New ajb007 - Overview
SiCo
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Welcome to the new Absolutely James Bond. This is the first step in a long overdue upgrade of the website and all it's features. Most of the features are the same as the old site, or at least as near as possible.
Please use this topic if you have any questions about the new site. I urge you to post any comments, good or bad, the site is by no means complete and I will consider all comments.
Please Note - What you are experiencing is not the finished article, graphics and articles etc. will be coming back. Unfortunately due to problems with the old site I decided to upgrade sooner rather than later. This will knock out a few features temporarily but is for the better in the long run.
New Features - Overview
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[*]Quick Posts - At the bottom of every topic page is a posting form to make it even easier and quicker to post.[/*]
[*]Post Editor - Formatting options are now one click if you have javascript enabled. You can of course still type the codes.[/*]
[*]Email Subscriptions - Receive an email when some replies to a topic you are subscribed to.[/*]
[*]Search that actually works!
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[*]Quick links at the top to all new posts since your last visit, currently active topics, and topics without answers - very useful![/*]
[*]Links on each forum and topic to show the new posts since your last visit - Again very useful![/*]
[*]Lots more I'll post as I remember![/*]
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Not Finished & Coming Soon
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[*]RSS Feeds will be available for each forum - as well as for new posts etc.[/*]
[*]The codes you can use while posting have not been finalised.[/*]
[*]General Site Layout and Graphics - Darrenhats graphics will be reappearing![/*]
[*]Avatar options are currently a bit basic, I am working on re-instating a gallery.[/*]
[*]Private Messages - They are more basic than before (if that's possible!)[/*]
[*]Again lots more and I'll post as I remember![/*]
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Private Messages
Please see: http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/33196/private-messages/
[strike]No private messages have been transferred, there were simply too many of them it would of been a ridiculous use of resources! If you want any of your messages I am more than happy to supply them as text to you. If you want them imported into this site I will see what I can do but they are not a priority at this stage. I apologise for any inconvenience this causes. - If you have anything important saved there I can retrieve it for you. [/strike]
Comments, Questions, Suggestions...
Please post any comments or questions here. I must stress if you don't like something, or you love something please post as I will be making changes over the coming days so speak now... Lastly sorry it's taking so long it is quite a mammoth project though! I hope you can work around any problems, I will try and fix them as fast as I can.
Updates & Fixes
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[*]Update: Added sub and sup tags for subscript and superscript.[/*]
[*]Fix: Some links were coloured black on a black background[/*]
[*]Update: Private Messages can now be retrieved. - http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/33196/private-messages/[/*]
[*]Update: Strike tag - Typing strike in square brackets will strike text.[/*]
[*]The articles are now back (all be it in a temporarily basic form! http://jamesbond.ajb007.co.uk/[/*]
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Please use this topic if you have any questions about the new site. I urge you to post any comments, good or bad, the site is by no means complete and I will consider all comments.
Please Note - What you are experiencing is not the finished article, graphics and articles etc. will be coming back. Unfortunately due to problems with the old site I decided to upgrade sooner rather than later. This will knock out a few features temporarily but is for the better in the long run.
New Features - Overview
[list=*]
[*]Quick Posts - At the bottom of every topic page is a posting form to make it even easier and quicker to post.[/*]
[*]Post Editor - Formatting options are now one click if you have javascript enabled. You can of course still type the codes.[/*]
[*]Email Subscriptions - Receive an email when some replies to a topic you are subscribed to.[/*]
[*]Search that actually works!
)[/*][*]Quick links at the top to all new posts since your last visit, currently active topics, and topics without answers - very useful![/*]
[*]Links on each forum and topic to show the new posts since your last visit - Again very useful![/*]
[*]Lots more I'll post as I remember![/*]
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Not Finished & Coming Soon
[list=*]
[*]RSS Feeds will be available for each forum - as well as for new posts etc.[/*]
[*]The codes you can use while posting have not been finalised.[/*]
[*]General Site Layout and Graphics - Darrenhats graphics will be reappearing![/*]
[*]Avatar options are currently a bit basic, I am working on re-instating a gallery.[/*]
[*]Private Messages - They are more basic than before (if that's possible!)[/*]
[*]Again lots more and I'll post as I remember![/*]
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Private Messages
Please see: http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/33196/private-messages/
[strike]No private messages have been transferred, there were simply too many of them it would of been a ridiculous use of resources! If you want any of your messages I am more than happy to supply them as text to you. If you want them imported into this site I will see what I can do but they are not a priority at this stage. I apologise for any inconvenience this causes. - If you have anything important saved there I can retrieve it for you. [/strike]
Comments, Questions, Suggestions...
Please post any comments or questions here. I must stress if you don't like something, or you love something please post as I will be making changes over the coming days so speak now... Lastly sorry it's taking so long it is quite a mammoth project though! I hope you can work around any problems, I will try and fix them as fast as I can.
Updates & Fixes
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[*]Update: Added sub and sup tags for subscript and superscript.[/*]
[*]Fix: Some links were coloured black on a black background[/*]
[*]Update: Private Messages can now be retrieved. - http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/33196/private-messages/[/*]
[*]Update: Strike tag - Typing strike in square brackets will strike text.[/*]
[*]The articles are now back (all be it in a temporarily basic form! http://jamesbond.ajb007.co.uk/[/*]
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Simon
Comments
"Better make that two."
Loving the new layout, very fresh!
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2) The gender, from, registered & posts from the members cannot be seen because it is grey text on a grey background.
3) Where has the avatar gallery gone
4) Where has the favourite films feature gone?
1) Yes they have I will import a few later. Otherwise just start again! - If you want anything specific let me know the title.
2) This is now fixed thanks for pointing it out. If you can't see them yet and are on Windows hold the ctrl key and press F5 to refresh the page.
3) As mentioned above I am working on it. For the moment I apologise about the strict restrictions on avatar uploads (they currently must be the correct size.
4) This is temporarily gone until I can rework it for the new site. It's coming back bigger and better than ever!
I hope this answers some of your questions.
Should look great when finished -{
I look forward to seeing all the features such as articles etc. back.
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[*]Online of offline under user name on topic[/*]
[*]Time you posted a message on profile page, topic posted x mins ago[/*]
[*]Favourite Topics and subscriptions[/*]
[*]Settings like topics and posts per page etc - editable via profile page[/*]
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Why does everything have to be underlined?
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Just one quick question: will mods still have to approve avatars or can I just upload a pic?
Bravo and keep up the great work.
I'm sorry to hear that, it's the last thing I want! What exactly and I can work towards fixing it. All the old links were underlined too. Which are causing the problems?
Yep 100% agree, will get to it when I get home.
Currently no but you still can't use MGM Copyrighted images so please don't If this is abused I will work moderation back in.
Bond’s Beretta
The Handguns of Ian Fleming's James Bond
Nothing too bad. It's just like it's stretching my brain...
Isn't the grey too grey or something?
Roger Moore 1927-2017
As someone who runs / manages a successful forum (on a completely unrelated topic) I know how much hard work it can be. So a big well done to the forum management at AJB!
NMS
This was a fault on my part, the links are to the right under the grey bar at the very top. I unfortunately had them coloured black on a black background!
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[*]New posts - All new posts since your last visit.[/*]
[*]Active topics - All active topics (posted in within x days) - This is close to it!.[/*]
[*]Unanswered topics - All topics without a reply, not overly relevant here, more for questions and answers forums.[/*]
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Having done that I've realised the option you actually want isn't there ;% I'm on it!
No but they certainly will be, to be honest I didn't think anyone used them! If you can go a little while without I will do my best to get them back as soon as possible.
Will that be making a return Si?
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Another I liked was on the old system when you clicked on a members profile you could see when they last logged in, will that be brought back at all and integrated into the new system?
I am not sure, I hope so but not immediately. It's not a built in feature so I will have to work it myself. However it shouldn't be too hard to work from the small feature that is there.
This is unlikely to return, I will however look into it.
Thaks for the time and effort you have put into this SiCo. Distinct improvement!
It looks like a work in progress... because it is!
Once the familiar fonts and animations return, things won't look so generic, and I'm sure the AJB feel will return, only much improved :007)
Where (and when) can we expect to see the old 'sidebar' items return, such as the articles, fan fiction, and general James Bond information?