Where is recent posts, you mean the one at the top of the forum index? I usually just click on Go to the New Posts, which shows topics.

Not a bad idea. The danger is of the list getting super-long if there are a lot of, for example, member features.

On further thought, I'm more in agreement with comicIDIOT on this. Even though it would make things more organized, I feel it would segregate out the topics too much to have that many subfora.

Not on the forum, on the Site Index.

I believe you mentioned somewhere that only projects that are updated constantly and for users who continually post projects and finish them or something along those words. I don't see "Member Features" expanding too rapidly.

I suppose so, but there's already three, and Merth's Tokens project is going to get featured, since it looks great, will have wide appeal, will have a DCS GUI creator, and will hopefully interface with SourceCoder. That's already four, and I'd love to have another few projects that turn into member features. I'll play it by ear, though; first things first is to put the subsubfora on a separate line and fix the font size issue.

Mock Up:


Bold topic means new posts since last visit, basically. Since, the little exclamation (!) goes away after viewing one topic I believe.

Huh, I actually quite like the way that that looks. What does everyone else think of that?

I'm a fan.

I'm a little hot, can you turn up the power and oscillate?

It looks to me like there would be room for two out of the three possible info items: thread title, last post author, last post date/time. What do you guys think should be there? Author and date/time, like in comic's mockup, or something different?

I guess if it said "Last post in <thread> by <author>..." that'd be nice. Other than that, I think it's got basically the right amount of info. Even without which thread it was in, it's not a big inconvenience to click through.

I felt that if it the date/time isn't included, people would pass it up. It could even be "Topic" at "Time" apposed "Author" at "Time." But if you include the topic, people may pass it up because they aren't interested in that project, while a project they are interested in under the same feature, has been updated, so Author would draw them in and look around I think.

Mmm, and even if I left the topic title out, the title of the project forum is still there, which should give some kind of hint, don't you guys think?

That was my idea in the mock up, more or less

Indeed it was. Aight, I'll implement that and see how it works out, after I've gotten Doors CS off the table and have it stop stressing me out.

Aight. I ended up using tables to do the mock. Lists required some extra CSS to make it fit so I worked with what was already styled ;P

If you like, I can try and fit in the post counts for each sub-forum in the table? And just hand you the HTML.

Tables are fine; the index is already table-based. If you could try that out, that would be great. Would having the template for the current forum index help you?

I'm not positive. I just CTRL+S the index and worked off that. If you want to send me the template I could even try to add in the {$_VARIABLES} as well!

Sent. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Now that the mock I made is live, what does everyone think?

Kerm, I still think the cell after the sub-forum name needs some padding.

You mean to add more space between the name and the icon/last post text?

Aye. Not much, maybe ten or so pixels.