I am proud to present community.postnuke.com, a new website to serve as the main community portal for the PostNuke Application Framework. This site is the culmination of months of hard work, and serves as a showcase for the full potential of PostNuke in developing a high traffic, high performance and interactive website.
Everyone on the pnTeam was involved with the PostNuke sites, either through providing feedback or the use of their modules on the website. Thanks especially go to everyone on the core redesign team, who each put in hours of work getting this site ready to go live:
- Franz Skaaning - creator of the initial theme versions in use both here and at www.postnuke.com.
- Franky Chestnut - coded the PostNuke SVN packages module, and the knowledgebase exclusively for community.postnuke.com.
- Frank Schummertz - for chagnes to pnForum readying it for use on community.postnuke.com and the forums.postnuke.com conversion.
- Wendell - for polishing the theme and fixing cross browser issues, as well as creating the Pagesetter database templates from scratch.
- Simon Birtwistle - overall design, content creation and editing, design and implementation of Pagesetter publications for databases and conversion scripts for news archive.
A case study of the site will be published shortly to indicate how all of this was achived. In the meantime, a short overview of the website structure is in the extended text.
The old multisite subdomain structure was long overdue a replacement. After a long review and design process, we feel that community.postnuke.com addresses many of the established flaws in the old sites. We now have a full extensions database, where modules, blocks, themes and plugins can be listed in an easily searchable format. Each item should now only have one listing, whereas before there were often large numbers of articles to search through.
We've also moved one step closer to improving the documentation available for PostNuke. Any member of community.postnuke.com can now contribute to our documentation, and we would encourage you to do so. Through working together we aim to drastically improve the availablity of documentation for both users and developers.
Our forum support module has switched from PNphpBB to pnForum. This decision was taken for a number of reasons, mainly as the API compliant pnForum offers an easier platform for support through hooks. Common problem phrases in posts can now be autolinked to useful knowledgebase tutorials and Wiki pages. Please note that the forum structure has been rearranged as a result of this move, and ensure that you are posting in the correct forum for your problem.
Finally, we think the new site offers improved navigation, content and functionality. We've tested fairly well, but if you do find any bugs in the new setup please post them in the forums.
Simon Birtwistle PostNuke Steering Committee
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1. vworld wrote on May 01, 2006 at 09:24 PM
Congrats to everyone!2. watermanFFM wrote on May 01, 2006 at 09:43 PM
It is fresh, it is cool, it is PostNuke. Congartulations for the great relaunch!3. Simon wrote on May 01, 2006 at 09:50 PM
This was a long weekend. Am I glad to get this out the door.Congratulations and thanks to all
4. pheski wrote on May 02, 2006 at 12:03 PM
Good work - I like the new look. Must have been a long weekend.
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Peace
5. Simon wrote on May 02, 2006 at 02:50 PM
Fixed! Thanks for the report.
6. patrick.c wrote on May 02, 2006 at 04:44 PM
There are still issues with the forum. Please give us a little bit more time. Everything will go smooth again soon7. watermanFFM wrote on May 02, 2006 at 05:48 PM
Where can I find the used icons from this site? In the past I found the whole list here (noc.postnuke.com/plugins/scmcvs/cvsweb.php/?cvsroot=postnukeviewcvs.cgi/PostNuke/images/icons/) but the link is dead!
I would be happy to get a new link to the source!
8. Simon wrote on May 03, 2006 at 07:24 AM
That's because we are now running SVN, not CVS. You can still access SVN at the PostNuke NOC Project.9. watermanFFM wrote on May 03, 2006 at 12:46 PM
Could you please give me a direct link to it? I canīt find it!10. patrick.c wrote on May 03, 2006 at 01:50 PM
http://noc.postnuke.com/
Then click: PostNukeTM Project Page
Then: SCN
Then: [Browse Subversion Repository]
Was it that hard to find?
11. Lobos wrote on May 04, 2006 at 12:31 PM
YOu can fix that problem with avatars overlapping (vworlds one is doing it) buy adding this to the bottom of the comment container:
<div style="clear:both"><!-- --></div>
-Lobos
12. markwest wrote on May 04, 2006 at 02:16 PM
Lobos,
Thanks for the little fix - this is one i'm already aware of.
This is one of the little fixes that needs to happen once the server performance issue has been resolved which, of course, is everyones main focus at the moment.
-Mark
13. Imoq wrote on May 06, 2006 at 03:53 AM
Whoa! Very nice! It takes you a few minutes to get used to the new design but it is, indeed, very cool.Congratulations to PN team!
14. ovidiu wrote on May 06, 2006 at 07:58 PM
Finally we have a stilish website up and running and the best part I've been waiting for is to gather all modules and themes in a single place.
Good work folks!
15. Namtrak wrote on May 16, 2006 at 02:57 AM
Havent been here in a while and I must say this looks fantastic. Real Pro effort!!!