I am having trouble getting this site to look the way I want it to. The problem is that I like to compartmentalize things and it appears that this message board software only goes so far in that direction. Yes, I can make as many categories/subcategories/forums/subforums as I want, but there is no easy way to clearly identify them once you drop below a simple category/forum/subforum type of structure.
This becomes readily apparent when you go into the snake and lizard discussion forums and look at how the subforums for the photo galleries for each forum are displayed. Real hard to tell what is going on, now isn't it? What I had hoped I could get was much like you see from the main forum page of this site where the forums are displayed with a small section within the description of the forum displaying a list of the subforums.
What is also confusing is that the Business and Classifieds Section is actually a forum where posting is disabled, since vBulletin doesn't have the capability to have a REAL subcategory. So all of the forums in that section are actually listed as being subforums. I guess it looks OK, but it is not what I had in mind.
As far as I can tell, the only way to fix this problem is by expanding the main forum page. In other words, eliminate the following subcategories:
and have the forums contained in those sections all listed within the main broad category of Reptiles and Amphibians.
But would that be better or worse then what we have now?
One alternative would be to break the Reptiles and Amphibians category into two categories:
It would still produce more text that will fill the screen then we now see, but maybe that would be a logical compromist to having them all simply listed in the one broad category.
I don't know, maybe I can throw this problem to my programmer and see what he can come up with. But for now, this is what I am pondering as a solution. Any thoughts?
This becomes readily apparent when you go into the snake and lizard discussion forums and look at how the subforums for the photo galleries for each forum are displayed. Real hard to tell what is going on, now isn't it? What I had hoped I could get was much like you see from the main forum page of this site where the forums are displayed with a small section within the description of the forum displaying a list of the subforums.
What is also confusing is that the Business and Classifieds Section is actually a forum where posting is disabled, since vBulletin doesn't have the capability to have a REAL subcategory. So all of the forums in that section are actually listed as being subforums. I guess it looks OK, but it is not what I had in mind.
As far as I can tell, the only way to fix this problem is by expanding the main forum page. In other words, eliminate the following subcategories:
- Classifieds and Business Section
- General Discussion Forums
- Snake Discussion Forums
- Lizard Discussion Forums
and have the forums contained in those sections all listed within the main broad category of Reptiles and Amphibians.
But would that be better or worse then what we have now?
One alternative would be to break the Reptiles and Amphibians category into two categories:
- Reptiles and Amphibians - Classifieds (including the BOI)
- Reptiles and Amphibians - Discussions
It would still produce more text that will fill the screen then we now see, but maybe that would be a logical compromist to having them all simply listed in the one broad category.
I don't know, maybe I can throw this problem to my programmer and see what he can come up with. But for now, this is what I am pondering as a solution. Any thoughts?
