GRRR Squad Forum

I agree a reorganization is a great idea! I can throw my hat in the circle to help rearrange and organize if need be. I have some Admin console experience and I'm sure with a short tut with the Duckles' I'll be able to add some value if the powers that be degree.... Thanks

Hi guys. Will be back soon and will help. As for input. I would say it must be simple and clean. Will give it a full look when I am back.

I know the mass of options can be daunting, but worry not - it's actually easy, just a case of navigating to the correct areas.

Click Admin, login again as per the wy it wkz, then on the left scroll right to the middle somewhere and look for:

[b]Forums & Moderators
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Forum Manager
[/b]From there you can now see in the right panel, the layout of the forums.
When you click on Any of them, eg: Click on General - then look down the page and you can see [b]Parent Forum[/b] for general this is ---[grrr]
You can move where it is placed by changing it's Parent.

If you want to move TOPICS into a another forum, this is different, you do this from the Forum itself not the admin panel.
Go to the Forum.
Eg. Moving SUBFORUM Software General(a subforum to Software), to Software main forum, click on Software General, at the top right click on [b]INLINE MOD[/b] and choose [b]SELECT ALL[/b]. Then at the bottom, click on Moderation Tools and select MOVE THREADS.....chose the Software main forum and proceed. DONE. Now you can delete Software General SubForum - This can only be done in the Admin Panel.

To delete the Software General, once all the threads are moved, Go back to the Admin panel:
[b]Forums & Moderators
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Forum Manager
[/b]From there you can see a Drop-Down menu that currently has [b]Edit Forum[/b], click on that and choose[b] Delete Forum[/b]. It will prompt if you want to do this, choose yes. Done.

Easy, once you know how.

Ducky, just give me a tit-bit of how to access the config panel thinger and I will work from there. I won't have time or skills to be webmaster man but I will most certainly help re-arrange our forums however I can.

Denis' suggestion looks good to me. We have a lot of boards, simplifying them is a good idea.

I agree - less is more. I'd love someone to skill up to move things around and get it going, I'm all for slicker better faster and I won't always have time to do it all. So, anyone with a basic understanding apply to become a webmaster and take the bull by the horns!

Bumpage for more opinions please guys.

I would in particular like to hear from the founders about this... Especially Ducksauce - this has always been your baby dude, how would you like it to grow and evolve :)

[quote="Paul"]I totally agree, Lee has put in a tremendous amount of work and I really don't want him to think that we don't appreciate it but with Forums we need a Less is more approach.[/quote]

Damn... was going to say that we need a total site overhaul to see what response I'd get, but you shut the door on that idea.

Simple steps... keep it clean (less is more) and it must have easy navigation (bread crumbs? no weird topic names)

Less is more. Life gets quite complicated at times and we don't need that to filter onto our forum.

Good looking stuff D, and I agree with the above where we keep topics minimal. Rather more threads than topics.

Keen to see what the rest of the circus say.