Hi, I'm Gizzy (Gizmo, Giz, whatever)... My board is available here for anyone who would like to look it over...

I've spent many many hours alone in a dark dark corner listening to the neighbors pounding on the wall and little kids outside screaming redesigning my board...

And I'm here to ask just one thing... What do you think? ...

For note, from what I can remember:

Mod's Installed:
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12 Moderators
Admin Function DropDown Menu
Auto Email Linking
CSSed buttons/dropdowns/textboxes/textarea's
Display Times without JavaScript
DPK's Smilie Mod
Edit User Password in CP
Edit User Post Count in CP
Email Notifications of Replies
HopTo Menu Update
Modifications Wordlets
Poll Beautification
Postcount Restricted Forums
Re-Location of Calendar
Signature Preview
UBB Calendar
UBB Chat
UBB Cosmetic Links
UBB CP Mod Addon
UBB Games
UBB Hyper Cells
UBB MegaModerators
UBB Moderator Lockout
UBB News Fader
UBB News Perl
UBB PM Inbox System
UBB Point System
UBB Quick Reply + PM Addon
UBB Shoutbox
UBB Spellcheck
UBB Statistics
UBB Strike System
User Specific Signature Disabling
Wacking &DaysPruned

and I thought I had many hacks in my 6.5 board let's see...

1. I like the colors
2. I don't like the On/Off images in forum summary
3. I think the » and « near "Active Topics" image don't look so well..
4. there are some problems with the news fader's news, jtlyk..
5. I like the banner
6. the "Member Rated" images don't fit to a dark bg, try to use the ones from drk-bg-images folder of the stock noncgi directory.. you might wanna do the same on the other images, such as profile,email,url,edit,replyw/quote, report post..
7. It seems like everybody has "Point Total: 0"... I suggest you to remove it if it's zero..
8. I gotta go now

btw always most of my notes are negative, just because my point is to review, not to praise..

With the member rated, the blue looks so much better than the orange lol... I'm actually planning on replacing them soon when I get un-lazy lol...

Everyones point total is 0 except those with points :x...

And I know most of your points are negative, I'm used to you by now

LK is quite the pessimist, don't you think?

Anyway, excellent work as usual, Giz. I would like to add a few pointers though:

1) There's not enough variation between your on/off images really. Try making the off image less bright, that's a surefire way to grab attention.
2) Try centre-aligning the news fader, I think it would look better because some news items are very long.
3) This is being VERY picky, but making the cosmetic links 4 buttons across by 2 buttons down would keep up the "box" shape on the board.
4) I also have to go now.

humm, 4 you say... I was thinking of putting a rules button up so it'd be square lol... thanks chris..

Well, 3x3 would work just as well...

but 1x9 would be funnier

indeed, indeed, but it scrolls off to the side even on my resolution...

It shouldn't if you've specified the width on the right column. Make sure there isn't "nowrap" in the right column.

it'd be ugly if they were all in one long line lol...

If I may make a suggestion. As CTM suggested, move the buttons to a 4x2. Remove "UGN Security BBS". Align the buttons top right. Add a background image of the height of your left banner and span the image to repeat (so that it spreads from left to right). 800 is likely to be the smallest user's resolution so make sure that both the left banner + 4 buttons in one row do not exceed 800...Preferably 780px.

I actually meant piling them

Forget this statement...My entire reading is out of whack today. LOL.

I wondered why Gizzy said, "indeed, indeed, but it scrolls off to the side even on my resolution..." and "it'd be ugly if they were all in one long line lol..."

hey Gizzy, could you post the code you used to allow searching by MSN ID, etc? I would love to know which code I would have to use in order to do this

umm all i have is the info in a customfield heh

darn.

Does anyone know a hack that'll allow me to add profile parts to the directory?

I believe if you're using a customfield it'll add it to yoru sirectory

Yeah, the four custom fields are already indexed... in olidex.

I know that, but what I'm using is $user_profile[65],62,60

anyway to get those to work?