Getting my forum looking nice and other newbie questions :)

[kat]

Notepad's... er... well... how can I put this?

Oh, say what you mean, K@...

It's CRAP!

Wordpad's better, but, as Illori said, Notepad++, Programmer's notepad (They have a rather handy portable version, too), TextPad (My fave) and various others are FAR superior.

[timetraveller]

Oh good - I'm glad it's not just me 

I will look into those others when I'm a bit more awake - then I might be able to see what I'm supposed to be dealing with a bit better

[kat]

[hamsterdaddy]

@ timetraveller, I can't imagine running a forum without a portal/home page. With a good portal your possibilities are endless.

I installed Simple Portal into my first site 8 months ago; it's great software.

[timetraveller]

I got SimplePortal a few days ago

Still got a long way to go with my site but it went "live" a couple of days ago so dealing with bits of that mostly at the moment.

Got the TextPad editor. Haven't had a chance to look at it yet though.

[kat]

When you start, go to the "Configuration" menu and "Preferences".

LOADS to set, there.

[timetraveller]

I've done a teensy bit of setting up - but I'm saving my Portal questions for their site :-)

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Hi timetraveller Everything fine and dandy, or do you still need assistance with something?

[timetraveller]

Relatively fine and dandy. The forum's running great and has been very easy to manage etc.

My laptop imploded under the strain (well maybe it was something else!) so I have restriced PC access at the moment (new computer should be arriving any day now) so I haven't been able to do much more than keep the forum buzzing.

In the meantime I've been thinking about the home page and its look. I'm very happy with the forum - a few minor tweaks - couple of changes of colour, a change of font maybe, and a nice header and that will be done.

But I'm not happy with the home page. I'm considering other options - options suitable for the "code-tweaking-phobic". I've looked at some site building software (XSitePro and others) and am likely to go down this route if it will integrate nicely with SMF.

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Then you'll probably want to get familiar with this board http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?board=33.0

[timetraveller]

I've delved in there a few times and it all looks horribly scary  But I've posted a new topic in there