Rearranging forums & call for tech help
Posted: June 22nd, 2010, 10:45 am
I'm really seriously thinking of rearranging this whole site. There are so many forums which don't get used at all.
The site is not very active lately and I attribute that to the fact that it's just the way life is. It's summertime, people have lives, they go to various sites on the internet..... but that said, none of us want to be bored here so some changes/ rearrangements are necessary so that when people do come back, there's something new happening.
Honestly, the dynamic of the place has changed and to keep a dynamic active, we have to have change.
I've asked a couple of times whether people thought it would be OK with them to eliminate forums which don't get used. Each time, members said no, they didn't want me to do that. So, I don't know exactly how I'm going to rearrange the forums, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to do it.
I will probably combine several forums, merge them.
I need tech help.
I need someone to
1) write a script so that the banners change on their own
2) update the software
3) help me find a modification or write the code for a modification to put old archived events and forums on a second page.
Does anybody work with the phpBB software? Are there any techies out there?
If none of you are techies, do you know someone who might want to help? If so, please have them contact me. If there is a cost for this help, somehow I'll figure out how to pay for it so when you talk to your techie friends, please let them know this is a paying job, not volunteer work.
Of course, if there's someone out there who wants to volunteer, that's even better and I would be grateful, but I must be realistic that the possibility of that happening is slim. People should be paid for their work.
The site is not very active lately and I attribute that to the fact that it's just the way life is. It's summertime, people have lives, they go to various sites on the internet..... but that said, none of us want to be bored here so some changes/ rearrangements are necessary so that when people do come back, there's something new happening.
Honestly, the dynamic of the place has changed and to keep a dynamic active, we have to have change.
I've asked a couple of times whether people thought it would be OK with them to eliminate forums which don't get used. Each time, members said no, they didn't want me to do that. So, I don't know exactly how I'm going to rearrange the forums, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to do it.
I will probably combine several forums, merge them.
I need tech help.
I need someone to
1) write a script so that the banners change on their own
2) update the software
3) help me find a modification or write the code for a modification to put old archived events and forums on a second page.
Does anybody work with the phpBB software? Are there any techies out there?
If none of you are techies, do you know someone who might want to help? If so, please have them contact me. If there is a cost for this help, somehow I'll figure out how to pay for it so when you talk to your techie friends, please let them know this is a paying job, not volunteer work.
Of course, if there's someone out there who wants to volunteer, that's even better and I would be grateful, but I must be realistic that the possibility of that happening is slim. People should be paid for their work.