Invision Power Board and SDK
Monday, July 04, 2005
The trivial being forums that I and my co-web host run use the "Invision Power Board". It has served us well and now accommodates over 50,000 posts and 1200 members. An aim for all of my websites is to make them community orientated. This has been fairly difficult with the minimal IPB-site integration I was capable of. However, now I have discovered IPB SDK.
I can now use the extensive and growing forums as the central hub to multiple user services, new sites and much much more. Additionally it is free and open source! I have already began incorporating it into my current sites, primarily my Evangelion Live Action site which I have recently redesigned. This new discovery will greatly enhance my future sites and provide highly valuable user interaction and member only sections.
As aforementioned, I decided to redesign the live action website. I really despised the old design, it looked hideous, consumed bandwidth and it was messy, incredibly messy, not only the look but the code running it. I have since completely revamped the site basing it around IPB SDK and a CSS style sheet to replace all the annoying font tags. This is version 4.0 of the site and people have been querying as to what v1-v3 looked like. I only have memories of them myself and I feel sometimes I would like to just glance at them again, for old times sake or something. So, if I ever change the current design (v4), here's an archived picture version of how it looks now:
IPB SDK is a library of PHP functions, which will help you develop advanced applications on your site. Integration between your forum and site is essential in the websites of today. IPB already has a great member system, why re-write another one if you can use one member database for both?
I can now use the extensive and growing forums as the central hub to multiple user services, new sites and much much more. Additionally it is free and open source! I have already began incorporating it into my current sites, primarily my Evangelion Live Action site which I have recently redesigned. This new discovery will greatly enhance my future sites and provide highly valuable user interaction and member only sections.
As aforementioned, I decided to redesign the live action website. I really despised the old design, it looked hideous, consumed bandwidth and it was messy, incredibly messy, not only the look but the code running it. I have since completely revamped the site basing it around IPB SDK and a CSS style sheet to replace all the annoying font tags. This is version 4.0 of the site and people have been querying as to what v1-v3 looked like. I only have memories of them myself and I feel sometimes I would like to just glance at them again, for old times sake or something. So, if I ever change the current design (v4), here's an archived picture version of how it looks now:
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