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David
12th Oct 2006, 11:05 pm
Welcome to the latest incarnation of the MAWA forum. I've imported all of the old IPB forum to the latest version of vBulletin. The process was pretty easy and it's taken about a days work to do the import, clean everything up, skin the board and configure everything, also adding our favourite smilies etc.

I've been running vBulletin for a while now and am very happy with it. I hope we can have some interesting discussions. :unsure:
James
13th Oct 2006, 06:50 am
Cheers David, I haven't had a thorough rummage round but all looks good so far.
francis
16th Oct 2006, 07:33 pm
Looks good, but you'd think that the form software would have some kind of toolbar for inserting links, emboldening text, etc. At first I thought the missing toolbar was a result of Safari's middling Javascript support, so I switched to Firefox. As that was no-go as well, I rooted around and eventually found the "you may, you may not" box at the bottom left of the page. Strike one for usability.

As a side note, I've given up counting the times I clicked the banner to get to the home page, only for it to not be a link.

Other than that, it's looking really good. And there's a load of our old posts for the new cohort to mooch through - enjoy that :blink:
David
16th Oct 2006, 08:16 pm
Looks good, but you'd think that the form software would have some kind of toolbar for inserting links, emboldening text, etc.

Francis, you can turn on full WYSIWIG text editing by going to your User CP and clicking on "Options". It's off by default because it's not compatible with older browsers.

I had to do a FAQ post for the CADTutor forum when I moved that over to vBulletin: http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=8976

You're right about the banner "home" link. I will add it.
francis
16th Oct 2006, 08:23 pm
Ah yeah, there you go - now I've got some kind of FCK Editor interface thing. That's much better.

I was interested to see that the CP allows users to have a downloadable vCard. I wonder if that's a Microformats implementation? (http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard)

Speaking of which, this should be an interesting evening (http://upcoming.org/event/105545)