ppl who start with CMS, focus on that, there's a good base of users and developers. A good product will sell itself, like XOOPS does now, but give it time. Development and promotion go hand in hand.

But let me be the first to make and put a 'powered by Xoops' banner on my site, so you'll understand my good intentions.



(Do not leach this image, you can copy it for free!!)

This is my 5 cents...

To change the colors of your text you'll have to modify the style.css in your theme folder. In there you can change the complete look of your site including fonts, size, colors, backgrounds...

Be carefull though if you're new to this. Start by changing little thingsand look what effect they will have.

Always save the original style.css! So you can put it back.

Good luck!

I'm wrong!!! Forgive me!!!!

THX Rowdie
You've got it almost right! It's not in the news_block_top.html but it's in the news_block_new.html

But found it thx to you!
(maybe I'm using a diff. version though...)

I would like to turn of the dates in the recent news block. Someone can tell me how to do this?