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Arne

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« on: March 24, 2002, 01:29:27 PM »
I have spent the day making a few changes and a few new options. I have already made the PM thingy from the members profile and today I added Top10 posters and Lasts 20 members seen

I always like to look at stats for some reason, so I made thes two available to members. I closed them for non-members. And while I was at it, closing things for non-members, I also closed the viewing of profiles and the member list as well. There is no reason why non-members should have access to these anyway.

I guess everyone have noticed the new option to subscribe to newsletter. It is located on the top of the forum. Non-members can also subscribe to this. And one can unsubscribe; which will generate an email which must be confirmed in order to fully unsubscribe automatically. This is so that others can not unsubscribe you.

I have not planned what the newsletter should be about, and I have not added anyone to it as default, since I do not believe in forced subscriptions. But I guess maybe announcements about new releases of programs, configuration files and such might be a good idea. Suggestions are as always welcome.

And last but not least I wish that everyone says a pray for our good friend JakBeNymble and his family, and ask for happy and good days for him and his beloved ones. It is not often I ask people to do anything for me, but I would like everyone to do this for me. Even though he has many other things to think about, he always has  time to cheer everybody else up. God Bless him and his family!

Have a nice day, week, year and life, everyone!!!



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« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2002, 02:37:39 PM »
While I had my html editor open anyway I also made a page showing the latest 10 new members. Before we only could see the last one who had joined. And I added my views counter at the bottom as well. It was invisible to everybody but myself, but I turned it visible for a while.



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« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2002, 03:50:33 PM »
And before I shut down the html editor I made a female voice remind you about new mail in your private message box. It is often easy to forget that little red number telling you about new private messages.

I used this code here, just in case you need to know:
<embed src="gotmail.wav" width=5 height=5 autostart=true>
<noembed>
<bgsound src="gotmail.wav">
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« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2002, 01:01:06 PM »
As the database grew and more and more members have joined (although I delete non-active memeber after a couple of months if they never have posted) it has become more and more difficult to remember from day to day, which post it was I had the intentions of answering. I therefore added the option to bookmark topics today. And I think this is a good option to have.

In between, I am pretty surpised how well this access database can stand up to the load. It now has 28 tables and is becoming a real challange to maintain. But so would any other database with so many tables :-)

Anyway, here are the bookmarks. Enjoy! (admin your bookmarks from the bottom menu and add bookmarks from within a topic - remember to delete them when you no longer need them.)



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« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2002, 06:59:11 PM »
A most excellent addition Arne. My compliments go out to you sir!!!

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« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2002, 10:57:44 PM »
Hi Arne,

This bookmark function is really practical, thanks
However, is it possible to show more than two each page?


 
 

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« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2002, 11:55:03 PM »
Sorry about that. I had 2 there just to test the page function when I tested the thing. I have set it to 10 now. Thanks for reminding me!

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« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2002, 07:06:54 PM »
I really like the stats... then again I am a bit of a stat freak ^.^

This is really a great -- and continually improving -- forum, glad I found it!

 
 

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« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2002, 07:12:57 PM »
It is almost a shame that you can't see my interface to the board. I work much more on that than I do on the visible interface. It is so cool, in my own opinion of course. I am glad you like the new option. I am also keen on stats.


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