Sneak Preview: InfoPanels

Belazor · 12th March 2010, 14:33

As you may have noticed, we've just implemented a sneak preview of our upcoming product: InfoPanels!
This product aims to bring the most important forum and member statistics directly to your members, in a clean and efficient manner.

It's not entirely finished yet, but it should be usable enough so that we can collect some initial feedback on it before finalising it

PS: This will be the first DBTech product that you do not have to have the Lite and Pro versions installed side-by-side, which we know has been a source of confusion for some of you. We hope to take our entire product catalogue in this direction in the future, though we have other things on the agenda to sort out first (not to mention, bug that you guys kindly helped us discover!)

We look forward to hearing your feedback / questions

Neo_Angelo · 12th March 2010, 14:39

its looking good belazor nice job. only thing i could suggest is to move the bits like avatar and the bits next to avatar to the left a bit more, in otherwords where you have the links and things at the bottom, try making the text above those links center so that the link texts are in the middle of them see below:

Belazor · 12th March 2010, 15:11

Weird, it's properly aligned for me...

Neo_Angelo · 12th March 2010, 15:33

maybe its because i'm using a higher screen resolution i'm using like 46' TV moniter. so my res is crazy high. maybe its just that.

also with the TOP 5 statistic is it possible to set the thing to auto reload constantly (i know this would be server intensive but if i was to use a site i'd like to be able to have it auto update at a more regular interval say 5-10seconds)

Belazor · 12th March 2010, 15:40

Yeah, the auto-reload is fully configurable and can even be turned off altogether.

Neo_Angelo · 12th March 2010, 15:47

awesome, i'm sure that will go down a storm. nice job.

Trekkan · 12th March 2010, 18:57

This looks promising. I don't have the time to dig into it right now, but I like the idea.

Offhand, my only concern is implementation. For instance, it takes up a LOT of room at the top of your forums (I assume this will work with the CMS as well?).

I'd like to be able to format this and drop it into smaller areas. Maybe I only want to display 5 of the stats in a CMS block, can I do that? Maybe I want the other 5 in another block, etc.

This would allow for dropping custom stats where they make sense. You can still have a full panel with everything in it, but then help augment other areas of the site with specific stats that make sense.

Anyway, it's only a half thought idea right now. =)

Trekkan · 12th March 2010, 19:10

Ok, one more quick thing, don't even know if it's possible to include it in this, but...

I saw you were visiting my site Belazor, so maybe you already know what I mean.

But I'm using a mod from vb.org for the "DHV Dashboard". What I really like about this is the AJAX of displaying the latest threads within different tabs. So I have these broken down into the primary groups of my forum.

I'd like to see this same functionality added (if possible). To take that a step further, it'd be even better if these tabs were user configurable. So my members could set them up the way they want, not the way I want. Although I'd like to be able to retain the ability as an admin to force specific tabs/forums to always show.

If this is too far off base for what you're doing, no problem. But the two mods somewhat cross over in functionality now so I thought I'd mention it. =)

Neo_Angelo · 12th March 2010, 19:27

that sounds a great idea so users can arrange their own dashboard to show what they want to see whether it be latest threads, newest members that kinda thing?

Belazor · 12th March 2010, 19:33

Originally Posted by Trekkan

But I'm using a mod from vb.org for the "DHV Dashboard". What I really like about this is the AJAX of displaying the latest threads within different tabs. So I have these broken down into the primary groups of my forum.

Yeah I was actually looking to see if you used the VSa stats, but yours does look a lot better.

I'll see about that level of customisability being added

EDIT: That being said, it's not going to be impossible to create custom blocks for InfoPanels either, though they would still be admin limited.

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