Re: Welcome to explorermedia.net V3.0

[Robert]

Hello everyone, and welcome to the new and (hopefully soon to be) improved explorermedia.net. Since this site was mainly used for its forum, we had no need of an extensive CMS/portal engine like e107.

So I've ported the entire forums to SMF, with (almost) great success. I say "almost" because I was sadly unable to transfer the attachements, wich for a site like this is the most important thing to have. So for the next few days I will be editing most of your post to manually "re-attach" your files to them. It will take some time so please be patient.

Now for the good news. The porting of our forums to SMF will help alot with:

speed - a forum requires alot less from your internet connection that a full website/CMS/portal engine;
flexibility - SMF way more user-friendly than e107, easier to mod and to use on both the admin and user side;
interactivity - our community will now have access to many features such as karma (thumbs up), better polls, awards, many things that will keep us united as a family.

There are many other things that will be comming.

And on a more personal note, I'm currently working on 3d modelling, so the next step would be attracting the attention of some modellers for tips and trick and of course to show off their work.

Hope to see this community grow.

Thank you.

-Robert/explorer

[deif]

hi explorer

thanx for the new version of explorermedia! it's more then ten times faster as the previous forum and im shure, it will become a nice place to mmet. look forward to the progress in future.

thanx also for the confidence to made me a "global moderator" - what a word. i really feel honored to be part of this community and hope we will have good times.

keep on star treking!

[Robert]

Thanks deif,
I also forgot to mention to everyone that if there is any request for specific kind of features they would like added to the site. You can just ask for it here.

[Bluescreen]

Hi explorer,

I have two critics on the new site layout. First I think the lcars pictures looks not so good on the white background. An lcars site should be dark background I think.

The second I don't like is the border around the screen. I sometimes read this forum on a PDA. On it's tiny display the border is now 2/3 of the screen, so I cannot read the messages.

What is better now: speed and the editor. And I hope you get the attached files back. I came to this site because of the much very nice graphics and now they are gone. Can't you read the attachements from the old database and insert them into the new with some sql scripts?

Bluescreen

[Robert]

First I think the lcars pictures looks not so good on the white background. An lcars site should be dark background I think.

The second I don't like is the border around the screen. I sometimes read this forum on a PDA. On it's tiny display the border is now 2/3 of the screen, so I cannot read the messages.

Hey Bluescreen, thanks for posting. I'll check to see if I can find a better/modify a better template, this was always in my head a temporary theme. I'll try to change it by the end of the weekend, and also try to make it full screen.

Thanks again.

[Captain Elgy]

Hi Explorer,

Nice place you got* here!!.* ;)

Liking the new look forums, though I do agree with Bluescreen, you could sure use a darker theme to bring out the best in LCARS etc.

Still like it. Even though I haven't posted anything is a while, I still keep a close watch on the boards, there is still some quality work being produced.

Weldone everyone, and Weldone explorer whoso kindly lets us all play in his backyard lol.* ;D

[Robert]

UPDATE...
started to change the theme, making it a bit darker... plus added some small features.
-friendly urls
-better recent post section on the main page
-thumbnail in the thread list...
-and few other things..

hope you'll enjoy!