2011-03-28, 02:03 AM
Hi, I'm looking to start a new forum. Basically, it won't have to be too complex. In fact, I'm trying to be pretty minimalist here.
So basically, here's what I want.
1. VERY easy registration. My main site is not going to be the smf forum. The subdomain or the subfolder will contain the forum so it'll look like mysite.com/forums or forums.mysite.com
When the user clicks register on my main site, it will show an unintrusive login popup. It would require only username, password, email, captcha. That's it. From there, the users can go into deeper details with their profiles at a later time if they want, but it's not necessary. After the 10sec sign-in, the user is free to do whatever.
If you don't what I mean, check out reddit.com's registration. It's so easy and really does take like 10seconds.
2. Facebook integration. People can sign up via facebook, or comment via facebook.
3. I want to insert an image or ad immediately after the last relevant content on every page. Like my image/ad would be right after the quick reply.
4. The most important thing, however, is I want a gallery-style subforum. Let me explain. The forums.mysite.com will look like any forum. But when you click in a subforum like General Discussion, it'll show the thread titles like this: http://i.imgur.com/lreTw.png
It's important to note that the thread titles will not be yellow nor images. That many images would be too expensive... Instead, all the thread titles would simply be text. It's tricky know, but I really want this, if possible. Basically, the code would have to figure out font-size and when to go to the next line, to keep the text inside the box. For example, if a user submits a thread entitled, "I like Halo 3" on General Discussions, the title would appear in a box that reads "I like Halo 3", simple as that. It'd probably be in Arial, size 18 font. Like:
_________
l l
l I like l
l Halo 3 l
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But if the user submits a threads entitled "The war in Afghanistan was a complete and utter mess", the code would have to adjust to fit inside the box. So basically the code, would have to somehow figure out the size of sentences and words to make it fit in a box. It'd probably look something like this:
________________
l The war in Af- l
l ghanistan was l
l a complete l
l and mutter mess l
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It sounds pretty complicated, right? The other, better, option would be when a person wants to create a title, the person would be given something like an online text pad, so the server wouldn't need to figure out anything.
Again, I do not want the title squares to be images as I can imagine the hosting cost being insane.
How hard would it be to do that? It really is important for me for various reasons, and I know how stupid, unintuitive it may be, but I really do want that.
So a summary on #4. the forums.mysite.com looks like any other forum. It's only the subforum that looks different. It'll be in a gallery format. When the person enters the topics, it'll look like a regular forum's topic section. To be specific, I'd want it to look like IGN's comment section in the forum. Like: http://boards.ign.com/xbox_360_lobby/b82...3006/p1/?8
It just has a very nice clean look to it.
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Anyways that's it.
Also, I'd really love an estimate on how long I should expect to work on my forum. And how much coding I should do, if I expect to integrate 1 thru 3. I know #4 is pretty complex so I'm hoping somebody's up for the challenge. I suppose I can pay for it, but I'm not rich by any means.
My site is not a CMS, btw. Not sure if that matters, but yeah.
All replies are greatly appreciated, thanks!
So basically, here's what I want.
1. VERY easy registration. My main site is not going to be the smf forum. The subdomain or the subfolder will contain the forum so it'll look like mysite.com/forums or forums.mysite.com
When the user clicks register on my main site, it will show an unintrusive login popup. It would require only username, password, email, captcha. That's it. From there, the users can go into deeper details with their profiles at a later time if they want, but it's not necessary. After the 10sec sign-in, the user is free to do whatever.
If you don't what I mean, check out reddit.com's registration. It's so easy and really does take like 10seconds.
2. Facebook integration. People can sign up via facebook, or comment via facebook.
3. I want to insert an image or ad immediately after the last relevant content on every page. Like my image/ad would be right after the quick reply.
4. The most important thing, however, is I want a gallery-style subforum. Let me explain. The forums.mysite.com will look like any forum. But when you click in a subforum like General Discussion, it'll show the thread titles like this: http://i.imgur.com/lreTw.png
It's important to note that the thread titles will not be yellow nor images. That many images would be too expensive... Instead, all the thread titles would simply be text. It's tricky know, but I really want this, if possible. Basically, the code would have to figure out font-size and when to go to the next line, to keep the text inside the box. For example, if a user submits a thread entitled, "I like Halo 3" on General Discussions, the title would appear in a box that reads "I like Halo 3", simple as that. It'd probably be in Arial, size 18 font. Like:
_________
l l
l I like l
l Halo 3 l
----------
But if the user submits a threads entitled "The war in Afghanistan was a complete and utter mess", the code would have to adjust to fit inside the box. So basically the code, would have to somehow figure out the size of sentences and words to make it fit in a box. It'd probably look something like this:
________________
l The war in Af- l
l ghanistan was l
l a complete l
l and mutter mess l
-------------------
It sounds pretty complicated, right? The other, better, option would be when a person wants to create a title, the person would be given something like an online text pad, so the server wouldn't need to figure out anything.
Again, I do not want the title squares to be images as I can imagine the hosting cost being insane.
How hard would it be to do that? It really is important for me for various reasons, and I know how stupid, unintuitive it may be, but I really do want that.
So a summary on #4. the forums.mysite.com looks like any other forum. It's only the subforum that looks different. It'll be in a gallery format. When the person enters the topics, it'll look like a regular forum's topic section. To be specific, I'd want it to look like IGN's comment section in the forum. Like: http://boards.ign.com/xbox_360_lobby/b82...3006/p1/?8
It just has a very nice clean look to it.
----
Anyways that's it.
Also, I'd really love an estimate on how long I should expect to work on my forum. And how much coding I should do, if I expect to integrate 1 thru 3. I know #4 is pretty complex so I'm hoping somebody's up for the challenge. I suppose I can pay for it, but I'm not rich by any means.
My site is not a CMS, btw. Not sure if that matters, but yeah.
All replies are greatly appreciated, thanks!