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By LiquidWeb on
While playing with Drupal 6 I impressed with new theming options and decided to prepare a generic theme and installation profile for forum sites.
Now I achieved tableless forum theme which is pretty useful for SEO stuff. I also achieved more vbulletin/IPB/PHPBB like interface. I am going to share that theme with Drupal community but I want to be sure that it fits (almost) everybodys needs. So I wonder what would you like to see in your forums.
first from me
- Basic WYSIWYG editor for message posting
Comments
subscribing
My needs:
theme
- vbulletin/IPB/PHPBB look
I think that it must be differentiated what is doable with a theme, and what should be done with installation profile (modules).
Installation profile (modules)
- WYSIWYG (tinymce and fckeditor).
-Email notifications of new comments ( subscriptions module)
- Forum administrator/moderartor (article on http://www.lullabot.com/articles/private_forums_in_drupal_forum_access_v...)
I think also that duplicated work should be avoided, there is an advanced forum module, i don't know very well what it does, and tried to use it but it was too complicated for me, non developer.
I know advanced forum module
I know advanced forum module and appreciate Michelle for her work but mine is just theming instead of an extra module. And my primary concern is having a "tableless" forum rather than adding extra features to core forum module. I am asking things like WYSIWYG editor because of Drupal installation profile because I would like to see such an option when I was a complete beginner.
My primary concerns while preparing that installation profile are
1- It definitely should be CSS controlled and tableless so it can be accessible by much more people and people can change theme without effort.
2- It should be XHTML/CSS valid
3- Performance is too important for big sites so it shouldn't have any unused/unnecessary modules
4- It should be upgradable so there shouldn't be any core hacking
5- Generated file size should be as small as possible since even 1K per page is important for big sites (extra bandwith etc.)
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You've got a pretty nice theme started. You should link to it so the others can see it. As for modules, I started a list. It could use some fleshing out, but it's a good start.
Michelle
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