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    • CommentAuthoraroma
    • CommentTimeJun 29th 2008
     
    looks good yes ,but please a forum for lymphodemea please !! looking forwrd to the new look .thanks .
    • CommentAuthorBahons2
    • CommentTimeJun 29th 2008
     
    I agree with aroma - I think we need a forum for lymphoedema. It gets spread everywhere and people use both the British and American spellings, which makes it a nightmare when searching.

    Thanks

    S
    • CommentAuthorJennywren
    • CommentTimeJun 30th 2008
     
    It looks really good to me - I look forward to using it!

    Jenny.
    • CommentAuthorBertieB
    • CommentTimeJul 1st 2008 edited
     
    Hi all,

    Thank you for your feedback so far.

    I have mentioned the need for stronger colours to the designer.

    A new category for Lymphoedema is not dependent on a new website so this category has now been created (check on the left hand side).

    Various spellings is a very valid point, we will be able to choose the keywords associated with each page to facilitate the search. Our content team are planning to use different spellings including common misspellings.

    Timescale: (I was hoping no one would ask this question!) It is still a bit risky to mention a launch date at this stage but we are hoping to have the new site ready in the autumn, ideally sometime in September. We will most likely be running the current website and the new one in parallel for the first few weeks. The new site will be on a test address, but the new forums will have to be on the new site (otherwise you would have to post on two separate systems). This will then give you all an opportunity to help us test the new site, reporting any bugs so we can fix them all before the ‘official’ launch.

    We are conscious they may be some challenges to adapt to the new system. Having said that, when we moved from the previous forum to the current one, the number of posts increased by over 4,000 in the first month. PHPbb, the software we will be using is very user-friendly. We were also thinking of using our live chat system to allow you to chat with a member of the team and get live technical support during our working hours. Other suggestions are welcome…

    Thanks,

    Bertie
    • CommentAuthorBahons2
    • CommentTimeJul 1st 2008
     
    Good to see the lymphoedema discussion heading - many thanks!

    S
    • CommentAuthorFizBix
    • CommentTimeJul 3rd 2008
     
    brilliant bertie!!!

    thanks a lot !!!!

    i am gong to put my new training on there later !!!

    great big fat kiss .... FB xxx
    • CommentAuthorLeeloo
    • CommentTimeJul 4th 2008
     
    I think the website is looking good, especially if once you log in the colour stays as it is a tad boring now.

    Lisa
    oxox
    • CommentAuthormisha
    • CommentTimeJul 14th 2008
     
    Great site but It would be useful to be able to track discussions more easily - e.g
    (1) a way to see all the discussions I have bookmarked without having to plough through all the different categories
    (2) a way to see all the discussions I/another user have started without having to plough through all the different categories

    Thanks
    Misha
    • CommentAuthorvertangie
    • CommentTimeJul 14th 2008
     
    I would just like to say as a web devevloper, programmer and user of many forums for my work going with phpBB is the best choice you can make unless you've actually got the skills to build exactly what you need. very good choice.

    And as it is open source and in PHP those of us on here that do program in PHP (it's a very common language so I doubt I'm the only one) can actually help you by building the features you need if they're missing.

    Excellent call. I'm really loking forward to being able to easily find my friends posts most of all.
    • CommentAuthorJennywren
    • CommentTimeJul 18th 2008
     
    Could we have a bibliography on the new site?

    We could post links to research papers, books, news articles. So much interesting stuff is posted on the forums and then gets lost in the ether.

    The list of literature regarding talking to children is a great example and I would like to see more of this.

    Jenny
    • CommentAuthorBertieB
    • CommentTimeJul 22nd 2008
     
    Hi all,

    Since my last post we have made good progress. Most of the templates have now been designed and the technical build has started. The new forums (phpBB) are also being built and are starting to look really good. We will indeed need some help testing it in the coming months. The idea of a bibiliography is really good and one that we will add to our list for future development.

    Here are some new templates (forums and profile page). They are taken from a screen grab of a PDF so the colours are not as strong as they will be in the final design. i.e. text on the forums will be black, not grey. Also ignore the text which is just dummy for design purposes.








    I also wanted to ask you for your opinion on another online service: the live chat. Some of you may remember our forums were initially called chat forums but we felt discussion forums was more appropriate than chat. Similarly, we are thinking of changing the name of the live chat on the new site.

    The possible names we are thinking about are:

    - Live Discussion
    - Live Discussion Group
    - Live Discussion Session
    - Live Group support
    - Live Support

    Let us know which name you prefer or if you have more suggestions.

    Many thanks,

    Bertie
    • CommentAuthorlyndu
    • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2008
     
    One option I'd find useful is to be able to filter out the chit-chat category - when I come on to the forum I have a look to see if anything new's been posted that looks interesting. I often end up going away because about 50% of the messages are the chit-chat, and that's not for me. There's a lot of stickies as well at the moment, but those are info I might be interested in - but the combination of them plus the chat makes the overview page less useful for me.

    I prefer not to look in lots of individual forums - partly because I forget they're there. I found a discussion I was interested in under current topics this morning which started quite a while back - I never remember it's there!

    Lyn
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    Hi Lyn

    You can filter out the chit chat category (or any others) now. Just go to the categories tab on the top menu scroll down to the category you want to filter and click 'block category'.

    Hope this helps

    best

    Ann
    • CommentAuthorlyndu
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2008
     
    Brilliant! I didn't know that - many thanks!
    Lyn
    • CommentAuthorLeeloo
    • CommentTimeJul 25th 2008
     
    I have to say the new site is looking fantastic. I haven't used phpBB but know of it, and I am glad the forums and pages still look good, I hate that plain blue stereotypical look to a lot of those sites.

    I also am looking forward to posting a lot on them,

    Thanks keep up the great work
    xo
    • CommentAuthorAJXXX
    • CommentTimeAug 2nd 2008
     
    I don't know if this request has been put on already but is it possible to sort out how easily posts can be lost before you hit the add your comments. I wrote a long post a few weeks ago about something that took me a long time to decide to do, it took me ages to get it right and say what I wanted to say in a clear non rambling sort of way, it was to do with my psychological state rather than a physical issue which are sometimes harder to deal with and then I don't know what I did or what button I hit but I lost it. I know it sounds daft but I felt bereft and didn't have the energy to do it all again. i have read other people saying that they have lost posts as well and how infuriating it is.

    Is it possible to have an "are you sure" box or an automatic save to draft function for when we are chemo raddled and brainless. There is a box that comes up about reporting posts that I have hit by accident before fo could this be combined in the comments box some how to save our sanity.

    Thanks
    • CommentAuthordoylej
    • CommentTimeAug 2nd 2008
     
    I'm sure this has already been mentioned, but I wondered if it would be possible to change the colour of the posts once they have been read - it would make it a lot easier when trailing through the various threads to then spot the ones that you haven't already opened.

    AJ - I just wanted to mention a quick fix re your problem with losing posts. If I have typed a particularly long lost and have taken quite a lot of care to get it right, then an easy way of saving it is to highlight the text by holding the Shift key and scrolling down, then press the Ctrl key and whilst holding that key down press the letter C. This action will copy the text for you and hold it in your computer. If you end up losing your post, you can re-open the thread and in the comment post press and hold the Ctrl key once again, but this time press the X key. Your text should reappear. Jacqui
    • CommentAuthorAJXXX
    • CommentTimeAug 2nd 2008
     
    Thanks for this Jacqui, i will give it a go
    • CommentAuthorhorace
    • CommentTimeAug 14th 2008
     
    When I as a computer illiterate lose a post [oh so often]it is usually because I have hit 'back to discussions' instead of 'add your comments'.I know not many of you are as daft as me but it is easily done.
    • CommentAuthorcrispy
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2008
     
    I think your new information section might solve this but on the current website I can't find a link to the menopuasal symptoms mentioned in a thread. I keep on finding information sheets noted in posts that are not intuitively available from the information section

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