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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Web Programming and Design => Topic started by: Eeems on November 29, 2009, 01:43:42 am

Title: iPod friendly forum
Post by: Eeems on November 29, 2009, 01:43:42 am
Well I've been trying to set up a site with a iPod touch friendly forum kit I got online. I'm having some problems, but I was wondering what people thought. Would an iPod touch friendly forum site be good? Or should we try and find an iPod friendly skin for omnimaga?
Title: Re: iPod friendly forum
Post by: Geekboy1011 on November 29, 2009, 02:36:06 am
hmm both cause it would help with the psp for when im stuck using it
Title: Re: iPod friendly forum
Post by: ztrumpet on November 29, 2009, 10:18:44 am
That sounds like a good idea.  I vote for a friendly skin. 
Title: Re: iPod friendly forum
Post by: Eeems on November 29, 2009, 04:16:43 pm
well I looked for a skin and I cant seem to find one...but I don't know, if I did some research I could make one myself....I have a iWebKit that I could use for it...maybe I will
Title: Re: iPod friendly forum
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 29, 2009, 04:52:38 pm
I am a bit against multiple Omnimaga forum skins, because when we want to update the navbar or install certain mods, then we're stuck having to modify both skins at once all the time, which takes a long while. Also I myself had so much trouble editing that skin that I had to ask help from tr1p1ea to edit some stuff
Title: Re: iPod friendly forum
Post by: Eeems on November 29, 2009, 05:01:04 pm
ah ok...I was just thinking that it would be nice to have support for ipod touch users...I could help whenever you needed the skin changed
Title: Re: iPod friendly forum
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 29, 2009, 05:03:29 pm
Actually, there is a SMF mod that enables Lo-Fi version like on UTI at the bottom so it is easier to read by search engines and lower resolutions. The only issue with that though is that the board becomes in read-only mode when you go in this mode.
Title: Re: iPod friendly forum
Post by: Eeems on December 13, 2009, 04:54:27 pm
well I have started work on an iPhone/iTouch friendly SMF theme that is specific to Omnimaga, there is currently a theme out there that is iPhone/iTouch friendly but not specific to Omnimaga, so I am modifying that theme to look like ours. more info to come as I get ready to upload it

EDIT: also it looks like the theme will auto switch if it detects an iPhone/iTouch, so you don't have to set it yourself
Title: Re: iPod friendly forum
Post by: agent84 on December 13, 2009, 08:39:41 pm
sounds like a great idea man!  This site's a pain to go through with the iPhone, cuz its so large!  Let me know when it'll be ready, or will it just automatically show up as default?
Title: Re: iPod friendly forum
Post by: Eeems on December 13, 2009, 08:45:21 pm
Quote from: Eeems
EDIT: also it looks like the theme will auto switch if it detects an iPhone/iTouch, so you don't have to set it yourself
^^
Title: Re: iPod friendly forum
Post by: ztrumpet on December 13, 2009, 09:21:58 pm
Nice! I can't wait to see it.
Title: Re: iPod friendly forum
Post by: Eeems on December 13, 2009, 09:30:00 pm
It may take a while to make it considerably omnimaga enough :p
Title: Re: iPod friendly forum
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 13, 2009, 11:09:01 pm
solution: browse the forums from a real computer like how it should be :P

I agree this might be problematic for people with limited computer access, though...
Title: Re: iPod friendly forum
Post by: Geekboy1011 on December 13, 2009, 11:12:58 pm
well we dont want to risk omnimgaga as the testing platform you gonna make a alternate copy of omni to test with or somthing???
Title: Re: iPod friendly forum
Post by: Eeems on December 14, 2009, 12:30:25 am
I don't know, and I don't think it should be that dangerious at all...unless we do a bunch of deleting x.x
Title: Re: iPod friendly forum
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 14, 2009, 01:16:33 pm
Omni should be fine regardless of if a new skin is added or not. You just need to make sure to not accidentally edit the two alerady installed skins (the default SMF skin, disabled, and the Omnimaga one) instead of yours

The other hard part is keeping the new skin in sync with the default Omnimaga skin afterward (read: mods and navbar)
Title: Re: iPod friendly forum
Post by: Builderboy on December 14, 2009, 05:38:23 pm
Hopefully this will come in handy if(when :P) i win the iPot touch in the Greenfoot contest ^^. 
Title: Re: iPod friendly forum
Post by: Eeems on December 14, 2009, 05:59:23 pm
yeah it should be easy
there is one mod that needs to be added for the automatic detect, and I don't know if it's going to be fully compatible with everything, but it should make the forum easier

EDIT: Also DJ, Here is the Mod with the Omnimaga Banner resized to fit. You can take a look if you want
Title: Re: iPod friendly forum
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 14, 2009, 08:57:54 pm
cool, is it finished yet? I might take a look later
Title: Re: iPod friendly forum
Post by: Eeems on December 14, 2009, 09:19:18 pm
Actually no, it's hardly touched, but the banner is in
Title: Re: iPod friendly forum
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 14, 2009, 09:21:07 pm
er

I think you meant to reply to another topic then switched to another but forgot you did the later and posted anyway :P

that happened to me before, though


EDIT: nvm fixed

I am tempted to wait a bit, because sometimes reinstalling skin updates is a PITA x.x
Title: Re: iPod friendly forum
Post by: Eeems on December 14, 2009, 09:25:47 pm
Lol, yeah :p ah ok, well most of my changes will be pictures but I might have to make a few code changes.