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 Post subject: Google Site search on the frontpage
PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:44 pm 
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Since the search function of the board is someties a bit skewy we've added a google site search on the front page:

http://www.doom3world.org/index.php

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 Post subject: Re: Google Site search on the frontpage
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Wow, this will be useful indeed 8)

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 Post subject: Re: Google Site search on the frontpage
PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:54 am 
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never did like the way google display stuff, or their searches, so odds are i'll still use the phpbb "search" function, but nice.

possible issue: you have the "google search", then a line of text saying to visit the forums/mod wiki, then an ad. It took some searching to find that line of text because it's sandwiched between two google things. Maybe move the line, possible to a slightly bigger font, right above the new posts.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Site search on the frontpage
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The Happy Friar wrote:
never did like the way google display stuff, or their searches, so odds are i'll still use the phpbb "search" function, but nice.


Me neither, but Google has acquired a sort of reputation in building search engines ;)
It's just an additional option which can get fine tuned later to adjust the display of search results.

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possible issue: you have the "google search", then a line of text saying to visit the forums/mod wiki, then an ad. It took some searching to find that line of text because it's sandwiched between two google things. Maybe move the line, possible to a slightly bigger font, right above the new posts.


That's true and related to the fact how strangely I wrote the front end for the board a few years ago (in early 2003) and while it's still cool to see it working without an error, I didn't put enough forethought into template editing. It's html snippets all over the place.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Site search on the frontpage
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One thing - apparently nobody has noticed or wants to notice:

You can attach images now to your posts
viewforum.php?f=30

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like how you made the text between the google parts bigger. :) and another image for ya...

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EDIT: any way to set it up to always have a link for an image?

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 Post subject: Re: Google Site search on the frontpage
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The Happy Friar wrote:
like how you made the text between the google parts bigger. :) and another image for ya...

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EDIT: any way to set it up to always have a link for an image?


I'm glad you're happy, one satisfied, a thousand more to go :)

I don't think the board provides this functionality. Surely not too hard to code with a phpBB mod, but before starting to modify the site heavily I want to wait for a gold release of phpBB3 (so far it's only a release candidate).

What I pretty much dislike is that images like the one you've attached open without any framework in the same window.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Site search on the frontpage
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holy crap... i think you made the link to the forums very visible now. :D

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The Happy Friar wrote:
holy crap... i think you made the link to the forums very visible now. :D


Still screwing around - they're supposed to be a little smaller :)

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