Website Updates

[[TLB]Sinister]

13 May 04

Tweaked the footer of the Fusion (site default) style to include a link to the forum home. Took off some redundant copyright info. Need to do this for the rest of the styles.

Back by popular demand are the smilies from the original TLB website.

**edit** Had to remove a bunch of the smilies so I could get the order of the first 30 (most used) right. I'll add the others soon.

Added a little hack that will display a birthday cake in the postbit next to your username on your birthday, as entered in your user profile. Currently works only with the Fusion style.

Installed a neat hack that will prod newly registered users of the website to make an intro post in the Introduction forum. If they have 0 zero posts and visit the forums, the title of the Intro forum reads: Recruiting & Introductions - Username, please introduce yourself here! (username is replace with their actual username).

[[TLB]Sinister]

Just wanted to let you guys know that any member of TLB can post news articles and surveys for inclusion on the frontpage of the website.

All you do is make a new thread to either the News or Polls forum, and it will automatically be posted to the frontpage as well. You format it just like any other thread, including images linked from other websites with tags.

When posting news articles, be sure to select the Topic that your article best fits under.

Just keep it professional and be sure to credit sources where appropriate. Also, please do not use signature graphics in your articles.

I want all members to be able to submit these things so that we keep a fresh rotation of news items on the homepage. If it becomes abused we'll have to do something else.

[[TLB]Sinister]

14 May 04

All of the smilies are now available again.

Added "Today's Events" block to homepage.

[[TLB]Sinister]

18 May 04

All of you bftrack'ers will be happy to know I turned dynamic linking on for attached images in signatures, so now your stat sigs will work again. Now if someone will send me the link to set one up for myself....(nevermind...thanks Pepper)

[[TLB]Sinister]

18 May 04

Bravo Company link added to homepage.....finally. Sorry it took so long you guys.

[[TLB]Sinister]

19 May 04

New header logo for the Ambience style.

[[TLB]Sinister]

19 May 2004

Added a bunch of navigation buttons to the top, just under the header. These are currently exclusive to the AMBIENCE style.

Home, Forums, Register, PM Inbox, User / CP, Calendar, Roster, Teamspeak, Game Servers, IRC Chat, Search, FAQ, Bravo Ops

The Roster button doesn't quite work right yet. It currently brings up the default list of registered users, but I'm hoping to get it to do an advanced search and automatically show only TLB members when you click the link.

The Teamspeak button opens a new window with a brand new status/channel monitor. This one will be way more functional than the current one that is on the homepage (that one will go away soon). We can even easily list TS servers on there for other clans who have their own private or public server.

The Game Servers button isn't active yet, but it will be another popup type window that lists the game server status monitors and will replace the current one on the homepage. The one that we have now takes a long time to load and thus slows down the refresh time on the homepage.

The IRC Chat button will launch you directly into our #thelazybastards IRC channel, provided you have mIRC or other client installed.

All of the others work and are pretty much self-explanatory. I'm going to be working to get all of those buttons working for the other styles, but for now they are exclusive to the AMBIENCE style.

[[TLB]Sinister]

27 May 2004

Fixed the black boxes on the homepage of the tren_z style. Also added a header logo for that style....

http://clan-tlb.com/forums/themes/tren_z/tren_z_header.jpg

This is basically the way all the rest are going to look, except they will have their own background image (the one that came with the style).

More changes to this one coming soon.

[[TLB]Sinister]

31 May

For the tren_z style:

1. Shrunk down the text size in the main header ($1 to ValinHawk).
2. Got some link buttons up just below the main header. They all work.
3. Redid the game server status block on the homepage. Now it only shows the status of ALB #2 directly on the page. If you click the Status button, a popup will appear with the status blocks for all 5 servers, with additional buttons for details of each. This is available thru the Gameservers button at the top of the site as well.
4. Teamspeak button brings up new page with detailed information about the channels and who is in them. It's supposed to let you connect thru the website but I can't seem to get that to work yet. I left the Teamspeak who's online block on the homepage, since removing 4 of the game server status blocks seems to have sped up page load alot.

Still need to fix the quote text height in the forums for this style, but it's fast becoming my choice for site default. We'll have a poll to decide that once they're all done.

[[TLB]Milito]

It looks really good Sin, great job!