Thoughts Of You - a Dennis Wilson forum & fanzine
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Forum updates - Thoughts Of You (Jenna) - 19-01-2019

I've done a little bit of promotion of the contest & this forum on facebook & other forums that allow promos, hopefully we'll get some new members.

(Need to post about it on tumblr & twitter too)

Been looking at some free themes & some of the paid themes at MyBB themes club, need to start trying them (eta: free themes) out.

Been working on some new header/banner graphics - here's one for sigs.
What do you think?
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RE: Forum updates - Thoughts Of You (Jenna) - 20-01-2019

Tweaking permissions, accidentally left the secret testing forum visible to guests *oops*


RE: Forum updates - Thoughts Of You (Jenna) - 20-01-2019

Changed my sig, the banner looked too large with the links on here.

Working on a new header
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And here's a tiny ad banner
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RE: Forum updates - Thoughts Of You (Jenna) - 20-01-2019

(20-01-2019, 05:33 PM)Thoughts Of You (Jenna) Wrote: <snipped>
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<snipped>

Somebody looked over my shoulder at this banner and asked me 'Is that a Beach Boy, or is it Jesus...looks like Jesus to me'  Big Grin rofl
(I think it's the beard). - eta: and they weren't being sarcastic neither.


RE: Forum updates - Thoughts Of You (Jenna) - 20-01-2019

Just been posting about this forum & the contest over on tumblr.
https://denniswilsonzine.tumblr.com/post/182172091017/thoughts-of-you-fanzine-now-has-a-forum

https://denniswilsonzine.tumblr.com/post/182172651982/thoughts-of-you-forum-posting-competition-win

To do: I need more smileys/emojis.


RE: Forum updates - Thoughts Of You (Jenna) - 20-01-2019

That registration captcha is really annoying, going to change that to something better.

eta (was a separate post): Signed up to google's recapcha & changed the capcha to one of those are you a human tick boxes, and changed the security questions to something more Dennis connected.
Accidentally moved some members to the wrong user group while trying things out *oops* Rolleyes , so corrected that.

Can I merge posts? eta2: Yes I can.


RE: Forum updates - Thoughts Of You (Jenna) - 21-01-2019

testing, testing.


test: just seeing what the other merge option looks like.

eta: nice line.
More lines from the horizontal rule button. (right there next to the insert a picture & email buttons)








Anyone know what the point of the MY My smiley or the brick/castle [Image: brick.png] thread/post icon is ?

eta2: Stopped showing members browsing threads & forums and turned on related threads - it now shows links to possibly similar threads at the bottom of the page.

Must stop fiddling with the forum.
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RE: Forum updates - Thoughts Of You (Jenna) - 21-01-2019

Site just went wobbly & gave a connection error and wouldn't let me edit or post but it's ok now. Hope it wasn't a temp outage. No problems mentioned on my host Hostpresto's site.

eta3: have turned off the new member referral links because there's no point to it here,  and removed the ICQ (does that even still exist?) / Hangouts / Yahoo & Skype ids fields from your profiles.


RE: Forum updates - Thoughts Of You (Jenna) - 22-01-2019

Turned off thread ratings, because it's not really necessary and you can't change your rating if a thread gets good or goes bad later.


RE: Forum updates - Thoughts Of You (Jenna) - 28-01-2019

Done a bit of rearranging & moved the Forum Updates section to the top of the forum. (been reading old reviews on Forum Promotion and that's a regular piece of advice over there). Also moved the introductions thread there (come & introduce yourself and say hello to other members if you want) and changed the description to be more friendly. 

I've also added a Sold prefix for the For Sale/Wanted sub forum.

Been looking at other forums and themes again for ideas - getting a real ugh feeling looking at the default theme on the index.
Going to change that asap.