Getting organized for the new year!

[Captain Comics]

Now that we're in 3.0 and have a general idea of what we're dealing with, I'd like to tackle some things I've been putting off. 

The big one, that affects the most Legionnaires, is that I'd like to add some tabs (The black links at the top of the page, like the recently added "James Bond") for subjects with lots and lots of separate threads, like Doctor Who and (I think) Dark Shadows. Or others, that Legionnaires suggest. Godzilla? CK's annual "New Season" posts? Just spit-balling here.

The flip side of this is a single thread with lots of responses. I don't see any reason to give something like the "Invaders" thread, which  (I think) was one, single long thread, a separate tab or sub-tab. Just the stuff where there's a lot of material scattered all over. That's what prompted me to create "James Bond" as a category; every time I wanted to find an old thread I remembered, I had no idea where to look for it. So I put them all in one basket. (Well, all of them that the search function and Google found. There may be more I haven't found.)

If we get too many tabs, we can shift some tabs into "sub-tabs." We don't have any examples on the board of this function yet. But with sub-tabs, we could, for example, make it so that when you hover over "Movies and TV," you'd get a dropdown with "Doctor Who" and "Dark Shadows" in it, instead of on the home page directly. I'd like to put "James Bond" there, too, but we'd probably have to change the main tab from "Movies and TV" to something like "Genre Media" or "Books, Movies TV".

I can also add landing pages to each category and sub-category, which I think would make us look more professional. But that would be a lot of work, so I'm not just going to jump in and do it. I need to know you guys want it.

Alternatively, I could do nothing at all and sail along as we have. 

 

[The Baron]

You didn't miss any, but the title fr "The Daleks' Mster Plan"  got truncated.  You or Jeff will need to correct that.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

I went ahead and corrected the title.

BTW, I noticed your discussion of "The Ark" has "SPOIKERS" instead of "SPOILERS." ;)

The board will be so much easier to use and reference when we're done.

I'll tell you what would really help, and that is for each discussion to be bumped to the top within each tab every time a comment is added. I know we've discussed this before and you said it wasn't an option available to you, but I'll bet someone at the NING help desk (or whatever) could help with that. If there is one overriding precept when switching platforms, it is never to lose functionality.

 

[The Baron]

Thanks, i'll go in and correct that.

[The Baron]

I've moved all of my threads under The Second Doctor" .  However, there's a bunch of Jeff's:

1. The Power of the Daleks
2. The Highlanders
3. The Underwater Menace
4. The Moonbase
5. The Macra Terror
6. The Faceless Ones
7. The Evil of the Daleks
8. The Abominable Snowmen
9. The Ice Warriors
10. Fury from the Deep

[The Baron]

Now I've moved all of my threads under "The Third Doctor".   Here is annupdated lit of all the ones the need moving that I can't move. New additions are in boldface.

Jeff

1. The Power of the Daleks
2. The Highlanders
3. The Underwater Menace
4. The Moonbase
5. The Macra Terror
6. The Faceless Ones
7. The Evil of the Daleks
8. The Abominable Snowmen
9. The Ice Warriors
10. Fury from the Deep
11. The Claws of Axos
12. Carnival of Monsters

Henry

1. Inferno

 

 

[Richard Willis]

I should have asked this question when we were transitioning to the new Ning version. 

It's not the end of the world, but it would be nice to have the letter/word strike-out ability, which has disappeared from the posting options "ribbon."

Such as     “T̶h̶e̶ ̶h̶o̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶f̶i̶r̶e̶”    (pasted from a Google search)

Can Ning do this?

[Peter Wrexham]

Yes, you can do it, but it's slightly hidden, and only appears under the "HTML" view.  Click on the HTML button on the options ribbon, and you'll see an S (for strikeout) in addition to the B (bold), I (italic) and U (underline) font options.

There's also a " option that produces a blockquote like this.

I don't know why Ning doesn't include these buttons on the standard (non-HTML) view!

[The Baron]

I've begin moving my threads under "The Fourth Doctor: ". I've gottenthrough  "The Invasion of Time"   Below is an updated list of oter people's threads for Secoind , Third and Fourth DOctors that I cannpt move.  New additions are in boldface.

 

Jeff

1. The Power of the Daleks
2. The Highlanders
3. The Underwater Menace
4. The Moonbase
5. The Macra Terror
6. The Faceless Ones
7. The Evil of the Daleks
8. The Abominable Snowmen
9. The Ice Warriors
10. Fury from the Deep
11. The Claws of Axos
12. Carnival of Monsters
13. The Brain of Morbius

Henry

1. Inferno
2. The Ark in Space
3. The Hand of Fear
4. The Deadly Assassin
5. The Talons of Weng-Chiang
6. The Invisible Enemy
7. Image of the Fendahl

[The Baron]

I've moved over the rest of my threads under "The Fourth Doctor" Below is an updated list of other people's threads that I can't move.  As always, the new additions are in boldface.

Jeff

1. The Power of the Daleks
2. The Highlanders
3. The Underwater Menace
4. The Moonbase
5. The Macra Terror
6. The Faceless Ones
7. The Evil of the Daleks
8. The Abominable Snowmen
9. The Ice Warriors
10. Fury from the Deep
11. The Claws of Axos
12. Carnival of Monsters
13. The Brain of Morbius
14. The Keeper of Traken
15. Logopolis

Henry

1. Inferno
2. The Ark in Space
3. The Hand of Fear
4. The Deadly Assassin
5. The Talons of Weng-Chiang
6. The Invisible Enemy
7. Image of the Fendahl
8. The Ribos Operation
9. The Armageddon Factor
10. The Leisure Hive
11. Full Circle
12. State of Decay

[The Baron]

I've moved over my threads under "The Fifth Doctor" Below is an updated list of other people's threads that I can't move.  As always, the new additions are in boldface.

Jeff

1. The Power of the Daleks
2. The Highlanders
3. The Underwater Menace
4. The Moonbase
5. The Macra Terror
6. The Faceless Ones
7. The Evil of the Daleks
8. The Abominable Snowmen
9. The Ice Warriors
10. Fury from the Deep
11. The Claws of Axos
12. Carnival of Monsters
13. The Brain of Morbius
14. The Keeper of Traken
15. Logopolis

Henry

1. Inferno
2. The Ark in Space
3. The Hand of Fear
4. The Deadly Assassin
5. The Talons of Weng-Chiang
6. The Invisible Enemy
7. Image of the Fendahl
8. The Ribos Operation
9. The Armageddon Factor
10. The Leisure Hive
11. Full Circle
12. State of Decay
13. Castrovalva
14. The Visitation
15. Earthshock
16. Elightenment