Board Index Concept [WIP]

[Decent_946]

Truly speaking, I had the same design in my mind. But wallah! You have all setup! I'm really grateful to see such a design. It's indeed way better then my visions. Your designing always inspires me to look for new concepts. Waiting for its release!

Just wanna know what layout style would topics be having? Same grid style as this or default table style?

[lurkalot]

Very nice looking design, hopefully we see it in theme site soon(TM).

That's the thing...I'm debating whether to be on a custom theme or just simply share the boardindex.template file hehhee... either way, I'm cool with it

Mick,  would it be possible for you make us a portal block snippet using this, please? I'm sure it would come in very handy. 

[Kindred]

this is, in fact, doable with almost all CSS in 2.1

[webtiryaki]

Hello nice thought parts are equal, a little trouble instead of a flexible design would not be better example.

http://smftheme.byethost18.com/index.php?theme=8

[Antechinus]

this is, in fact, doable with almost all CSS in 2.1

Well if you wanna be like that, I reckon it'd be doable in 2.0 as well. Not that there's much advantage in sticking with default markup in either case, but you could do it if you wanted to.

[Kindred]

well, the "advantage" as it were is less mucking about with code and potentially simple mods and upgrades.

[Antechinus]

Yeah, in theory. Although it depends how bonkers you have to go with CSS to get the result you want. CSS is mucking about with code too.

[Bloc]

It really doesn't matter which version it is..both are based on another concept of boardindex initially, so you have to change html or css anyway..or both. What is important is how much you can change and also benefit elsewhere, at least IMO. Neither version holds the advantage since the boardindex are such a special beast, not repeated anywhere else. Messageindex or display templates on the other hand....

But above all, I just think its great someone does new things in layout.

[Antechinus]

Yes board index is a bit of an odd one out, to some extent. But then if you have child boards your message index template will be displaying a combination of board index and message index. Personally I like them to look like they belong together. Although you could still do this anyway, by having different board presentation for the child boards on message index.

I can see Mick's board index working well if you only have a few boards, but on a site like this one, where you have stacks of boards, I think a more conventional arrangement is probably better.

[Gwenwyfar]

Interesting. One thing I had done before was use the fact you can do html in board's descriptions to turn the description of one board into two (or more) side-by-side sub-boards content. In this case the link to the parent board was not even available because it was a placeholder to consolidate both sub-boards.

[Bloc]

Yes board index is a bit of an odd one out, to some extent. But then if you have child boards your message index template will be displaying a combination of board index and message index. Personally I like them to look like they belong together. Although you could still do this anyway, by having different board presentation for the child boards on message index.

I can see Mick's board index working well if you only have a few boards, but on a site like this one, where you have stacks of boards, I think a more conventional arrangement is probably better.

One idea i played around with for a bit, was using containers like these for only the categories. The trouble was how to present the boards within..I landed on a (semi)normal boardindex, but with categories placed on the side of it - each one will show its boards when clicked upon, intially it just shows them all. 

[simplengmakina]

Nice fresh take on the board index concept! Tap friendly look.

[Antechinus]

The other thing you could do if you have a lot of boards is simplify the presentation. If you just had the board icon and the board name it would be a lot easier to scan the grid in a hurry, because it'd be less vulnerable to the TMI effect. With nothing much to distract you from the board names it should scan pretty well.

[Mick.]

I'm thinking a flip card or even a pull down drawer to display childboards on click instead of hover...

[Mick.]

Another approach regarding child boards? ... https://www.idesignsmf.com/index.php/page,page3163.html
Hover 'Plus' icon 

[aryansindy]

yes that's a nice design I have one like that too,
(Zaxo Theme1 SMF2.1RC2)

Demo :

Zaxo Theme1

[Mick.]

yes that's a nice design I have one like that too,
(Zaxo Theme1 SMF2.1RC2)

Demo :

Zaxo Theme1

Very cool dude

[Mick.]

This is completely stupid. I can't edit my post. Sigh.

[Antechinus]

Lol. Yeah it's blink and you miss it.

[Mick.]

Lol. Yeah it's blink and you miss it.

It grinds my gears lol