Forum Activity for @john-bizley

Some funky things happening on cloned skins when styling

Design and Skin Customization


Thanks for the info Brian, will check it out although I will change to a new skin first as I have done lot's in my current skin css files as ignored the style editor altogether due to the previous odd happenings.

Will report back when had chance to check it out

Some Videos Playback in Playlists only 1 Minute?

Using Jamroom


Hi Ken, if you are going to allow the full length playing but they are still for sale instead of for sale how about saying something like 'donate & download video', maybe sounds a little friendlier. For Sale often refers to something of physical value and so encourages those dis-honest folks to get it without paying, like a sort of challenge but donation encourages people to think of helping and so would be more willing to pay for it.

As you say though as long as it gets the good word out then the more that have it the better by which ever means the receive it

Suggestion and Also how to make the first forum post highlighted and sticky

Design and Skin Customization


Thanks Brian, still lots to do but just doing a little here and there as time permits. 99% of what I have done is just within the CSS templates not the module ones but once I get into it more I am sure I will work on those to.

By the way here is just the small bit of css I used for that forum highlight change

div.col12.last .item:first-of-type .forum_post_text > p{ font-size:14px!important }

div.col12.last .item:first-of-type .forum_post_text{ background:#ECE9E9!important; border-radius:6px; box-shadow:2px 4px 6px gray; border:solid 2px;}

div.col12.last .item:first-of-type .forum_post_text:before{content:"Main Topic For Discussion"; display:block; padding:6px;font-size:14px;background: rgba(0,0,0,0.4);color:white;box-shadow:1px 4px 6px gray; border-radius:4px;margin-bottom:10px }

And this is for the blog one

.blogpost:first-of-type { background:#ECE6E6!important;border:solid 2px; margin-bottom:12px}

And this for the comment replies highlight

.comment_page_section .comment-level-0 .container{ background:#FFFFFF!important }

.comment_page_section .container{ background:#F2EDED!important}

All this was just added to the list.css template.

Jamroom Hosting - looking for a few beta testers

Jamroom Hosting


You can just keep that domain on Arvix and point it to the new Jamroom hosting, as the deal on arvix was two years your domain should be safe there as you have already paid Arvix for the two year period. Once the contract comes to an end you will then be able to buy the domain outright via a new host once it becomes available after the closure of the account, normally about 14-21 days. In the mean time you could buy other domains with you new domain provider. So if you have .com on Arvix you could buy the .net .us etc so you then have these safe.

If you do buy these you could use one of them for your new Jamroom hosting like .net or .us etc so your site may be something like this http://mysite.net, then in Arvix just change the domain to forward to your main site domain so if someone typed in http://mysite.com it would then redirect to your .net url. Seeing as Arvix just has the one domain you may as well buy up all the others somewhere else so you have them. Once you can re-buy your domain .com it would just be a matter of changing over the settings from .net to .com then have the .net one forward to the new .com url.

Suggestion and Also how to make the first forum post highlighted and sticky

Design and Skin Customization

I just added a this technique to my blog post to which looks nice. Also added some colour to the comments replies so these stand out a little better too.

Here is a link to a blog post with some test comments added to it also, this comments reply highlight has been added to work all around the site.

http://1940snetwork.com/founder/blog/3/general-stab-at-the-victory-show

Shrunken Videos Surrounded by Blackness

Using Jamroom


Hi Ken, I would think this could be done but if the videos are small and low res would not making them bigger make them nearly un-watchable. It would be a bit like making a tiny res image bigger which in turn make's it all blurry. Maybe it would help the look if the black surrounding it could be changed to something less dramatic like a soft grey.

Images on profile tabs - is it possible?

Design and Skin Customization


I would think this would be possible and could be done purely in css. I will have a play around and see what I can come up with.

Question about timeline mentions link going back to a list type page ?

Design and Skin Customization

Was not sure how to title this one but here is the question.

When you go to a profile in the Ningja skin it will show lists of the latest goings on which is ok. If you then click on timeline we get the activity feed and the activity feed update box, there is a 'mentions' link by the search link and when clicked on it takes you back to that list type screen, is this correct or should it be showing something else ?
updated by @john-bizley: 03/28/15 05:32:20PM

Suggestion and Also how to make the first forum post highlighted and sticky

Design and Skin Customization

I have done this in a fashion but would like to make this better. So when you go to a forum category then choose a forum within it you have the discussions as we do here which is fine but if lots of posts have been added the original forum topic get's a little lost. I know it's always the first post at the top of the list but this I think should stand out against all the replies. Also it would be nice if this had an option to be made 'sticky' or not so when scrolling down through the replies you can allways see what the original post was about.

So what I have now is by changing the background and adding some border etc around the text section of the first forum post which looks ok but would be much nicer to have the whole item row like that.

So to see what I am on about here is a link to the forum discussion so you can see the higlighted first post

http://1940snetwork.com/founder/forum/getting-started/1/test-forum-post

Added an image also to show.

updated by @john-bizley: 03/18/15 03:03:35AM

Jamroom Hosting - looking for a few beta testers

Jamroom Hosting

I have a question about 'Jamroom' domains, are you reffering to having your site name then jamroom.net after it so for instance if I want 1940snetwork it would be 1940snetwork.jamroom.net? . What if you have registered domains somewhere else and would like to use them instead, can these be used and if so would the same deal be given for adding as many modules etc as you wish ?

The last question is what if you just wanted to start fresh on the new server and not transfer, in my instance from Arvix, so would that mean just creating a new Jamroom account on there ?

I was just going to start looking around for a new host when this popped up in the forum so that saves a lot of messing about, I would probably be looking to use the 4 CPU option.