UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 V6 Modifications Forum Design Integration Integrated Index Page (IIP) 5.1.1

so many features in one mod!

I was curious about how you see this mod used by the majority of ubbt owners.. Do you expect most of them will use this as their root level home page?

If so, it should be called Home, not Entrance...

If its used as an entrance, as it says, then how about adding the choice to use the entrance as my start page when logging in..

I thought a lot about how I could best integrate this mod into my site and I personally would much rather have almost every one of these individual pals available to me for use throughout my site, not just on the entrance page by using includes in my header.tmpl. For instance:

- using the login pal on every page...
- using the topthreads pal on the postlist page for forum2 only (by putting the pal in a custom header for instance)
- using the pollpal on every page
- using the profilepal on every page

I was just curious how you envisioned it being used.. Because I mean you have a lot of configuration on how the page itself can be displayed, but If I personnally were going to use this as MY home page, there would be a LOT of things I would like to change. Maybe that's just me

I would like to recommend that you pretend you have never been to a message board before and then take a good look at ubbthreads.com's home page (iip)

Hitting this page truthfully confused me the first time I saw it.. There is no logical flow to it..Among other things, to use it as my home page I need a big "Welcome to my site! This is what we do... Click here to enter the forums and look around"

As a first time visitor I have felt almost bombarded with with stats and information and polls and top posters from a whole web site I dont know even the basics about yet..

Clicking on any link on the pages puts everywhere but the Main Index.. Wouldnt the logical flow be from Entrance to Main Index to A Category or forum to a thread? IIP now throws you from Entrance to thread, leaving you to learn to navigate out or click back to return to the Entrance

The link to the Main Index (I think) should be the biggest link on the page.. Newbies need direction, the other members know to look for the itty bitty "Main Index" link at the top of the page and/or they understand what all the stats/info on the index page mean, and they use your mod as it was intended.

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