SMF Helper

[Bigguy]

Yeah it was a bit bold I admit that. The site is going to be around for sometime so hopefully that will lend to its stability. Along with that, SMF Helper itself has a very good reputation for support and community involvement. The community part of course has to be built back up a but but that will come I hope.

[Bigguy]

I've been playing with SMF a bit and css3....not much but just tryin things out. Can anyone tell me if when you mouse over the 4 images on the front page they rotate using IE. It works in FF but not sure why IE doesn't pick it up.

http://www.smfhelper.com/index.php

[margarett]

In IE8 they do not (but it is expected, IE8 has no idea what CSS3 is )

[Bigguy]

They didn't work in IE10 either, hmmm. More playin is in order I guess. Thanks for checkin that.

[far2slow]

not tested but have you tried to target IE -ms-transform: rotate();
depending on how much you want this to work on all browsers take a look at sandpaper
   

[Bigguy]

Thanks for that...doesn't look like it works though. What is sandpaper. ??

[Bigguy]

I said I wasn't going to do this but I did. I restored SMF Helper back to it's original state. it's back on the original url with the original database. Unfortunately, anyone who signed up on the recently installed SMF Helper has lost their accounts. I think it was only 5 or 6 though. To those few, please feel free to sign up again.

[gingir]

Hi Bigguy,

I like your site.

What I don't understand about your forum and by the way this forum too is why friendly URLs are not used.

Perhaps I am missing something but if you were better indexed on search engines you would be able to reach - and therefore help - more people.

Just my 2 cents!

[Arantor]

Because friend URLs don't actually help being indexed. The friendly URLs are generated from the topic titles and the number of people here, at least, who put in titles like just 'Help' mean that there would be no meaningful URLs in it.

Note that SMF does not offer particularly friendly URLs to start with.

[gingir]

Because friend URLs don't actually help being indexed.

I agree about the "help" titles, that's why they should be discouraged, but having titles in URLs does help getting better indexed.

Just as an example the "what verson of SMF is better?" thread I have read @ smfhelper.com [nofollow]

However it is not my intention to hijack this thread so I'll leave it here.

@Bigguy

I like your site and it seems to be on a roll already

I would get "Helping you along the way" aligned with the title though.

[Arantor]

I don't want to argue with you but there is far more evidence to support the fact that having titles in URLs does not help better indexing.

[Bigguy]

Before SMF Helper was closed and the url lost, the google ranking for this site was up there with this site. If you searched google for anything to do with help for SMF, the two sites that would be up top was mine and this one. After a lot of changing the url and redirects in various places due to circumstances beyond my control I now have what is known as a dead site. it is going to take a lot to build it up again but I will. One way or the other.

Btw, I'm glad you like it.

[AllanD]

I really like what you have done with the site. Looks great, the slight modification to the the 2.1 theme are very nicely done.

[Bigguy]

Thanks man, your suggestions have came in very handy. There are still changes to the info center I am going to make so please keep that in mind. I was gonna do that tonight....well I might still really. it's not that late. Thanks for the comments though.

[Werldklass]

Thanks for help everyone.

[Bigguy]

Your very welcome.

[Bigguy]

It's been over 8 years SMFH has been around:

8 years...yup, that's how long we have been around. This site has been helping people for over 8 years. I really have to say that it has been a complete and udder delight to have a site up and running this long providing any type of support for people out there that may need it.

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[Masterd]

Congratulations!

[Bigguy]

Thank you very much.

[Justyne]

How awesome

Congrats!