Forum & Skin Upgrade

[dane]

I have been in the process of upgrading and customising the current AHB skin. As far as I can see everything is pretty much done.

Can you please have a look at the Testing Site

and report any errors you see regarding the skin.

Feel free to post however this is an old database snapshot and all posts will be deleted anyway. I'm just sharing this link to make sure everything is working properly before I launch it live.

Hopefully it has a nicer feel and well take AHB to the next level.

Many of the new features haven't been added yet, but they are on their way.

Report any problems here....thanks.

BTW you *may* need to login with your details again....and you need to login to see some of the new stuff at the top...

Some of the new features....

RSS / XML feeds
Lo-Fi Version
Overall forum software easier to use
Weblinks section is being re-added (and will work this time)
New and improved chat system
Ability to have a designated front page with seperate content....

Gallery Upgrade, Online Store and Recipe DB are still in the pipeline.

Suggestions welcome!

Oh and the merchandise is happening...I PROMISE!

 

[dane]

Oh one other thing....the site has been setup for 1024x768 res....if you are running 800x600 (or god forbid 640x480) you will get scrollbars. In this day and age I think it is fair enough, but I will check some logs/stats and see how many people are still using 800x600.

I will probabaly just make a modified narrow skin that will work for 800x600 so everyone can just choose what they want.

 

[dicko]

Hi Dane,
The new skin wont let me log in.
Cheers

 

[dane]

Hi Dane,
The new skin wont let me log in.
Cheers

have you changed your password?

This is a pretty old database snapshot so if you have changed it the old DB will have the old password.

If you can't remember it just use :

test/test

 

[dicko]

Yes Dane I think I did change my password because I can't remember the old one.

test/test does not work either.

Cheers

 

[dane]

Yes Dane I think I did change my password because I can't remember the old one.

test/test does not work either.

Cheers

Hmm I just used

username: test
password: test

and it logged in ok.

 

[normell]

Yeah wont let me in either.
test,test lets me in, but not my normal login
PS would love "I will probabaly just make a modified narrow skin that will work for 800x600 so everyone can just choose what they want. "

 

[sluggerdog]

I got in before dane... Looking good!

 

[dicko]

Thanks Dane,

It must be the aluminium boil pot :lol: :lol:
I was using test/test in the password section.

Cheers

 

[dane]

Thanks Dane,

It must be the aluminium boil pot :lol: :lol:
I was using test/test in the password section.

Cheers

hahah good to hear you got in.

Yeah if you are a new member - last 3 months or so it wont have your account....as suggested above please just use:

test
test

if you are unable to get in and have a look.

Ok I will do a narrower skin once I have this one all sorted.

 

[berto]

The new site looks tops. Much sleeker feel to it. One thing, i always notice it, the calendAr link is called calendEr on both this and the new site.

Cheers, Rob

 

[dane]

The new site looks tops. Much sleeker feel to it. One thing, i always notice it, the calendAr link is called calendEr on both this and the new site.

Cheers, Rob

Thanks Berto..that would be my bad spelling. Fixed on the new site now. Wont bother fixing here as it is an image.

 

[Vlad the Pale Aler]

Just had a bit of a test ride and it all seems fine, even to a computer dunderklunten like me.

 

[Batz]

I had a bit of a look just now , very nice

Batz

 

[dane]

Ok i'm probably going to wait till it gets a litle bit quiet on here later on tonight and close posting down and then do the upgrade. Any issues I can sort out on the fly once the new forum/skin has been installed.

 

[big d]

so far so good dane.i will check it out more properly tomorrow before night shift.
btw im on 800 x 600 but can change as required.

cheers
big d
and well done once again dane.hope your finding some time to put down a few beers.if not we may have to piss off ya local posty and send you some beers from the ahb crew.

 

[dane]

I'm going to leave this until tommorow. I'll take the forums offline, so I can get a snapshort of the database, and the upgrade everything. Hopefully by tommorow night we should all be running smoothly on the new forum and skin.

Stay Tuned.

 

[crow]

new test skin looks good. Go for it !

 

[Snow]

It looks good, Dane. However I am on 800x 600......

- Snow

 

[dane]

It looks good, Dane. However I am on 800x 600......

- Snow

I'll make the switch over tonight some time and I will also make a 800x600 version of the new skin.