[SC-Help] Re: I know you're tired of hearing this, but ... re FAQs

[WazoO]

"Mike Easter" <MikeE at ster.invalid> wrote in message
news:da1seo$cnh$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> WazoO wrote:
> > What (few) questions need to show up there?
> > FAQ, Forum, newsgroups already linked to at
> > the top of the page ....
> >
> > http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?act=home
>
> I'm not clear on integrating that page with the others at the forum.

Maybe take another look at my 6-24 post in this thread.  The 'portal'
page being an entrance point .... as I stated, the Forum is but one
link off of this page.

> I can't seem to get to that page from any other forum page, including
> the normal forum front door at http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/ or its
> testing branch, so I presume this 'home' section is a 'fork' ;-)

Technically, the ?act=home invokes another .php file that pulls in
a raft of other script files to "build" that web page.  Trying to follow
all the script bits, macros, links, variable sets is driving me a
bit blind at present.  As stated, this is but a weak example to
try to show what was mwant by a "portal page" ... There is
a much more flushed out / complete portal page script offered up
as a 'starter' file, and the actual coding of that I'm much more
familiar with.  The problem is that to 'play' with that file, I'd have
to make it live ... and I'm not willing at present to make everyone
suffer while I figure it out.  (Thus the request for input while I'm
screwing with code in the background.)

> I see that site navigation gizmo on the left, but I can't figure out
> where the R side's content is coming from, as pertains to the 'normal'
> forum or the 'left' fork.  Or the right fork? -- if you are going to be
> a fork, we should decide if you are right or left or red or blue or
> green or yellow or something.

As stated above, this page is built upon varius snippets of code.  The
lower left-hand stuff and right-hand stuff is built from Forum contents.
I'm srill trying to sort the code bits on how the decision is made on
what to dispaly, Control Panel allows for which Forum sections to
pull content from, how many items to display ... one would think that
time/date-ordered values would factor in, but it doesn't seem to
reflect that.  Again, this wasn't the actual page intended, still trying
to figure out the code this script is using .. just trying to offer an
example of where I was headed.

> There definitely needs to be a site navigation and you definitely need
> to be able to get from anywhere you are to anywhere you want to go, not
> necessarily in one step, but there needs to be 'congruity'.

Per Pop's remarks, Blammo's follow-ups, the years of continuing bitches
about the www.spamcop.net FAQ-o-matic thing ... trying to picture
this page as having those 'initial' answers for those first-time (ticked
off)
visitors, and links to the rest of the support venues if further dialog
is needed/desired.  Again, the 6-24 post in this thread.