New thinBasic web site ...

[ErosOlmi]

Sorry gui but using thinBasic forum can be a little slow in those days.


I'm working on new thinBasic web site so I'm uploading a lot of files and controlling remotely thinBasic server machine.

A preview of the new web:
http://www.thinbasic.com

It will be online in few weeks. New web is built on Joomla (http://www.joomla.com) CMS.
Hope you will like it. If you have any ideas or issue, let me know here.

New web site is now online at http://www.thinbasic.com

Ciao
Eros

[Michael Hartlef]

I love this template. Cool!

[Petr Schreiber]

Perfect Eros,

current thinBASIC homepage is good,
but new one will look hot, I am sure :)


Bye,
Petr

[ErosOlmi]

Thanks. I'm working to have a cool web site open also to some "preferred" user willing to make articles, tutorials and othe dynamic contents.

Actually I'm just fixing and setting up basic part in order to put it online asap.
The rest will grow day by day also with the contribution with all of you wanting to help.

Ciao
Eros

[Michael Hartlef]

Great idea!

[ErosOlmi]

Is there someone who wants to write new thinBasic web site home page introduction.
Text will go under "About programming passion" article in http://www.thinbasic.com/___joomla/ home page.

Title can change.

[kryton9]

Eros will the new site include a wiki or will we use the one you setup at wikidot? I started work on the wikidot one, but kind of leary about it being outside of your control and it takes a lot of time to setup pages, hate to do all of that and then lose it in the future. Especially since it is custom tags for that site and not really portable.

[ErosOlmi]

Ken,

better to wait, you are right. I've just put online the new web even if it is not ready yet. I'm discovering potentialities hour by hour and I have the impression you will be able to contribute in new web site instead of a separated wiki site.

Thanks a lot
Eros

[ErosOlmi]

Sorry gui for been so quiete but we are having hard working positive days at our company.
Currently I'm spending all my free time on filling new web site content and arranging web site layout, I would like to have something ready for the end of the week.

Ciao
Eros

[kryton9]

Eros it takes a lot of time, we all understand, so don't get stressed, especially if work is so busy, you need to rest too you know... we all understand. Do it so you enjoy it and it is not a task you dread. Thanks for taking on so much to do and doing it!

[ErosOlmi]

Quite ready to let you login into new web site as Authors.
Authors can submit new articles to be approved by admin or modify own already approved articles.

For the moment I would like some help to add scripts into thinBasic scripts area here: http://www.thinbasic.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=7&Itemid=72

If you need an account let me know. I will create a new one and send via Private message here in the forum the login info.
I will also send you a template to be used to create new scripts in order to have all scripts posted with similar layout. Currently I would like to follow the layout you can see into this basic example: http://www.thinbasic.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=62&Itemid=72

We do not need too much complicated examples but simple ones: 20 to 40 lines max.
Every script MUST BE well commented and structured.
Every script should explain one or max two aspects of thinBasic language, nothing more.
You will be free to add more layout tabs to script depending on script needs. Tabs are the clickable sections you can see in above layout link and are very easy to create:


{tab= script name }
<PRE>
'---Here fill with script code
'---Syntax will be automatically highlighted
</PRE>
{tab= Reference }
Write here whatever needed
{tab= This is another tab }
....
{/tabs}


Let me know ...
Ciao
Eros

[kryton9]

That is where the wiki would be great, the help could have examples added by users and corrections made on the fly and then if the wiki supported html, you could just copy and paste to make the official help files that much quicker. I was trying to get it setup at wikidot, but there wiki program is not html, at least not to people adding stuff.

[ErosOlmi]

Hy all.

It seems I will be able to very easily add videos in new thinBasic website just adding {youtube}VideoID{/youtube} in the content of the text. See example here: http://www.thinbasic.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=85

I'm going to work on the website quite a few number of hours during this weekend and in the next days ...
Quite excited and astonished about the many possibilities a CMS like Joomla is able to give.

Ciao
Eros

[Petr Schreiber]

That is good feature,

thanks! I can see you make lot of progress on web, every day there is something new.

Just one thing - in the bullet lists with arrow in orange circle it seems the pictures are cut by few pixels ( not whole circle visible ). Maybe making the image little bit smaller could lead to elimination of this effect


Bye,
Petr

[ErosOlmi]

Thanks Petr.
I will have a look at the little pixel line problem. Reason is because image is a bit higher than the line height so when <li></li> is just one line image is truncated.

Ciao
Eros