I have to agree with all of this. We do very little advertising, so when we get new clients, they are almost all word-of-mouth and we have a good relationship from the very first moment. Therefore, I'm able to take the time to explain that anything they don't like I can take out, but I still get a lot of resistance to "cutsie" stuff (the phrase I tend to hear instead of "geeky" stuff, but I think the sentiment is the same). The five things I hear constantly that clients don't want are comments, number of hits/reads, voting/rating, the name of the poster (for news, links, etc.), and smilies. Of course, part of what I am getting paid to do is customize these things to give the clients what they want, but as someone else said, this creates problems when it comes time to upgrade.

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Yeah, I'm aware of that. What I'm looking for is something a bit more seamless so that it just looks like it's part of the menu and so that it will still be somewhat dynamic. (I'm doing the initial setup and then handing it off to an organization that has no real expertise in this area; they just wanted a system that allows them to update news and such on their own without propiertary software.)

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Okay..how do I do that? :)

Actually, I know there's a post around here somewhere on how to accomplish that. A better solution would be to find a way to make the submenus for this module always present, instead of just appearing when the module's main button is hit. Any clues?

I am in need of a small hack for WF-Channels that should be easy to do, but I can't seem to figure it out. What I'd like to do is have all of the submenus from that module show up in the Main Menu at all times, and not just when the module is selected. They don't have to show up as sub-menus, and I would almost prefer it if they showed up as regular menu items.

Anyone got a simple solution to this?

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I'll give that a try! Thanks!

Excellent! Thanks!

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Right....but I'm not sure how to get the files from my hard drive back into the database; PHPmySQL doesn't seem to have an upload function. (Like I said, just enough knowledge to screw things up.)

A while back, there was a "backup" module that the webmaster could use to automatically download a backup of the mySQL tables from inside XOOPS. I can't seem to find it anywhere now.

Anyone know where I can get it?

The way I've done it is just to hard-code the theme.htm file with the URL's. The drawback is that the menu doesn't automatically update if you change modules.

Well, I think everyone knows these, but just to that it's official that someone said it... :)

Most of these fall under core/theme development:

1. Automatic login
2. Ability to customize the personal information collected (i.e., to rename the ICQ, AOL, etc. fields)
3. A "mark all read" button for newBB
4. Ability to associate polls and newBB discussions
5. Ability to permit registered users to make anonymous posts on a thread- or category-level in newBB
6. A way to have front-page blocks only appear on the front page if a module is selected as the start module (in other words, if News is the start module, clicking on HOME would show the front-page blocks and the News info, but clicking on NEWS would only show the News info)
7. Bring back the theme manager from 2.0 beta! That was awesome.
8. Group-level access (I think someone said this is already done)
9. A way to upload multiple smilies, avatars, etc.

For documentation, it would be great to have a "XOOPS for Dummies" aimed at not the person putting together the site, but the person who will end up managing it once it's done that would cover basic tasks almost in an FAQ sort of way. (
How do I edit a user?" or "How do I change where a block appears?") It would also be a good thing to create a template that module developers could be encouraged to use in creating documentation. This would help XOOPS become a lot more user friendly.