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Popup forum window is annoying

Postby BryceI » Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:55 am

If there's any way to get rid of the pop-up window for the forums, do it, I say.
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Postby Ken Jennings » Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:28 am

Yeah, I'm annoyed by it too. And I wrote it! The problem, obviously, is there no room for my left-nav in any phpBB template I've looked at lately, so if the Message Boards link took you directly to the phpBB main page, you'd lose all nav. Which would also be annoying. Any suggestions?
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Postby BryceI » Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:57 am

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Postby BryceI » Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:46 am

Here's how it looks on a default install of phpbb:

http://www.theinouyes.org/forum/

Took about 3 minutes.
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Postby Ken Jennings » Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:17 am

BryceI wrote:Here's how it looks on a default install of phpbb:

http://www.theinouyes.org/forum/

Took about 3 minutes.


I know I could probably drop in some left-nav of my own design without any trouble, but I don't know if I like the idea of the site navigation suddenly changing on just one page. When I tried to put the phpBB screens inside the content area of www.ken-jennings.com/messageboards.html, I found that they wouldn't go down that narrow. Just too much columnar data on some of the screens.

I'll keep thinking about it.
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Postby BryceI » Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:35 pm

could we at least get navigation back to the homepage somewhere?
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Postby harpua » Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:21 pm

here, here. i'm with bryce. i had encountered the same question--how to navigate from the message boards back to the rest of the brain.

ps: bryce inouye? hey, i remember you from the yorktown stake growing up. i sometimes try to keep from being super googleable, but i'm bill /3en@c, which i think you can read. my sister mary may also be familiar. also, a few months ago i had lunch in tokyo with josh porter, who is married to kara of course.
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Postby BryceI » Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:32 am

harpua wrote:here, here. i'm with bryce. i had encountered the same question--how to navigate from the message boards back to the rest of the brain.

ps: bryce inouye? hey, i remember you from the yorktown stake growing up. i sometimes try to keep from being super googleable, but i'm bill /3en@c, which i think you can read. my sister mary may also be familiar. also, a few months ago i had lunch in tokyo with josh porter, who is married to kara of course.


Hi, Bill. Funny who you bump into online.
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Postby Ken Jennings » Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:52 am

BryceI wrote:could we at least get navigation back to the homepage somewhere?


Done: first link under the top banner. But I'm still looking for a nicer way to integrate the message boards to the main site.

Hey, Bill and Bryce, I didn't know you knew each other. Er, sorry to use your name, Bill. I mean |3 1 L L. Better adjust your tinfoil hat before Google spots you. :)
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Postby BryceI » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:47 am

Ken Jennings wrote:
BryceI wrote:could we at least get navigation back to the homepage somewhere?


Done: first link under the top banner. But I'm still looking for a nicer way to integrate the message boards to the main site.

Hey, Bill and Bryce, I didn't know you knew each other. Er, sorry to use your name, Bill. I mean |3 1 L L. Better adjust your tinfoil hat before Google spots you. :)


Why not something like this
http://www.theinouyes.org/forum/index.php
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Postby harpua » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:54 am

Ken Jennings wrote:Er, sorry to use your name, Bill. I mean |3 1 L L. Better adjust your tinfoil hat before Google spots you. :)


It's not so much that I fear Google spotting me as I fear people associating me too strongly with smart people. That's way outside my comfort zone, and I want to maintain a consistent image.
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Postby Ken Jennings » Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:02 pm

BryceI wrote:Why not something like this
http://www.theinouyes.org/forum/index.php


Actually, that's not bad. I think that convinces me that I should try to mimic the left-menu within a phpBB template, the way you've done, even if it doesn't exactly duplicate the layout of the rest of the site.

Also, maybe I should redesign the menu so the message boards are in the "blue" area of the brain, since that's the color of the default template.
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