Dear Lead Adventurer,
welcome to your new home at
http://leadadventureforum.com! I really hope you like it and you'll feel comfortable here as usual. As you see a lot has changed. Actually we have a quite new forum now but with old contents. Why changed? No idea...why not?
OK, initially I was thinking about a new software platform due to the web server problems and repeating 500 errors. Thanks to pixelgeek from TGN I have found the
Simple Machines public board software and was really impressed by it. Apart from a better engine than old phpBB, SM has lots of nice and useful features and mods.
As I started the installation of the new software my next idea was to change the URL. Actually I liked the old one "forum.backofbeyond.de" but it said not too much about the name of the forum and the content. Recently I got some donations from you and I thought it would be a nice investition to give LAF a new link and so I went and bought a new domain -
http://leadadventureforum.com After that I installed the forum, imported the old contents and took a look at it. New software, new link, why not a new layout? After a while looking through the Simple Machines themes I've discovered one, that i liked, namely this one. Initially It was looking a bit different, and some more overfilled. I changed some things, had to cleaned some other and here is it. How said once on LAF , some of you will like this new layout and the new colours and some of you not. I just hope there are some people who like it.
The next invest of your donations was to buy a SMHacks
gallery feature for the forum. That's a really nice one, I like a lot the idea to have a gallery here, so we don't need to jump to "Image-Photo-things" to upload a pic. You can do it in the forum, and your gallery can handle with subcategories so you can build up an own gallery here with different topics etc. For example I've created a little gallery of my miniatures and another one of the LPL entries -... I think it's quite usefull for people without own website.
Another new feature we got is
Downloads. An usefull one, I guess, easy to use and always necessary.
Calender. Another nice one, you'll be able to create events and at the same time start a topic about it. For this reason I've created a
new board "Events and Conventions".
Post Attachments. You'll love it, now we're able to attach a file/image to a post. A long-awaited feature, as far as i know.
Although I have to say, all these nice things (Gallery, Calender, Attachment, Downloads) are only available for the supporting members of this forum. Of course, the regular members are able to see the gallery entries, to download files, see and discuss the events but not to create all that.
Btw, supporting members, at the moment the old loved Guggenhem avatar medal won't be displayed for some reason. But I'm working on it, it will be back for sure.
Chess. When one of my friends heard I've put a Chess feature to the forum, he said, we dont need stuff like this. Who knows, perhaps he's right and we really don't. But I would like to try this. I like chess and would like to play it regularly. So maybe someone from the forum likes chess too and we could play some games. I'm not a good chess player but that doesn't matter, only fun matters. Btw, you don't need to be a supporting member to play chess
Another new feature are the
child boards. So I've renamed the old "Announcements" board to
“Announcements and forum stuff“ and splitted it to some child boards - Forum News, Introductions, About Forum, Events and Conventions.
There is still a lot to tell but i think it's enough for now. Next days/weeks, I will start again and again new topics with single themes. Today more about
using of gallery -
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=5617.0 Now just take some time and have a look at the new LAF. I'm sure you have questions and probably you would discover some errors or you'll find out that some of your old permissons are gone. In that case, just let me know, I will try to help you as soon as possible. By the way we have an online help feature on the forum, just click the button
Help in menu or the link
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=helpyours
Prof.