Recent Posts thread, viewable on HOME screen?

[Kami]

Well the question really it what are you trying to accomplish? Do you want them to look through the forum or just the recent posts?

The way I see it is you're trying to both encourage people to scroll through the forum proper instead of just going through to threads they've already posted in AND having it so they don't have to scroll through individual boards by having the recent posts available immediately.

You can't do both, so you need to decide what would be more beneficial to your forum: having them scroll through, or seeing the recent posts.

[Skidjit]

Before talking to you guys, my original thought was to scroll through the whole home page, then without having to click anything, see all of the recent posts in a scrollable box at the bottom.

Now that I know it's not possible, nor good for my site, I think having the announcement up top along with the link to recent posts, as suggested would be most beneficial. That is if it can seen on every page. At least it's a temptation for my members to click. I just don't know how to do the template nor where to place it. Any help would be appreciated.

[Kami]

Where would you like it to appear? On every page or only on the home page? Also under / above anything in particular (e.g. Above or below the navigation tree)

[Skidjit]

Oct 5, 2016 10:32:01 GMT -8 Kami said:

Where would you like it to appear? On every page or only on the home page? Also under / above anything in particular (e.g. Above or below the navigation tree)

On every page would be great. Maybe placed directly below the News Fader plugin I'm using.

Thanks.

[Kami]

Skidjit - I don't use that plugin, so can you provide me with a link to your forum so I can tell you where to place the HTML? (:

[Skidjit]

Kami

Sure. It's the one in my siggy below.

Here it is again. lovegood-lounge.proboards.com/

I have a couple of plugins that target that area. Still, I think this message would go best just below the News fader particularly.


The other two plugins would be On This Date and General Notices. But I think they are only viewable on the home page when I have them enabled.

The News fader plugin is on all pages. Hope that helps somehow.

[Kami]

Hm, okay. So I have two options for you:

1. You put the message under the news fader on the home page, then duplicate the message on non-home pages.

2. Put the message above the news fader on the home page, and have it appear on all other pages without duplication.

What would you prefer?

[Skidjit]

Oct 5, 2016 12:57:44 GMT -8 Kami said:

Hm, okay. So I have two options for you:

1. You put the message under the news fader on the home page, then duplicate the message on non-home pages.

2. Put the message above the news fader on the home page, and have it appear on all other pages without duplication.

What would you prefer?

Kami

If I choose #1. Would that mean I would have to go in and manually duplicated the message on the non-home pages, or would that be done with the template?

I'm thinking #1 would be my choice.  

[Kami]

Oct 5, 2016 14:48:54 GMT -8 Skidjit said:

Oct 5, 2016 12:57:44 GMT -8 Kami said:

Hm, okay. So I have two options for you:

1. You put the message under the news fader on the home page, then duplicate the message on non-home pages.

2. Put the message above the news fader on the home page, and have it appear on all other pages without duplication.

What would you prefer?

Kami

If I choose #1. Would that mean I would have to go in and manually duplicated the message on the non-home pages, or would that be done with the template?

I'm thinking #1 would be my choice.  

Essentially. What I'm thinking is that we'd set the box to display under the news fader only on the home page, then put a second instance in the forum wrapper set to show elsewhere (like under the nav tree bar / participated bar) if it's not on the home page. Does that work?

[Skidjit]

Let's give it a try. Sounds good to me.

[Kami]

Skidjit - OK i've figured out the coding -- do you want me to also do up some CSS for you? If you do, please provide me with the colours you'd like to use (:

[Skidjit]

Oct 5, 2016 16:19:21 GMT -8 Kami said:

Skidjit - OK i've figured out the coding -- do you want me to also do up some CSS for you? If you do, please provide me with the colours you'd like to use (:

If it's not too difficult is there a way that it could follow each theme? I don't know codes. If it's too hard to do let me know and I'll choose something. 

[Kami]

Oct 5, 2016 16:28:45 GMT -8 Skidjit said:

Oct 5, 2016 16:19:21 GMT -8 Kami said:

Skidjit - OK i've figured out the coding -- do you want me to also do up some CSS for you? If you do, please provide me with the colours you'd like to use (:

If it's not too difficult is there a way that it could follow each theme? I don't know codes. If it's too hard to do let me know and I'll choose something. 

Possibly. If you want me to match it to how your boards look, I can write the HTML classes that way, and then it'll pick up the CSS for that theme. But, if you want it to stand out and not blend in (it is supposed to be an attention-getter after all), you'd have to make adjustments manually per theme.

Either way it's up to you!

[Skidjit]

I'm trying to envision it in my head. Maybe like this reply box I'm typing in, with a white background, black font color with maybe a dark blue line around the white box, slightly rounded corners. This is what I'm thinking right now. The white background would match any theme but stand out from all the ones i've created so far.

Is this what you were asking?

[Kami]

Oct 5, 2016 16:40:54 GMT -8 Skidjit said:

I'm trying to envision it in my head. Maybe like this reply box I'm typing in, with a white background, black font color with maybe a dark blue line around the white box, slightly rounded corners. This is what I'm thinking right now. The white background would match any theme but stand out from all the ones i've created so far.

Is this what you were asking?

Yep. (: I'll get back to you in a second.