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Post by shaxper on Jun 16, 2014 23:04:48 GMT -5
For those of you who missed it, Jasoomian has volunteered to design our frontpage and has been made a member (really the ONLY member at this point) of the CCF Design Team, and I've granted him limited admin powers to allow him to go on and mess with the frontpage. And this ALL happened yesterday. Seriously, way to be quick on your feet! Anyway, I LOVE the look! I'm very impressed with how quickly you pulled this together. It looks very professional and captures our flavor and content well!! The only problem is that I assume someone needs to manually do the review of the week each week. I've no doubt this is something any one of us can do for now, but who's going to be managing it eight years from now? Seriously, a big thank you to you! We're very lucky to have you here, doing this for us! |
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Post by Jasoomian on Jun 16, 2014 23:24:04 GMT -5
If it's ever too much of a burden to update, it should be just a couple clicks to set the forum index as the front page again.
I've sent you via PM the link to the page where you can edit the test front page. Just start clicking on things and see what you can see.
I think we need some more stuff in the sidebars and whatnot. I think I want to tweak some of the widths too... I'm still getting the hang of it... I'd like to see if there's another way to get up the rss news widget, since the one up there now is via another third-party site. You never know when those can crap out on you. But that was the first one I could get working tonight.
The featured post can be anything, we can change it to "post of the month" or "post of the day" instead of "review of the week." Any other ideas for what a front page should have?
So far I've just wanted to familiarize myself with some of the basic options and figure out some things. This reflects that.
One thing I don't like about the rss (and other non-rss I guess) feed proboards generates for latest posts -- it just links to the front page of the entire thread. I think it would be more intuitive to link to the last page.
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Post by shaxper on Jun 16, 2014 23:31:26 GMT -5
I think we need some more stuff in the sidebars and whatnot. Maybe we could link to an "About the CCF" page or something. I'm not a fan of busy for busy's sake, though. If we have the content we want, simple can work well. I'm definitely open to suggestions though and would love to see you play with adding more content if you feel like trying something out. Extraordinary work for one night. Take a bow before plunging back in to things  I like doing the review of the week, although maybe it would be easier on us to create a "spotlight review thread" and/or "spotlight discussion thread", solving both the problem of it linking to the first post of a thread and also taking the burden off of us to update EXACTLY every week. Lets hear from everyone else. We've got the design and the man to do it; now we need your ideas!  |
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Post by shaxper on Jun 16, 2014 23:38:31 GMT -5
As for which registrar/host to choose, I finally went with 1&1, I'll let you know how it goes. Please do! It looks like we have our frontpage (thanks to Jasoomian), so it becomes a question of whether it's possible to get a www.classiccomicsforum.com URL to redirect to the proboards frontpage AND improve our search results. If not, then we have some pros and cons to weigh. I can handle paying a few bucks a year to maintain a URL, but www.classiscomics.com and www.ccf.com are (inevitably) already taken , so we're not getting much bang for our buck with the URL alone. And I'm not sure it makes sense to incur additional fees to host a frontpage that is superfluous to the free frontpage we'll soon have just to increase our search engine results. |
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Post by Jasoomian on Jun 16, 2014 23:42:23 GMT -5
You can link directly to a post in the midst of the thread, as I did for the Boy Comics review. You have to hand-select it, though.
I was talking more about the "recently updated threads" column on the right. There may be a way to have that kind of feed link to the newer posts on the thread automatically. I'm just not sure. At least for logged-in members... We can click on the "NEW" icon to get to the latest unread posts on the trhead from the forum directory, so it seems there should be something similar.... I don't know...
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Post by shaxper on Jun 16, 2014 23:42:54 GMT -5
BTW, I just logged out of google and did a search for "Classic Comics Discussion". We were the fourth result (CBR being the first two), and I doubt getting a new URL is going to get us ahead of CBR. They pour a lot of money into their advertising and draw thousands to their site each day.
So maybe getting a custom URL is a moot point after all?
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Post by Jasoomian on Jun 16, 2014 23:45:51 GMT -5
I think it was discussed earlier on this thread, but... basically Google is all up in your business.
It is serving you results based on the fact that you've visited here often -- or at least clicked through to here from Google often.
The results would probably be different if you borrowed a stranger's computer at a coffee shop and ran the same search.
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Post by shaxper on Jun 16, 2014 23:47:05 GMT -5
I just may try that, but the fact that I was logged out and that it gave me CCF fourth when I practically live here might suggest otherwise.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2014 0:04:12 GMT -5
I just may try that, but the fact that I was logged out and that it gave me CCF fourth when I practically live here might suggest otherwise. The test will be to try it on a library computer or one of the computers at your school, try it on Bing and Yahoo etc. and see what the results are the various different ways to search for it on a computer where your history is not available to be read by the search engine, even if you are signed out of google. -M |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 17, 2014 5:39:40 GMT -5
I just may try that, but the fact that I was logged out and that it gave me CCF fourth when I practically live here might suggest otherwise. It goes by your history and cookies and such, so you'd have to be search after having just cleared that stuff to get a good read, or, as others have suggested, use a public computer (just don't log into your e-mail account first, Google, and others, keep track of you there as well). Nice work.. looks good. I'd agree wtih shax a little into square on the bottom would be nice, btw. |
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Post by coke & comics on Jun 17, 2014 17:04:34 GMT -5
My two cents:
*I don't really care for automatically moving content on pages as it distracts my eye (specifically the comic con news feed)
*I don't care for the comic con news feed
*Otherwise, I like it
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Post by Jasoomian on Jun 17, 2014 21:31:55 GMT -5
I'll see what I can do about making the rss news static. I tend to agree.
LINKS -- What classic-comic related websites / blogs should be linked ?
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Post by Action Ace on Jun 17, 2014 21:38:24 GMT -5
I'll see what I can do about making the rss news static. I tend to agree. LINKS -- What classic-comic related websites / blogs should be linked ? Mike's Amazing World of Comics (he's a member too) Grand Comics Database Classic Comics Forum at CBR |
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Post by Action Ace on Jun 17, 2014 21:40:28 GMT -5
Separate question from the information links...
Do we want links to places to buy classic comics such as Mile High and Mycomicshop?
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Post by shaxper on Jun 17, 2014 21:42:31 GMT -5
I would really rather not endorse any for-profit sites, which would include Mile High, Mycomicshop, and CBR. Give the little guys and the not-for-profits a chance, just like us Mike's Amazing World and the GCD are excellent calls. |
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