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Stewdio
Re: absolute newbie to this
  • 2003/12/5 18:42

  • Stewdio

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Welcome to the group. It's good to see fresh faces that can bring new questions and idea to the table.

I'll list a couple of my sites for you here so you can see more. I have others, but they are non-production sites for testing purposes. They're not as robust as those listed by Herko, but it will show you the different things you can achieve.

StewdioNet is my first XOOPS installation. It's not quite like other XOOPS sites because it's meant for my own personal thing(s) and registration is by invitation or request only for people that are into the same thing as me. It's rather simple and straight forward with autoupdating news to keep it looking fresh.

FamilyNet is one of my latest installations and is going to be quite different then my main. Firstly, it's a gift to the family for christmas, so it's largely unfinished with duplicate modules for testing reasons, empty forums and other areas. Ultimately, this site will be like other XOOPS sites, in that it's users will be the ones who create the content by uploading pictures and participating in the forums and other such things that I plan on doing.

The difference between the first site and second respectively, is tha the first is more or less static where only me and a couple of others add things once in a while. In all honesty, it's not much of a site.

The second site is community driven, aimed at getting the members to invite other people to participate making the site grow all by itself with little need for me to intervene with the exception of administrative tasks and updates.

As you can tell from these two examples, you can customise the look, feel and functionality of your site with some planning and little experience. The more you work with Xoops, the more you learn and understand the many things it can do.

Xoops is most likely the easiest system I have used to date, and I have tried most of them out there. Every new update or addition to any of my sites reveals something new to learn and the rewards to these challenges have been nothing short of pure pleasure.

Don't worry if your not familiar with PHP, SQL, Smarty Templates and all the rest. In no time at all, through working with the system, you will get a stronger feel for how things work and ultimately learn these powerful tools and languages. You will find that by comparison, XOOPS is one of the easiest, most modular system to date. (Although I'm a bit biased by now )

Welcome aboard and Happy Xoops'ing!

Cheers!


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Tip: Remember, keeping it simple and clean will make your visitors stay longer and come back for more. Making changes to your site will be more noticeable if you follow these two simple rules.



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Stewdio
Re: Agenda-X 2.0 wish list
  • 2003/12/5 18:06

  • Stewdio

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Quote:

wjue wrote:
Quote:

Stewdio wrote:
Clickable dates in the Mincal.



Do you mean ALL DATES clickable ?

Currently dates with at leased 1 event are clickable


wjue


Yes sir I do. This just means that if a user selects an empty date, they can just add another event if they so choose. Not a big wish, just another way for users to interact. Maybe have a line on the top stating that this date has no entry, would you like to add one? etc etc...



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Stewdio
Re: WF-Sections Problem (Catzwolf?)
  • 2003/12/5 6:12

  • Stewdio

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[size=x-small]Quote:

vB3Dev wrote:
Ok, I just dumped this piece of crap module!

Don't bother offering helpmwith it now. I will simply use the regular sections and the news modules to do half of what I need but at least they work properly.

Oh, and Catzwolf, if it takes 3 months to fix a minor bug in a module, don't release any more.

Max
[/size]

Ouch, that really hurts. Catz has been a strong force for XOOPS and this kind of talk is upsetting. Ifyou are not happy with something that's fine, but can you please try to refrain from your slanderous diatribe to a respected member of our community?

Your rude behaviour is starting to upset every member of this community, please be more constructive.



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Stewdio
Re: Unable to Change Themes
  • 2003/12/5 5:05

  • Stewdio

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What you can do is select the themes you would like them to choose from (ctrl+click for more then one). I've never enable user selection, so I don't know how or where it shows in the user profile, but one other option I have seen used is to use the themes block to display them on the side of your page.



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Stewdio
Re: Unable to Change Themes
  • 2003/12/5 4:53

  • Stewdio

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If you have it turned off, you will have to go into your templates through the admin panel and update the file manualy. If you have it on, it updates by itself, and your changes will show.



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Stewdio
Re: Can i alter weighting of banner displays??
  • 2003/12/5 4:44

  • Stewdio

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I don't think it's possible to do what your asking, but it would be nice to place priority on certain ads.



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Stewdio
Re: Xoops Support
  • 2003/12/5 4:41

  • Stewdio

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No need to get angry.




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Stewdio
Re: Agenda-X 2.0 wish list
  • 2003/12/4 19:51

  • Stewdio

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Clickable dates in the Mincal.

Option to have no image displayed on top of Minical.


Great job so far, keep up the great work!

Cheers



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Stewdio
Re: Trouble with xoops
  • 2003/12/4 19:48

  • Stewdio

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Quote:

ManXP wrote:
Yeah, it's everything OK now, i contacted my host provider and they reinstalled PHP. But after this i know one new thing - XOOPS isn't safe CMS. Yes, i mean very unsafe. Because my website was closed just for several minutes, but people already "hacked" my SQL base, they just copied a few files from my XOOPS site and they know SQL Base password now. When they know SQL password, they can browse tables and to view all users information, such as login and password. What can i do now? These people aren't "black hats", but it took just few minutes to get all my password from XOOPS.


Create a new user/pass and DB for that user (you), then reinstall xoops. Be sure to delete the proper files and chmod correctly. This should not have happened under a correct configuration.

If you want to keep your news items and such, be sure to backup and download the appropriate tables from your database so that you can reinsert them after your new installation.

Just my two cents.



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Stewdio
Re: Xoops 2.1 Module development Roadmap
  • 2003/12/4 19:13

  • Stewdio

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  • Since: 2003/5/7 1


Ok, I think I thought of something I would like to see. If this is a duplicate request, my appologies in advance, but I don't think I've seen it in this post.

Would it possible to have a pre-made "How To" section for users of the site. To understand more of what I am talking about, you can see what I mean by looking at phpbb2's How To areas that come standard with installation.

The more complex our systems get, the more our users (read site visitors) are going to want and need to now how to use a certain area of the site. I could create the How To myself, but being just one person and only using parts of XOOPS I need, I would invariably overlook some areas. If the development team were to create this for each of there supported modules, it would save us (or me) painstaking time and effort. Essentially, just covering the core modules that come with a standard distribution.

Naturally, if I were to add other interactive modules for my users from third parties, I would have to create my own how-to's and not expect mod developers to include this sort of material on their own. So my next addition to this module would be, or need however the case me be read, to have an option for the site administrator to add their own how-to's for anything they need, with the ability to modify and delete any of the entries that would come standard with the XOOPS installation.

Sorry if I'm not making myself clear, sometimes I tend to talk in circles




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