[Freddy]

Looks like it went very well, congrats   and you kept the cool smilleys too 

What else would you like to see restored ?

Many thanks

Tiny Portal, embedded YouTube videos, SMF site map,

And the spam filters

All of that is now done with the exception of TP.  I'm trying out the new TP on my test forum first, but I am going to get Mav's Digital Girl story up and running first.

Links to the Chatterbot Collection and Datahopa now appear within the main board as redirects, as will the DG story later.

[claude2]

Dear Freddy, Aidream' s is now in format flash, after my idea, flash job with ' MetaScript ', it is a similar window, has this one, and favours it, it is the interactivity, of a link, either, Script, Flash, and broadcasting, or the account, on a topic, is, in format SWF, GIF, video from the computer, or only, MP3. Numerous possibilities with Flash.

[Freddy]

I don't plan on using Flash for the site at the moment Claude but thanks for the tip.  Maybe some day though...

[Freddy]

The Digital Girl story is now back online.  I moved it to it's own page and knocked up a quick design.  Maviarab will be working on a dedicated site in a couple of months too.

The story had an average of about 7,500 views in the old format 

Look in the main forum for the link at the bottom, under friends...

Or click here : http://aidreams.co.uk/Digital_Girl/

[Freddy]

Just updated the splash/landing page to fit in with things a little more.

See what you think : http://aidreams.co.uk/

[Data]

Although I doubt many members hardly ever see that page, it looks neat, tidy and professional to me.

Good job 

[DaveMorton]

Generally speaking, when I refer someone to the forums here (and I've done so a goodly number of times), I send them to the main page, since there's more to this place than just the forums. the only exception is my links page on my site, but nobody reads that page much, except for the search engine crawlers. 

[Freddy]

Thanks Dave, much appreciated 

[DaveMorton]

Any time, Freddy. It's the least I can do, in thanks for having such an invaluable resource available. 

[Maviarab]

Just to update...

Everything working fine for me here.  Gallery looks great, love it.

Thanks again for getting the story back up...even though it's a little dead in the water at the oment, but have talked to your recently regarding that anway.

For everyone else, have my own site (the old digital Girl domain)...but that too was also hacked some months back (last year) and I really have not had the time to look into it.  My course is coming to end so I am hoping to get my site finished and up and running fully this summer, where the new revised and edited version of the story will go along with new chapters etc.

freddy and I have discussed what to do with the current version, and we have nt really come up with any concrete ideas yet, but it might be nice to keep her where she currently is on this site, and I can always post here and link to the new chapters...but whatever....thats 2 or 3 months away yet.

Finally, thanks for all your hard work freddy, it truly is appreciated, and once again, the site is currently looking great

[Art]

I was away for the weekend and just logged on to check things and to see if anyone missed me!

OK...kidding...

What really grabbed my attention was the NEW Landing / Splash plage (as opposed to the Splash landing page...oops!).

I REALLY LOVE IT!! Nice and clean, quite professional and tells it all! A very likable page and after all, the first page to
a site can set the tone for the rest of the user's viewing experience.

Very well done!!!
 

[Freddy]

@Mav, glad to hear things are working right and you like the new gallery.  We couldn't miss out on the story so I was happy to rehouse it.  I'm thinking maybe we should just have one story on your site in the future.  Reason is that it will be confusing having two versions of the same story floating around.

Good luck with the course, I know you can do it 

Art, I'm really glad you like the new landing page, I spent quite a long time messing around with designs until I found something I thought looked good.  Many thanks

And finally, we now have a new home page that I had been working on.  I will add further things to the home page over the next few days.  So far you should see a welcome message, online people, news, aggregated news (from six sources) and the latest from the chatterbot collection.

I've decided not to use Tiny Portal at the moment as I don't think we really need it.  I can code custom things, like I have with the homepage, myself.  Really I want to develop my programming skills, so a few new features will be coded just by me.

[claude2]

It is better now! Aidreams, in a new style!

[Art]

See Freddy, all this time you were just a diamond in the rough...waiting to apply some polish and shine!!

Perhaps a side order of professional web design is in the cards for you...or would you just prefer some chips with that?! LOL!

[Data]

It’s all looking good

I was just thinking about the old days of the web, where people’s web sites had something like.

Hello my name is John and this site is all about me

Hehe… remember?

Haven’t we come a long way since then. 

Anyway, are you up for some constructive criticism? I hope so.

One of the things that attracted me to AiDreams was the recent topics block being used in TP, the topics were on screen even when looking through the forum and navigation between them was a single click and easy.

Now im clicking back to the forum index all the time to read the recent posts.

Maybe you can come up with something like that for the new layout. I know its not all about me, but I do miss it.