Site Re-Design Coming
 

Now I know most people look at stuff on the site with the title "coming" as a fairy tale. But this is happening ;)

The main design aspects are already done, its a new look for procooling, and is going to focus more on the forums and chat than the other content on the site.

The first update is mainly going to be a "looks" upgrade and some forums changes. After that I am working on a nice simple way for people to write articles and reviews on ProCooling and in turn get pH off his ass :) hehe The current system that was in place to post articles is so horribly crappy that pH has given up (and I have also) posting articles or reviews with it. Because of that I am going to get it so there are no excuses :)

Also I am working on making the work logs thing a bit more dynamic and more people involved with them.

There’s lots of stuff I am working on for the site, and hopefully early next week I will get the first parts of it online. Heck after this is done I may even write something again hehe.

I'm still waiting for part II of your roundup

:drool:

wow forum sabbatical and all.. you still took the time to reply to my post! I feel touched!

and yeh part 2 is coming! it will happen, maybe not in our lifetime but it will happen!!

I figure you do need some encouragement, referring to the site of course

I assume you mean early next week as in a year from now next week? :dome:

Sarcasm aside glad to hear an update. :cool: Just about given up on ya all. :D

Heres a sneak peak at the new side design:

http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/att...achmentid=4763

nice link Joe
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hmm

I didnt think attachments had secutrity tied to them... (Its an attachment link from the staff forums thats why)

I will just post the normal image.

Heres the sneak peak so even bill can see it.

Wow, that new design is impressive. Very neat, organized, and clean. The way the pros ought to do it, nice work. Can't wait to see this "next week" (hah).

Me likes!
And wow, Bill is back. Again. :D
Good stuff!

I like the random forum pic feature; I know it's going to come back and bite me... ;)

Nice work Joe; looking forward to it!

just encouraging Joe
still blue eh ?
didn't some of the euros object ?
(conflicted with the rose colored glasses ??, no - wait, George has those)

hi ho

haha nice bill :)

You might be able to sell that script as a VB portal. :D Looking good!

Nother pic.

The worklogs deal is no longer a staff only thing (well at first it will be) but there will be an entire area of the site for people to have their own technical worklogs... or "workblogs" as I have started to call them. I wrote it so it handles your avatar (or not if you don't have one), and a bunch of other data.

You will notice in the pics that the preview text doesnt parse the vbb code yet... I am having issues with the code for that at this point, may just be something I write off for now.

One of the things I want to do with the new site design is work in stuff to let people collaborate, post their ideas, and just give them a technically oriented place to discuss the cooling topics outside of a purely forum env.

Stuff is moving along ok, one of the big things I need to get done is the stripping of all the formatting from all the existing articles and reviews to get them into some template's for the new site. pH is slacking and hasn't hooked me up yet with the source files.

One thing I find funny is I haven't yet had to start populating a site specific database... everything is coming from the vbb DB for the site so far (although I have added a couple tables, and fields in it.)

And Jaydee , hehe nah this thing is being made form fitting for what I think ProCooling needs. Much like the MWL site was for its function. the MWL code was so specific that I am hardly able to use any of it on this project.

For the update I am pondering with the idea of taking down the site for a full weekend to work on it, with the first thing being a reload of the server, then loading the updated site, and updating the forum software, etc...

So on the 20th - 21st the site may be down... I may also just take some "sick" time from work and do it mid week sometime.

Looking good. The workblog deal sounds good.

I found some kick ass code parse scripts for doing UBB/Vbb code outside the forums and not depending on anythign with vbb files/source code (a requirement because I hate version lock). it uses the PEAR extention for PHP. Its nifty and hellishly fast! Prolly going to take a week to get it all tweaked the way I want it, but thats a big step forward for this site redesign, and also the article posting system.

Its still coming, I am just working on getting free time at the end of the week to get everything up at this point.

I havent tracked down pH yet to get the files I need from him, so as of now the new site wont go up this weekend. bit I am putting lots of time in adding lots of stuff to it :)

We need to attach a GPS transmitter to pH's ass..... :D

I have a Trimble Ag114 on a pole ?

As of yet, no word from the Canuk... I know hes read my PM's and my posts to him... The dude must be deep into WoW currently... or still drunk, one of the two.

pH's status
 

He left here (SRC) in good shape (relatively) in June - do not blame us academics for interfering with his job at Procooling.