Seems like Google has made it popular to change the logo of a website for holidays. My question is how many of y’all do the same, and more importantly do your members like it? Over on my photography forum I switched out the default logo with a winter themed one for Christmas. It’s scheduled to [...]
This is one of those features I’ve been wanting to add to my photography forum for a while now, but I just got around to it this weekend. With the addition of a database table, a new template file, a few source files, and changes to several others, my Simple Machines Forum now gives my [...]
About a year ago I wrote a post on how to embed a YouTube video in a Simple Machines Forum post. Well, as it works out today I needed to embed a Google Video in a post so I went through and did almost the same process to get it to work.
How important do you think design is to the success of a forum? It’s an extremely popular topic on web design forums. Content or design? Which has the bigger effect on the success of a forum? I don’t think anyone would argue that a forum can succeed without good content, but how big of a [...]
The bbPress folks have released version 0.9 of their forum software. It looks like the primary reason for the upgrade is so that those that have integrated bbPress and WordPress can upgrade to WordPress 2.5. There are also several new features including an installer, more RSS feeds, and Gravatar support. The bbPress site has the [...]