2006-10-02, 08:36 AM
Hi all
I'd just like to introduce my forums at my new site The Turtle Moves.
The whole site is for fans of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of books, and I've skinned the forums and made them look as integrated as possible with the rest of the site.
You can find the forums here: http://www.theturtlemoves.com/forums and browse around the site to see how integrated things actually are - on the frontpage at http://www.theturtlemoves.com , news is pulled from the news forum, events from the calendar, latest topics from the latest forum topics etc.
In fact, rather than build my own CMS, some of the site pages (links, competitions and interviews) are actually pulled from topics in a hidden admin-only forum so admins can update them simply by editing a thread!
Quick Notes: The forum skin was stripped down to make a simpler interface on the main forum index. Because it's crammed into a narrowish space, I couldn't have spearate columns for all the info such as posts, threads and latest topics. There's also a good chance that some pages look a little odd, but anything broken will be fixed soon.
My coding isn't the best and it's not easy to implement, so please don't ask me to release the code behind the site. Chances are if you know enough PHP to integrate my code into your own site then you could just as easily do it yourself
Besides, all it does is initialise myBB outside of the forums and use it's functions for the most part 
Finally, if you're a Discworld fan, please sign up to the site and join in the discussion (or rather kick off the discussion as the site's brand new!). If you're not, please feel free to have a look around anyway, just don't sign up for the heck of it
I'd just like to introduce my forums at my new site The Turtle Moves.
The whole site is for fans of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of books, and I've skinned the forums and made them look as integrated as possible with the rest of the site.
You can find the forums here: http://www.theturtlemoves.com/forums and browse around the site to see how integrated things actually are - on the frontpage at http://www.theturtlemoves.com , news is pulled from the news forum, events from the calendar, latest topics from the latest forum topics etc.
In fact, rather than build my own CMS, some of the site pages (links, competitions and interviews) are actually pulled from topics in a hidden admin-only forum so admins can update them simply by editing a thread!
Quick Notes: The forum skin was stripped down to make a simpler interface on the main forum index. Because it's crammed into a narrowish space, I couldn't have spearate columns for all the info such as posts, threads and latest topics. There's also a good chance that some pages look a little odd, but anything broken will be fixed soon.
My coding isn't the best and it's not easy to implement, so please don't ask me to release the code behind the site. Chances are if you know enough PHP to integrate my code into your own site then you could just as easily do it yourself
Besides, all it does is initialise myBB outside of the forums and use it's functions for the most part Finally, if you're a Discworld fan, please sign up to the site and join in the discussion (or rather kick off the discussion as the site's brand new!). If you're not, please feel free to have a look around anyway, just don't sign up for the heck of it
.... you should just change those status icons