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Re: Changes coming to the site
Is there anyway to fix/upgrade the search function?? I was trying to find a photo I remembered, but can only remember it was in a bay silver thread, yet I can't search for either bay or silver because they are "too common". Same with some other fairly common words as well.
Anyway to fix that?
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OK, so here is what I've decided to do. I'm going to stick with drupal 6 for now and the current gallery2 integration but all the forums are going to be imported into drupal. I've been working out all the kinks on my home computer and will let you all know when the change is going to take place. It will be within the next month. I will have to shut down the forum for probably for a day to make the change over but all posts, signatures and private messages will be imported into drupal so you shouldn't have to worry about loosing anything. However, if you have something that you absolutely don't want to loose please make a copy of it.
I still plan on upgrading to drupal 7 down the road but the image gallery solutions currently offered with drupal 7 are not yet as stable or as robust as I would like them to be so that is on hold for the time being.
And Third Peppermint, sorry, I missed your post the first time around I would love some tips!
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Just an idea on the money side as I have no clue really but thought I'd throw it out, would people with colour tested stallions who they market on colour a lot pay to have small adverts next to 'example of x colour' pictures with a link to their website? or as has been mentioned advertising for general equine stuff/colour testing labs? do the labs advertise? surely this would be an ideal place for them to have an advert?
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Well I already found a few things I'll have to fix. For some reason the search box isn't showing up at the top of the content and that makes everything looks "squished". Don't know why that isn't showing up looks fine on my test computer. The loggin box also looks funny in firefox. I haven't even check how things look in IE yet.
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I wish I understood half of what you're talking about lol. You've got a big thumbs up from me for all the work you do on here to keep everything operating smoothly :)
Oh and I also think it would be a great idea for studs/equine related businesses to pay a nominal fee to advertise here. It is international advertising after all. I know I would certainly be happy to pay something to have my stud colt advertised on here :)
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I will be porting the forum tonight, tomarrow or wednesday or maybe all three. It will be down for however long it takes me to get things moved.
(There are some things I just can't test offline.)
Most of the functionality you love so much will be present out out of the box. Some of the pretties will not be. I will be adding them as we go along so that I can test and make sure things are working. So if you log on and the forum is down you will know why. Signatures should be present right away. Avatars will not be as I have to make some manual changes for them to show up.
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Thanks for doing all this work - it is appreciated though it will take away lots of your free time! ;)