Fantasy and Sci-Fi story community
Running a heavly modded version of eFiction 1.1 that is linked to IPB 1.3 final. It uses an IPB mod to share the sessions and load the user info so you are logged in no matter where you are on the site.
Soon I will be moving to SMF, I am currently in the process of modifying eFiction to link to SMF and use it's skin system.
it looks really spiffy. 🙂
Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
url: https://www.potionsandsnitches.org/fanfiction
php: 7.4.33 msql: 5.6.51-community GPL
efic version: 3.5.5 latest patches: yes
bridges: none mods: challenges, tracker, story end, beta, word
It looks great.
Disclaimer: I am not good at making skins or css.
In Mozilla your blocks on the right hang over the frame a tittle bit. It's not distracting but I noticed it.
Fought with that for a bit, but gave up and made it look the best in IE. Got to go with the majority of visitors :).
I am planning a redesign at some point this year. Got somebody who is willing to make me a new skin for some ad space. It will also give me the chance to setup a new forum system, IPB is out of date and I am not gonna pay for it.
Thanks for the comments 🙂
Just a bump as I have finished a huge stage of my redesign. The site also shows off what you can do with a bit of modding. The site is now based off of the SMF forum with Mkportal for the front end and features. Mkportal has a block that uses the recent block from eFiction to display the recent stories. I did have to edit the eFiction block a bit to include the path, but the edits were not that bad.
The skin was designed by one of the regular visitors to the site. Fell in love with the logo the moment I saw it 😉
I like how small your blocks are. 🙂 I think that you need to stick to a color scheme though, the yellow and dark purple is great together with the background, but adding all the otehr blueish purples in the middle throws it off.
Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
url: https://www.potionsandsnitches.org/fanfiction
php: 7.4.33 msql: 5.6.51-community GPL
efic version: 3.5.5 latest patches: yes
bridges: none mods: challenges, tracker, story end, beta, word
I really like the look, but on the efic sie of things you loose the Browse by side of things
You can actually integrate mkportal more closely into SMF - check out this page for details: http://www.mkportal.it/mkportal/modules/docs/install_docs/upload/mkportal/doc/en/html/install/smf.htm
This is for the 1.1 rc's for both though. You can go to neighbor.surfacing.com if you want to see a non-efic test of how they interact. The test site took about 2 hours to slap together, and it looks it, but if you knew how little I know about CSS and php, you'd understand what an astonishing feat was accomplished in such a short amount of time. 🙂
Now picture the scrolling block on the right using the efic RSS feed and the stories loading in the center. ~shiver~
Umm...
You may want to check your website since you have Shader as a member:
http://www.necrotania.com/eFiction/viewuser.php?uid=450
And start patching away.
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Mucking around in eFiction since circa 2001 (ver. 1.0)
Now running v.3
Done a long time ago 🙂
Has not been back since December 5th, and got his IP blocked if he does decide to wander back.
Thanks for the warning though, nice to know people are looking out for each other
wow that's really nice, how did you get the efition theme to fit into the rest of the site so nicely
Done a long time ago 🙂
Has not been back since December 5th, and got his IP blocked if he does decide to wander back.
Thanks for the warning though, nice to know people are looking out for each other
Be careful, IPs change and he may have more than one 🙁
wow that's really nice, how did you get the efition theme to fit into the rest of the site so nicely
Currently I am using the blocks system to include a global header and footer. This way it all seems like part of the same system.
I am working on a new system where the skin will pull template information from the forum directly, so any changes to the skin on the forum are reflected in eFiction without having to maintain two skins. So far it is working well with vBulletin, however I have not been able to duplicate the method using SMF 🙁
Wow, that's awesome that you figured out how to use one skin. Kudos!!
Now all I need is an eFiction SMF merge for a site with eFiction and a clean install of SMF, using the efiction login. XD Aye me.
Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
url: https://www.potionsandsnitches.org/fanfiction
php: 7.4.33 msql: 5.6.51-community GPL
efic version: 3.5.5 latest patches: yes
bridges: none mods: challenges, tracker, story end, beta, word
Thanks 🙂
Using blocks works, however it is not the best solution. For SMF I have been playing with using PHP includes in the eFiction template files to manually call the SMF template parts. So far I have had issues with this due to the way SMF does it's templates (I get 2 HTML headers) and some sort of bug that is preventing the include on the index page of eFiction.
I have been successful getting skin sharing to work using vBulletin by assigning the outputs to template variables. SMF echoes the output directly so this method will not work.
A eFiction to SMF merge is possible, and I have been looking into how to get this to work. The issue is passwords, there is no way to copy them from eFiction to SMF. One solution would be to just copy over all the accounts and let the users request new passwords using the password recovery system. A bit of a pain for the users but it would be the simple solution.
