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Started working on getting the plugin developer community site up and running and I came up with this cool idea of creating a banner image of an overloaded powerstrip with the plugged in power cables going off the right and left side of the image.

Should be a rather ironic image of what the site hopes to accomplish... lol :roll:

Anycase since it's going to take some 3D work, I thought I'd create a WIP thread for you guys to see it unfold. :)

BTW, apologies for the site looking like crap at the moment. Turns out Mambo won't work right on my server so going to have to find a different CMS... *sigh* Would've been nice if Mambo had worked since that integrates nicely with both the shopping cart software and the SMF forum software I'm using. Ah well....

Will post some wires later.
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Do we want a little older powerstrip maybe?
I have one in my basement that's from a few years back and kinda overloaded that I could model off of.
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Do you plan to give also Links for older PlugIns? In this case take a look on my site (see my Signature).
I still use TrueSpace 6.6
Link: My Youtube Channel
Link: www.DesignDevil.de - Plugins, Tutorials and more about TrueSpace 6.6
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@ DD, it's going to focus on 7.6 plugins and development. But I can definitely give you a link! :D

@ Robert, sure any reference photos would be great. :)

Gonna install Joomla real quick and see if that has the same problems... then I probably need to call it a day.... :bananasad:

Edit:
Woot! Joomla install worked great. No probs setting up add on modules this time. So looks like I can start making the site functional tomorrow. The forum is already set up, I just need to give it a matching template once I get the template for the main site designed. :ugeek:

I might decide to go live with the built-in templates though so that the community can get up and running making and selling plugins now while the interest is still high. :bananatyping:

Catch you guys in the morning! :bananacheers:
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Does this include DX plugins as well?
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Sure I don't see why not. :)
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Right here we go, two reference pictures.

And yes, that is in fact what it looks like behind the audio system box, I didn't change anything before taking the pictures.
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Ah yes, nothing like a modern 7 channel receiver. :mrgreen: Now that I think about it, that's probably how it looks behind ours as well. :lol:

Good news about the site. I finally got the friggin' shopping cart software to work (and with SEF enabled :shock: ), going to add Community Builder tomorrow and see if that blows up the site. Then I need to decide if I want to stay with SMF for the forum or use Fireboard which integrates directly into Community Builder. SMF has a lot more features like paypal subscriptions which I've already set up... Of course once I get it all set up I've been thinking about migrating it to another account to consolidate and save on hosting costs... I'm sure that'll be fun... lol. :?

So it'll probably be a another day before I can model this out. :lol:
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Jack, what brand coffee do you drink?..I want some :worship:
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LOL! Nah the difference is that unlike Scotty in Star Trek, I need to learn multiply my time estimates by 4 to get them to be realistic instead of to appear to be a "miracle worker"... lol :lol:

BTW, not usually a Coffee guy, used to be addicted to Caffeine so bad that I'd get shakes and withdraw symptoms if I didn't have soda or tea. Got bad enough that I started getting headaches too, so went cold turkey about 10 years back and don't do soda anymore. Took about 2 weeks to get over the withdraw symptoms but after that it was amazing to realize just how nasty soda products really taste. To give an idea of how bad my Caffeine addition was, I was going through multiple 48 pack soda cases every few days back in college... :shock: Guess that's better than the kind of drugs most college students do lol... :roll:

Say anyone got a Jolt Cola around...? :P
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I am a coffee super freak...it is unfortunate really...I kicked the smoking though...for about 6 months now.....
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Jack Edwards wrote:
BTW, apologies for the site looking like crap at the moment. Turns out Mambo won't work right on my server so going to have to find a different CMS... *sigh* Would've been nice if Mambo had worked since that integrates nicely with both the shopping cart software and the SMF forum software I'm using. Ah well....

Will post some wires later.
Have you tried Joomla? I have a lot less problems with that one.. big issue is both are feckin spam magnets.. I'm ready to bin mine because of that

MKportal is quite good, it a doodle to smf with, it did have oscommerce as a component, I dunno if it was updated to the newer portal though,
It doesn't look as nasty as the php nuke cms
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Yup. It's Joomla now. I've got VM cart and CB integrated as well. VM was a bitch and I had to use the old legacy 1.1.2 version to get it to work. Adding Kunena board now. I'll keep the SMF board for the private dev portion since it supports subscriptions and will keep the dev types happier. The Kunena board integrates nicely with Community Builder, so I'm using that for the users to use as public forums.

I think I'm getting close to done setting the site up. I like the template that it came with and I've only made a few php modifications to solve some IE8 issues, so graphically all I need to do now is make a transparent gif logo and some banner images for it to flip between on the top bar. (The reason for the thread :lol: )

Pretty crazy the kind of full featured community site that you can create these days with just a week's worth of work and a load of free software.
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IE8 is a nightmare, i did a flash xmas card for the TS forum, and yesterday I digging about trying to find it and opened it in IE8 and all the animation went a bit funky! I have no idea how I could possibly fix that! hopefully re compiling it in a newer version of Flash will do, the new one adds a java script, to iron out the browser issues

I like the default Joomla theme, I used Artisteer for the one I have now but can I hell get the banners and news flash's to show
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One of the things I like about Joomla is that in the template section there's a preview icon you can click on which loads a version of your webpage with all the placement locations for that template showing as visible text. Really helps with module placement.

The problem I had with IE was that they fixed some of the IE7 bugs, but the script was checking for IE gte 7. (greater or equal) So simply removing the "gte" solved the problem.

I gotta admit the Kunena board looks sweet, it's fully integrated, and it feels fast. Since the forums are going to be where a lot of the community and development coordinating is going to happen, look and feel is important. So I decided to go with just the Kunena board and I'm going to remove SMF. So tomorrow I need to integrate a subscription component. :? The really cool thing is that with the new approach everything is integrated into one logon - the cart, the forums, and the article/community/commenting part.
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Yes I use the Kunena board and I have to agree its really quick, mine has a small bug, if you click on the recent new members name the page loads without the style sheet
Another one on the Joomla side is if you try to upload new media, the browse files button disappears, it does it in admin and if you are adding a new article, it doesn't seem to be a browser issue for me it does it in FF, ie6/7/8, if you stop the page loading before the box has time to bugger off it does work lol

I didn't realize you could do that with the layout, I'll have a look.. TBH I messed up my other site and just threw the Joomla online so I had something , I don't have a great deal of bandwidth and I was wanting an easy way to make people register to play the Awakening game and stop the casual traffic playing it just for the hell of it and leaving me with no site for 2 weeks lol

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