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$cirisme
January 23rd 2004, 11:06 AM
Look at all the pretty colors. :teeth:

Welcome to TheologyWeb.com... theology discussion ReVaMpEd!

As you may have noticed things are a just ever so slightly different. We rearranged slightly and I know what you're thinking... "AJ, I'm going to stub my toe! I always do when you rearrange!" ...but this is well worth it :teeth:

First off is the obvious facelift... major kudos to yxboom for doing such an awesome job! If you want something simpler, be sure to check out TheologyWeb Lite (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/index.php?styleid=1). For the ladies, we have a very beautiful skin by JardinPrayer... check it out the TheologyWeb Garden (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/index.php?styleid=6). Now, for you crybabies out there... you can hang out in Tweb's own nursery with the TheologyWeb Bratz (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/index.php?styleid=7). There's something for everyone :teeth:

Now, these changes aren't merely skin deep... the entire forum software, vBulletin, was completely rewritten from the ground up to provide better security, more features, and an awesome speed increase that will definately help our server. :smile: Because of this massive change in the backend of our software, we had to completely rewrite all our well known modifications. I've been working on it since early October. This, too, was written from the ground up. I've added a few features here and there, standardized the look with the rest of the site, and majorly improved memory and processor utilization.

But that's all geeky and boring so let's get to the good stuff. I went wild with the bbcode... I just couldn't stop messing with it. We have a ton of great new bbcodes... starting with an insanely improved column tag.

It now supports a title:

Except for the title[break]this is exactly like the old column tag.

Except for the title[break]this is exactly like the old column tag.

And rows:


Row 1, Col 1[break]Row 1, Col 2[break]Row 1, Col 3
Row 2, Col 1[break]Row 2, Col 2
this is my favorite tag and it took forever to write!


Row 1, Col 1[break]Row 1, Col 2[break]Row 1, Col 3
Row 2, Col 1[break]Row 2, Col 2
this is my favorite tag and it took forever to write!

Of course, you can use the title and row tags as much as or as little as you please.

The disable tag now also disables custom and standard smilies.

The Greek tag has been improved and made more platform independent. We also now have Hebrew tags!

The spoiler tag now accepts smilies in the button (ie: Hello There! :smile:) and it won't freak out if you use apostrophes.

Some other enhancements is the new glossary. When you see a word that is defined in the glossary, such as thread, it will be underlined with a dotted line. Clicking on the word will display a definition. Give it a shot! If you'd rather not have this, open up your User Control Panel->Edit Options-> and under "Thread Display Options" set this to something appropriate.

Also, the shoutbox is now displayed on every page! To open it, simply click the Shoutbox link at the top of the screen. You can also display it as a collapsible box, simply goto edit options and it's under Misc. Options. You can also disable it from appearing, but you don't want to do that :bawl:

That's just a short summary of all the cool new things the rEvAmPeD TWeb has to offer. Enjoy!

There's still lots of work left to get TheologyWeb up and running on the new software, so please bear with us and report problems to the Front Desk.

In The Service Of Christ,
cirisme

PS: Happy 1st Year Birthday, TheologyWeb!

$cirisme
January 23rd 2004, 11:27 AM
In order to avoid possible problems, please be sure to clear your cookies and cache!

Xavier
January 23rd 2004, 01:37 PM
Awesome Job Cir and Boom (with design from JP)... :thumb:

Yours,
Xavier

:xav: <--- Hrmn... Supposed to be dancing tiger... :wink:

$cirisme
January 23rd 2004, 01:42 PM
Custom smilies need to be reindexed, so go a head and add a smiley or remove one and custom smilies should work again...

Xavier
January 23rd 2004, 01:49 PM
Won't let me upload one and there aren't any in the list to delete either... :bawl:

$cirisme
January 23rd 2004, 01:55 PM
Hang on and I will add a rebuild option...

Jaltus
January 23rd 2004, 02:03 PM
Cirisme, you freaking rule!

$cirisme
January 23rd 2004, 02:03 PM
Try it: http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/smileycp.php? then shout with a custom smiley to see if it works

$cirisme
January 23rd 2004, 02:04 PM
Cirisme, you freaking rule!
Let the record reflect that I did not edit that post.


Thanks Jaltus :teeth:

Jaltus
January 23rd 2004, 03:01 PM
Hey, you plan on talking about the reputation thing in here?

jason_r
January 23rd 2004, 03:06 PM
i feel like i'm at a rave! :tongue:

Em7add11
January 23rd 2004, 03:37 PM
Yeah, I'm curious what effects the +/- rep button has.

Xavier
January 23rd 2004, 03:40 PM
Roll your mouse over the Green Square NOW, and go check the bottom of your Control Panel.

malcolm
January 23rd 2004, 07:13 PM
Well, the TheologyWeb Lite skin is by far the nicest - very clean and fast-loading. And the ability to collapse that annoying ShoutBox is absolutely invaluable! :teeth: I may be all alone in this (and no offense meant) but all those bright colors and fancy effects in the other skins are a little over the top for me. The vBulletin 3 upgrade is excellent, though, especially all the work that must have gone into re-coding all the mods! I hope I'll get the time to come here a lot more often now.

in Christ,
Malcolm

PS. Umm, where did the option to upload a custom avatar go, though?

luv1another
January 24th 2004, 04:21 AM
I agree with Jaltus :smile: ....

BUT!!!! I don't have any custom smileys and I can not submit a ticket ...sigh
and my tag line? the short line next to my avatar I don't have a place to be able to change it. ok thats my problems I will Pm you with another problem that is best left unpublicsized :smile: I did let Boom know already though.

luv1another
January 24th 2004, 04:52 AM
uh just another problem when I click the email link I get this ...

Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_STRING' or `T_VARIABLE' or `T_NUM_STRING' in /home/tweb/public_html/forum/email.php on line 100

thats not helpful when I am trying to go do welcome emails :teeth:

$cirisme
January 24th 2004, 10:42 AM
That will be done today.

JardinPrayer
January 24th 2004, 01:23 PM
It sure is a rush to see my Garden and Bratz designs up here f'real! There are some tweaks coming for both, btw.

I'm having a great time figuring it all out...but noticing that the page load time is reminiscent of my dial up days...even with my cable modem, I'm waiting 15-20 seconds for a page to load. Is that just the price of all the eye candy or is there something I can do on this end to optimize?

yxboom
January 24th 2004, 01:28 PM
There is a ton of eyecandy so increase your cache size in your browser.