Major Progress

The site is up and running. I haven’t been documenting everything that I have been doing, as I have been doing a lot of experimenting with the interfaces. The interface is very easy to use and the website truly is feature packed. I will try and recap what I have done with the site, but it is all very straight forward and easy to use.

I enabled most of the modules, including the Blog, Forum, Upload, modules, and given the users permission to use them. This is found under the site building menu.

I created a general discussion forum, and a sub forum for technical support. Only administrators can create entire forums and arrange the forum trees, but any user can create topics and post within those forums. I created a hello thread in the general discussion forum and uploaded a picture.

I began to customize the user menu’s and side bars. Now on the right pane I have a list of the top 5 most recent Blog posts and the top 5 active forum topics. Users can jump to these posts by clicking them, and they will update with each page jump or refresh. On the left hand site, I created a menu called “jump to” which will immediately take you to the forums or your personal Blog. There is also a search form on the left pane that automatically searches all blogs and forum posts.

Some of the other settings that I have set are:

- Set maximum file upload reolution to 1600x1600

- Limit maximum file size per upload to 10mb

- Limit total file size per user to 100mb

- Set Timezone

- Allow users to create new accounts without Administrator approval

- Create a forum and a sub forum

- Allow users to modify their own themes

- Allow users to upload files to the Forums and Blogs

That’s all for now. I will do some more fine tuning and report back.

Ryan