Screenshots!

It’s been a month since our last post! We’re not dead. In fact, things are going quite well. Reid’s finally working 100% on the CSS, and things are looking really, really nice! What better way than to show off some screenshots?

First here is a screenshot of the front page. We got a lot information on this page. As you can see, we have the forum spy on the right, but also latest posts below the forum as well. You can expand or collapse any forum or category as you wish. You can’t see it here, but the subscriptions show updates to your favorite posts in the same manner as well!

As you can see from this screenshot, there’s more information on the bottom, displaying the top 3 posts by voting or by views. On the right is the topic listing page. You can see some of the cool things we’ve added here. There’s a search which isn’t working right now, but we’re on it! At the top is what I’d like to call the perennial sticky topics. Things like birthdays, the location project, or YouTube videos topic. That way, the stuff that’s normally there can be on the tabs and truly important stuff can be stickied! (You can also see that stickied topics are a little brighter and locked topics are darker.)

Onwards to the posts page! Here at the top, you can see what happens when you do an action. Successes are green and nasty errors are in red. It’s right there at the top of a page when you do something like vote on a topic. (I like to call it thumbing since it’s a thumbs up or thumbs down. :D) You can also see the big and fancy pages too! On the right is farther down the posts page. You can see special icons for some of things you might do, for example, thumbing up or quoting. As you can see some of them aren’t done, but Reid’s going to work on the rest of the icons tonight. Farther down is where you can make a reply, just type stuff in and you’re good to go! I’m debating whether or not stay with FCKEditor or use something like TinyMCE. Both have basic BBCode implementations I can hack to support full matocode, the problem is making things similar to the old ways and not messing up matocode in the WYSIWYG mode.

I’m sorry for not having a beta test sooner. We’re trying to work out all the basic bugs and get things to look similar to what it should be before we let you break things. ;) Keep your eye on the Fangamer blog for more new information!