New look/format for OAF Homepage

[Phil Lilley]

It's been a long road but I think it's been worth it.

I've changed ozarkangler's format so many times, trying to get the look, feel and organization I wanted for the site and I think this is a good move.

http://forums.ozarkanglers.com/

IPB developed Content which allows us to set up categories so that we can organize our articles and information on rivers, lakes and streams.  Before long, I'll be asking members on the forum who provide frequent fishing reports to post as articles instead of posts so that those reports are archived where anyone can go back and access just reports.  The articles will show up as posts too, just like they've always done but also archived under that water's category.

I hired a guy from IPB's staff who lives in Germany to set up all the structure, to house the categories and make it work the way I wanted it.  There might be some issues from moving the HOME from the forum to content so if you see nay broken links, let me know.

I've been adding content for a couple of months to the different water categories but have quite a bit more to do.  If you see any errors, or would like to add any info missing, please let me know.

Next project will be working on the "skin" of the site, giving it a little different look.

Side note- IPB has gone through some major changes in it's formatting, thus the frequent upgrade you may see.  I guess they are still dealing with bugs in the new version so upgrades are needed.  When this happens, some of the upgrades don't go as smoothly as others, like yesterday morning.  They had asked (required) changes to the database, which is over my head.  Thanks to Phil Curtis @DaddyO we got everything back in order and back online.

Thanks for your patience!

[mic]

I like it so far.

 

[DaddyO]

Happy to help.  Thanks for hosting this site / community that all of us enjoy!

 

[ness]

Looks good.

[drew03cmc]

The mobile interface is very hard to navigate. Where are the subforums? I can't seem to find the Smallmouth forum, General Angling Discussion, etc.

[Phil Lilley]

Menu bars top right drop down. Select Forums. They're there. Nothing has changed. Just added a new landing page. 

[Fishingmill]

I like the new look. 

[drew03cmc]

Thanks Phil.