What better way to kick off the portal forums then to get some feedback from the users about what they want to see in the portal. After all, it is made by UBB users, for UBB users. In this thread you may post your thoughts and ideas for features to be included in the UBB.portal.

I'll start it off by explaining what we have planned/done.

- News
- Polls
- Who's Online (PNTF)
- Calendar
- Reviews
- Styles Integration
- Latest/Most Active Topics
- Login

Please let us know if we are missing a feature that you would like to see included, and most importantly if you think you can help us creating some of these features contact TheX, Allen or I to join the Sourceforge team!

Here's my list:

-PM's
-Statistics of some sort. (Including latest member to join, top poster and top thread starter maybe)
-Search Box.

Thats all I can think of right now.

Please add:
-A list of the users, that were online during the last 24 hours.
-I think it you should be able to manage your whole site with it

How about a search option?

One that searches the forums you already have but how about a webcrawler of some kind.
You know like google. I dont have too much experience with things like that but if its too much trouble to code dont worry

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Lord Dexter:
Here's my list:

-PM's
-Statistics of some sort. (Including latest member to join, top poster and top thread starter maybe)
-Search Box.

Thats all I can think of right now.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I like the stats and search box ideas....If stats isn't possible, then I'd like at least a "Our newest member is:" thing and a "Registered Members: *insert number here*" thing. Search box, would be self explenatory, as it's....well, just a search box.

~Jon

Something like the $RegisteredMemberLine from the UBB if you can't go too deep with Statistics. And maybe UBBNews interegated into it too.

how about reviews like post and php nuke?

*edit* oh yeah and banner support for when we have our sites sponsered *edit*

How about a Web Links option. So we can add a Yahoo type links section. This hopefully will be similur to PHPNukes version (Categories, sub-categories, sup-sub-categories, link checking, etc..)

Intergration of postnuke modules would be nice.

I'd like to see the recent visitors extended to cover the rest of the website as well.

If this is going to be database-driven, possibly a PHP Nuke -> UBB.Portal conversion script? I know it probably can't be done, but it's just a suggestion

Some excellent suggestions here. Keep them coming. I like the sounds of the search box, I will add it to the to do list.

How about personal links section.
Sort of like my style but each logged in user has the option to add their own links to the page so that if they do have the site as a front page like me they dont have to click on the adress bar and start typing they just select their links from the link section.

I like the search box as well... that one hasn't been mentioned much recently. A web-links addition would be nice as well... could be used as an affiliate-type-links section, a members link section, etc...

Comment on article (something like CNET/ZDNets)
Links (something like Gossamer Threads's)
Downloads
Frequently Asked Questions

i would definately like to see an image gallery. That would help my sites a lot!

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by TheX:
I'd like to see the recent visitors extended to cover the rest of the website as well.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'd love that too, if it's possible.

Why not use SourceForge for this?
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=442697&group_id=45372&func=browse

Make use of what ya got. Also somewhat more organized.

could you make the templates easily created and maybe even able to run off the ubb one so we dont have to re create our ubb templates?

My suggestions are

- Downloads ,with comments,official homepage and how many users downloaded the file until now

- History Database, where all the post news will be automatically saved in a database and the user could search them by month. ex July 2002, May 2000 etc

- A counter where it shows how many users are online in the site and in the forum. Also which has been the biggest number of users connected on the site the same time

Good luck with the project.It was something that UBB Community needed for a long time