So a couple of weeks ago I decided to write my first VB mod, it isn't much yet, basically a digg clone where registered users can submit stories and then vote on them. The ranking is determined by the rate of the votes, not number. Let me know what you think, to submit or vote on a story you have to be signed in. Also there is a discuss link that you will see when signed in so that if you liked the story, or hated it, you can start a thread in the forums, when a thread is started for anyone story the discuss link simply points you to the existing thread. The link to the mod is www.thepartylive.com/forums/tplnews.php It is still in the beginning stages but it is good enough to make live for now. If you have any comments, concerns, suggestions, or just some good constructive crit please let me have it. This is my first mod and I would like to make it a good one PS is anyone cares this is the 6000th review thread
The title banner isn't as visible as it could be -- which may be what you want. The grey colour scheme is elegant, but a bit boring. The black-on-dark-grey text is a bit hard to see. Personal peeve: the gradient, "3D" look of the table cells bugs me; I like flat.
Hmmm, I am going to have to look into the style changes, that is something that I was hoping to leave until the next vb update, thanks for the crit. I took a look but that seems to be a mod that takes the news from the forum, I already have something like that on my front page called "Columns" Also this mod is links to OTHER stories on the web, similar to the way that digg or even threadwatch works. Slowly From some advice from a buddy of mine I started developing the templates. That, for a coder, is the hardest part. Then I used a couple of threads over at vb.org that explain about the different functions that you can use for the integration in the the vb usertables and permissions. From there I just started with the different functions, one for displaying all the stories in the order I wanted, then one for voting, one for admin, etc.... Then I developed a update script so that the rating would not be done on ever page load but rather they could be connected to a cron. Right now they are updated on every vote, but that will change if the server load starts to creep. Hope that helps you some, it seems daunting when you start but when you get into it you realize that it is not that bad.
Thanks, Was there anything that you think I should change? or are you simply trying to inflate your post count with one liners.
Whoa now. Somebody call the wit police! Since when did 400 posts enable one to call out a forum newb? Perhaps add graphics to correspond to the vote tally.