Some postseason house cleaning

[ziggy]

Normally I do most of the significant website changes during the month or so between the end of the regular season and the NBA draft lottery.

I plan on making a few changes following this season also, but it won't be nearly as dramatic as last season (you won't have to deal with re-registering, resetting passwords or any of that craziness). The forum will remain relatively unchanged, outside of some tinkering with the colors. I'd like to darken up the blue a little bit to match the Bobcats' uniform colors. I plan for the biggest change to be to the front page. I'm planning on switching that from the Joomla CMS to Wordpress. I've been experimenting with Wordpress over the last couple of months, and it will allow other bloggers to contribute much, much easier than the setup that I have with Joomla.

I think I may ask Alex or one of the other graphical phenoms to create another logo or two for me for the front page. His current logos are fantastic, but half of the people in them got traded away.:biggrin:

If you guys have any thoughts on changes that you would like to see me make following the season, let me know in this thread.

[teej]

Wordpress FTW, I use it for the blog I do for my church, much better than what I see from joomla.

You already know the other one I pm'd you about

And changing the pics on the homepage to the current roster would be cool, AmMo's commie stache greeting me is a turnoff...and could be as well to newbies.

Maybe an established setting on game threads, some are set up the day before, and I set one up ten minutes before game time the other day, and the naming for them is way off, just an OCD thing on my part.

Also, I have no clue if there are any other Bobcats boards out there but if there are maybe you could contact them about joining us? Once again I have no clue.

And lastly, could we see about getting a media pass for the BCP Radio? Or at least figure out what it would take?

[ziggy]

Wordpress FTW, I use it for the blog I do for my church, much better than what I see from joomla.

You already know the other one I pm'd you about

And changing the pics on the homepage to the current roster would be cool, AmMo's commie stache greeting me is a turnoff...and could be as well to newbies.

Maybe an established setting on game threads, some are set up the day before, and I set one up ten minutes before game time the other day, and the naming for them is way off, just an OCD thing on my part.

Also, I have no clue if there are any other Bobcats boards out there but if there are maybe you could contact them about joining us? Once again I have no clue.

And lastly, could we see about getting a media pass for the BCP Radio? Or at least figure out what it would take?

The only other big Bobcats board is Realgm, and they are doing their own thing.

I asked about media passes earlier this season, and the Bobcats current policy doesn't include internet based media. Maybe that'll change one of these days.

[teej]

The only other big Bobcats board is Realgm, and they are doing their own thing.

I asked about media passes earlier this season, and the Bobcats current policy doesn't include internet based media. Maybe that'll change one of these days.

I wasn't talking about the bigguns, I meant the little small ones, like 1k post ones, and put them on here. If there were just 5 of them, thats 5 more dedicated members like you/me/tat/bing/ohara/etc. to post. See what I'm going for?

And maybe you could get Michael T to find a way around that/change it? Or since tat knows Fred W, something like that? Just floating ideas, and just my opinions.

[spectre]

Keetch and I were walking around last night and I'm positive we spotted you Zig! You got away before we could speak, but I have to say that full length fluffy yellow fur coat with the matching yellow bowler hat was just outstanding!

I think you should put a full length pic of that on the front page!

[ziggy]

Keetch and I were walking around last night and I'm positive we spotted you Zig! You got away before we could speak, but I have to say that full length fluffy yellow fur coat with the matching yellow bowler hat was just outstanding!

I think you should put a full length pic of that on the front page!

LOL, that wasn't me :biggrin: My Canary yellow pimp suit is in the dry cleaners.

[bing!]

Ziggy, I don't know if the following caught your attention in the past but when one tries to change 'results to view' setting in the top stats page (http://www.bobcatsplanet.com/vb/misc.php?do=cybstats) one gets the following error...


Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing or mismatched.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error.

It's not that big of a problem, but a problem nonetheless. :)

[bing!]

I wasn't talking about the bigguns, I meant the little small ones, like 1k post ones, and put them on here.
There's insidehoops Bobcats board (http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=20), they're pretty small time, I think spectre's a member there, maybe he could woo them here, to the dark side. :)

[spectre]

There's insidehoops Bobcats board (http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=20), they're pretty small time, I think spectre's a member there, maybe he could woo them here, to the dark side. :)

Most post on here already; BobcatsForever is...lol something that has a number behind it like Bobcats195 or saomething. Beeb also posts.

I'd not want to lose that board tho as it's pretty much an OPTIMISTIC board...they don't really slam players over there. That's a nice change of pace and it helps me to keep things in perspective (I'd suggest some try it...).

Especially now since some boards have gotten so hate filled.

BobcatsPlanet remains the premiere board without a doubt...and is home to the best and finest of Bobcats' fans.

Hey, I'd suggest tracking down that ItalianBobcatGirl poster and seeing if she has any friends. :p

[davcbow]

LOL, that wasn't me :biggrin: My Canary yellow pimp suit is in the dry cleaners.

Come on Ziggy you can tell us.... LOL

[Ampsportsduo]

And lastly, could we see about getting a media pass for the BCP Radio? Or at least figure out what it would take?

Seriously! I'm 100% behind this movement.

BTW, I whipped the ROFLCoptor score on the arcade, but couldn't submit my score so people could bask in my greatness. Same goes for some of the other games (Pinguin) too, I believe.

[bing!]

^ the arcade cheated on me a couple of times too, to avoid that, simply start each game (each round) from the main arcade page, every.single.time, that way the scores stick around after the round ends.

I really felt silly typing that.

[ziggy]

Seriously! I'm 100% behind this movement.

BTW, I whipped the ROFLCoptor score on the arcade, but couldn't submit my score so people could bask in my greatness. Same goes for some of the other games (Pinguin) too, I believe.

I may make that an offseason project of mine to nag/beg the Bobcats for media credentials repeatedly until they give it up... Hell, this strategy worked great for me when I was in my early 20's :rim:

On the arcade, I think Bing has found the answer. Thanks bing!

[Ampsportsduo]

Yes, but now my scores stink like third quarter shooting.

[teej]

Is it possible to see who is repping you? Thats just something that drives me up the wall, I can read the messages I'm being sent, but I have no clue who is sending them...just wondering.

[Ampsportsduo]

If you go to the user control panel (user cp) you should be able to see them two fields to the right of the post name.

[teej]

If you go to the user control panel (user cp) you should be able to see them two fields to the right of the post name.

Nope, just post, that I got rep the message, and date :cool:

[bing!]

^ well, it's supposed to display the rep info like this...

http://i477.photobucket.com/albums/rr138/ch_bing/rep.jpg

Fiddle with CP options, maybe you checked a box you shouldn't have. ;)

[spectre]

I have this same problem. I just looked thru the CP and saw no settings for that (course I'm probably just missing it).

[ziggy]

Spectre,
You should see it now, I had one of that permission screwed up for people with 1000+ posts.

Sorry about that,
Ziggy

[spectre]

ty Zig. Not that it was a problem, but I appreciate it.

[teej]

Thanks ziggy!

It was just something that was bugging me more than sprectre, nothing big, but nice to see back.

[teej]

Hey Zig, on the bottom of the main page in the info box, it says you can see more, then it takes you to another page to change what you want displayed, but it never does what you tell it to do, it just gives an error message and says to contact the admin...anything you can do about that?

[ziggy]

Hey Zig, on the bottom of the main page in the info box, it says you can see more, then it takes you to another page to change what you want displayed, but it never does what you tell it to do, it just gives an error message and says to contact the admin...anything you can do about that?

I'll tinker with it this weekend. I may just need to upload the latest version of that plugin

[bing!]

Oh noes, Ziggy is tampering with the forum. Run for your lives! :)

[ziggy]

Hey Zig, on the bottom of the main page in the info box, it says you can see more, then it takes you to another page to change what you want displayed, but it never does what you tell it to do, it just gives an error message and says to contact the admin...anything you can do about that?

Boom goes the dynamite!

Give it another try, there should be lots of additional info via the dropdown arrows now.

[bing!]

I'm not sure if it's possible, but if it is, could you make the "jump to first unread post" arrows a tad bigger.

http://i26.tinypic.com/2v1qg7o.png

[ziggy]

I took a quick look and I think that arrow is buried somewhere in the plugin code. It might not be that easy. :g:

[teej]

Thanks Ziggy, looks great!