Side by side Categories (request)

[Skidjit]

Ok here's what I'm thinking/hoping:

Side by side categories

A choice of two (or three) rows (going down) of categories on home page.

Each category would show at least 2 boards. If there are more than 2, a scroll bar would allow the user to find the board they would like to find.

Once the board is clicked, it would work the same as always... you'd see all of the threads etc as usual.

However, on the home page I'd see no reason for each board to show "# of threads" , "Posts" columns, but keeping the "last post" would be really great.

OK... now that I've dropped my bobber, let's see who might take the challenge.

(If this is not a possible thing, it's ok. At least then I'd know to stop trying, then move on to something else.)

Thanks for taking the time to read this.  

[Skidjit]

Eek!

If I'm asking for something that's pretty much impossible, someone please let me know.

If that's what really is the issue, I'll quit peeking in to see if someone's interested in helping.

thanks.

[Tumbleweed]

May 26, 2016 5:52:38 GMT -8 Skidjit said:

Eek!

If I'm asking for something that's pretty much impossible, someone please let me know.

If that's what really is the issue, I'll quit peeking in to see if someone's interested in helping.

thanks.

I looked at your request and tried to work out how to make categories side by side but didn't have any luck. Boards side by side within a category is typically what people do so I'm a bit stumped how to do your request but I didn't mess with it long so may take another look if no one else jumps in.

I doubt it is impossible but we just don't have that many volunteers who may have the time to work on your request so have patience  and keep bumping every 24 hours.

[Skidjit]

May 26, 2016 7:47:40 GMT -8 Tumbleweed said:

May 26, 2016 5:52:38 GMT -8 Skidjit said:

Eek!

If I'm asking for something that's pretty much impossible, someone please let me know.

If that's what really is the issue, I'll quit peeking in to see if someone's interested in helping.

thanks.

I looked at your request and tried to work out how to make categories side by side but didn't have any luck. Boards side by side within a category is typically what people do so I'm a bit stumped how to do your request but I didn't mess with it long so may take another look if no one else jumps in.

I doubt it is impossible but we just don't have that many volunteers who may have the time to work on your request so have patience  and keep bumping every 24 hours.

Tumbleweed

No worries if it's not possible. It was just a thought I have had for quite some time now. I have one of my test sites with 15 categories and anywhere between 2 or 3 boards up to 10 within those. Even my main one that I have open to my friends there's a lot of categories.

I think I've seen the one you mentioned, with boards side by side within a category. I figure if I can't make categories side by side I'll end up trying that one.

If you are working or thinking about working on it more in the future, I'm not in any big hurry, so no worries about this either.

Ok. I'll bump every 24 hours. I waited close to a week before I did this time.

Thanks for commenting.

[Tumbleweed]

May 26, 2016 8:09:56 GMT -8 Skidjit said:

May 26, 2016 7:47:40 GMT -8 Tumbleweed said:

I looked at your request and tried to work out how to make categories side by side but didn't have any luck. Boards side by side within a category is typically what people do so I'm a bit stumped how to do your request but I didn't mess with it long so may take another look if no one else jumps in.

I doubt it is impossible but we just don't have that many volunteers who may have the time to work on your request so have patience  and keep bumping every 24 hours.

Tumbleweed

No worries if it's not possible. It was just a thought I have had for quite some time now. I have one of my test sites with 15 categories and anywhere between 2 or 3 boards up to 10 within those. Even my main one that I have open to my friends there's a lot of categories.

I think I've seen the one you mentioned, with boards side by side within a category. I figure if I can't make categories side by side I'll end up trying that one.

If you are working or thinking about working on it more in the future, I'm not in any big hurry, so no worries about this either.

Ok. I'll bump every 24 hours. I waited close to a week before I did this time.

Thanks for commenting.

Wow, that's a lot of categories. I can see why you'd want them side by side. I'll try to look again to see if I can figure it out sometime today but don't get your hopes up.  I'll edit this post and tag you so you know one way or another.


Skidjit, I still haven't had a chance to look at this again but if I do and I figure something out, I'll be sure to reply.

[Skidjit]

No hurry here. So no worries either. Thanks

[Skidjit]

B U M P

[Skidjit]

May 26, 2016 8:15:53 GMT -8 Tumbleweed said:

May 26, 2016 8:09:56 GMT -8 Skidjit said:

Tumbleweed

No worries if it's not possible. It was just a thought I have had for quite some time now. I have one of my test sites with 15 categories and anywhere between 2 or 3 boards up to 10 within those. Even my main one that I have open to my friends there's a lot of categories.

I think I've seen the one you mentioned, with boards side by side within a category. I figure if I can't make categories side by side I'll end up trying that one.

If you are working or thinking about working on it more in the future, I'm not in any big hurry, so no worries about this either.

Ok. I'll bump every 24 hours. I waited close to a week before I did this time.

Thanks for commenting.

Wow, that's a lot of categories. I can see why you'd want them side by side. I'll try to look again to see if I can figure it out sometime today but don't get your hopes up.  I'll edit this post and tag you so you know one way or another.


Skidjit , I still haven't had a chance to look at this again but if I do and I figure something out, I'll be sure to reply.

Tumbleweed

I just had a thought... Even though I'm very interested in seeing how this turns out, with v6 coming out soon, do you think this might be better to put this on pause until after it's release? I mean, I'd hate for you or someone else spend time and hard work on this only for whatever changes v6 has in store to have to work on it again.  

[Tumbleweed]

May 28, 2016 17:06:00 GMT -8 Skidjit said:

May 26, 2016 8:15:53 GMT -8 Tumbleweed said:

Wow, that's a lot of categories. I can see why you'd want them side by side. I'll try to look again to see if I can figure it out sometime today but don't get your hopes up.  I'll edit this post and tag you so you know one way or another.


Skidjit , I still haven't had a chance to look at this again but if I do and I figure something out, I'll be sure to reply.

Tumbleweed

I just had a thought... Even though I'm very interested in seeing how this turns out, with v6 coming out soon, do you think this might be better to put this on pause until after it's release? I mean, I'd hate for you or someone else spend time and hard work on this only for whatever changes v6 has in store to have to work on it again.  

It's up to you. We don't known when V6 will be coming out so we could be pausing for a long time. And I have relatives coming Monday and they'll be around for most of the week so again, I can't get to it anyway. If I keep this up, V6 might beat me anyway. lol 

[Teg]

Just curious, is this something like what you're looking to do? (mind you I'm making a custom theme so the set is quite different, but I've also only been working on it for like > 24 hours.

ugt.boards.com

[Skidjit]

May 28, 2016 17:34:07 GMT -8 Teg said:

Just curious, is this something like what you're looking to do? (mind you I'm making a custom theme so the set is quite different, but I've also only been working on it for like > 24 hours.

ugt.boards.com

Well, not really.

What I have in mind is exactly like the home page view except instead of each of the categories being all lined up in one long list/row, there would be two or three... (probably just two) columns. Each category/container would show only probably two boards. If that particular category has more than two, there would be a scroll bar to choose to click on.

I guess an easy way to visualize it, think of an egg carton where each egg would be a category of it's own. Once you click on the chosen board, it would look like normal on the inside.

Thanks for asking though. Teg

(I talk in circles. I hope at least some of that makes sense.)

Your design looks good though.

[Teg]

Skidjit, Oh, I got you. I could probably do that or you could, buy wrapping categories in a .container# and giving those containers the width/ height you want them to be as well as floating them to left or right and displaying them appropriately.

[Skidjit]

Teg

Oh that sounds cool. I really don't know how to do that myself. Any help would be much appreciated.

I also thought it would be more simpler to not have the "# of threads" , "Posts" columns included on the home page if the categories were to be viewed like this.

[Teg]

Skidjit
Okay, so check utg.boards.net again as I've temporarily removed my original codes to show you of an example. If that's what you're looking for, you'll need to go into your Home template and at the top, just under $[news] highlight from the {foreach $[category]} down to the closing {/foreach} and replace it with the following:

{foreach $[category]}
<div class="container1">
$[category.anchor]
<div class="container boards">
<div class="title-bar bbcode"><h2><div class="title_wrapper">$[category.display_name]</div></h2></div>
<div class="content cap-bottom">
$[category.board_list]
</div>
</div>
</div>

{/foreach}
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
Then, in your CSS, add this at the bottom:

.container1 {
   width:49.4%;
   padding: 1px;
   display: block;
   float: left;
   min-height: 420px;
}

Now, the min-height, can be changed if needed, but I wouldn't mess with it as I think you have aLOT of boards lol. to make it more responsive, you'll have to set @ media (without the space between the @ and media... apparently there's a user here with that tag lol) screen and (max-width: #px) for each breakpoint and change the CSS accordingly.

if need be, you can remove the columns you don't want topics, posts, etc by editing the board list template and removing those sections.

[Skidjit]

Teg

Thanks. I'll try this out hopefully, tomorrow morning. Things are getting a bit hectic here at home right now.

I can't wait to see how it turns out.