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Topic: How about a portal?
Posted By: MadDog
Subject: How about a portal?
Date Posted: 28 December 2008 at 7:49pm
Is there any need for a portal system with wwf v9+ these days?

It seems most people are just using free hosted solutions these days. I have been trying to decide to make one or not.

I have gotten the "OK" from the big guy for a free version this time.


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Posted By: i2Paq
Date Posted: 30 December 2008 at 7:54am
A Free version would be great.
 
Especially as with the Free WWF I hope that it has all the features for a small community I need for now.
 
Anyway, thanks for your effort.


Posted By: Putz22
Date Posted: 30 December 2008 at 4:11pm
Your Right MadDog... as people are using alot more hosted Solutions these days... but if you got the ok from the Big guy then why not show off your skills and share it.. I think it would be a good addition


Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 30 December 2008 at 8:29pm
Originally posted by Putz22 Putz22 wrote:

why not show off your skills and share it..
You havent been around that long have you? LOL http://www.iportalx.net - www.iportalx.net


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Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 30 December 2008 at 9:24pm
Originally posted by i2Paq i2Paq wrote:

A Free version would be great.
 
Especially as with the Free WWF I hope that it has all the features for a small community I need for now.
 
Anyway, thanks for your effort.


What features would you be looking for?


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Posted By: MortiOli
Date Posted: 01 January 2009 at 4:19pm
To be honest, I've never been a fan of portals, as all they are to me is a way of showing forum information in a different layout than the forum itself...

However, it could be nice to have a portal which allows extra pages to be added, so it acts as a main website, with small bits of forum information to lure people to it.

Does that make sense at all??


Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 01 January 2009 at 7:20pm
Originally posted by MortiOli MortiOli wrote:

However, it could be nice to have a portal which allows extra pages to be added, so it acts as a main website, with small bits of forum information to lure people to it.


AKA a Content Management System.

That would be one of the main goals for the new portal.


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Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 02 January 2009 at 5:32am
I'm bored so i made up a small list of things that i want to add to the portal system.
  • Add multi-skin support (super easy)
  • Add multi-language support (i've done it in the past, its pretty easy to do)
  • AJAX many parts of the forum including:
    • Instant PM notifications
    • Buddy Came online notification
    • Instant Post Edits (no page refreshes)
    • Instant Quick Replies (no page refreshes)
    • Latest Forum Posts AJAX refresh
    • Shoutbox with a pop up User to User chat
    • AJAX Uploads in the Editor
  • Add a nice AJAX Image Gallery
  • Add a Content Management System for pages
  • Search Engine Friendly links
All of those features are very simple to do. I already have the scripts coded from other projects i have done so all i need to do is recode them to intergrade into WWF.

Also with what i have done so far ( http://www.madhosting.net - www.madhosting.net ) is using a new Core system i've been working on. All the custom things ive added (the design minus the WWF design) is completely HTML template driven and modular based. So its super easy and really nice because everything is a seperate module that is controlled by the core. Also most of the hard things are simplified to make it easier and faster to code addons.

Also, i did this http://www.iportalx.net/iportalx-2/default.html - design a few months ago that i might use for an extra skin. Its 100% CSS/XHTML Smile


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Posted By: numanme
Date Posted: 03 January 2009 at 8:12pm
love to have a portal but then i would love a Image Gallery


Posted By: i2Paq
Date Posted: 04 January 2009 at 12:37pm
Originally posted by MadDog MadDog wrote:

Originally posted by i2Paq i2Paq wrote:

A Free version would be great.
 
Especially as with the Free WWF I hope that it has all the features for a small community I need for now.
 
Anyway, thanks for your effort.


What features would you be looking for?
 
Well, you already answered my question I'll guess.
Not sure what would be in the free version?
 
News, CMS, Calendar would be the main thing "for free".
Maybe sell a Gallery and Download Manager as a Plug-in?


Posted By: MortiOli
Date Posted: 04 January 2009 at 3:38pm
Originally posted by i2Paq i2Paq wrote:

Well, you already answered my question I'll guess.
Not sure what would be in the free version?
 
News, CMS, Calendar would be the main thing "for free".
Maybe sell a Gallery and Download Manager as a Plug-in?

WWF comes with a Calendar, so maybe just extend that...so it pulls events from the forum etc.

I'd say definitely an image gallery!


Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 04 January 2009 at 6:44pm
The only thing that can not be in the portal in a "free" version is the stuff that is limited in WWF in the "free" version.

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