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    Hey all, just curious to see what forums you guys might like to see in the near future (possibly).

    I was thinking:
    1. Keep these forums the way they are. (General Questions, Off-Topic, etc)
    2. Add an "Announcements" forum.
    3. Add another category with "Networking Help", "Photoshop Help", and "Web Design Help" (Sub categories would be things like HTML, PHP/MySQL, etc)
    4. "Site Showcase" forum.

    What do you all think?

    I'm open to other possibilities, so feel free to share em!
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    Default New Forums

    I like the idea of some further sub-divisions within the main forum. I suspect it will help with the issue of "techie" vs. "yakker" postings. Personally, I like to see topic-specific areas, because it makes searching for an answer to a specific problem significantly easier IMHO. Go for it...

    Ian

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    My thoughts...

    I like more organization over less. For instance, I don't like how Fantastico stuff is mixed with scripting stuff. At the very least, I think there needs to be some sub-forums implemented there.

    To answer your post specifically... I do think there needs to be an announcements section (#2). I think that's a given. I also like #3, with another sub-forums being "Security". I don't think #4 is necessary, as a forum/sub-forum...a sticky in the off-topic forum should be fine.
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    Quote Originally Posted by macgyver2
    a sticky in the off-topic forum should be fine.

    Yeah that actually sounds like a better idea to me.
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    One of the ways I like to learn is through casual reading. If something catches my eye, it would be nice to just go to a particular topic and read thread after thread without a lot of questions about stuff that doesn't interest me.

    I still don't really understand the difference between the General and Fantastico, etc. categories. It looks like there are a lot of threads in General that couls also be in Fantastico, etc. That's confusing to me, so I just check out new posts. The existing organization just isn't intuitive/appealing to me.

    So, yes to more sub-forums!

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    Default How about

    1] General Information
    a. announcements
    b. updates/alerts
    c. Forum Rules

    2] Support Forum
    a. ASP
    b. CGI
    c. control panels
    d. stats
    e. PHP/MySQL

    3] Some other stuff
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    I'm all for more forums / sub-forums, but I think in this case too many forums could be more confusing than helping. Less is more, so to speak.

    This is my syggestion (based on Cajun's post )

    1) General Information (including forum rules as a sticky)
    a. announcements
    b. updates/alerts
    c. Control panel questions

    2) Scripting (with general questions)
    a. Server-side scripting
    b. Client-side scripting

    3) Other (like web-design)


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    Quote Originally Posted by cajun
    1] General Information
    a. announcements
    b. updates/alerts
    c. Forum Rules

    2] Support Forum
    a. ASP
    b. CGI
    c. control panels
    d. stats
    e. PHP/MySQL

    3] Some other stuff

    We don't need a forum dedicated to the rules, I can just make an announcement post that'll show on every forum. ....just have to wait for permission with that.
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    Yes. Add to General:

    Fantastico Installs (way too big a category to be lumped in with other CP stuff)
    Mail (with everything we see/hear about spam control, I think this is important)

    Announcements = Updates = Alerts, in my book.

    One thing BH lacks is a way to let us know when there's a problem with some or all of our services. If the forum is the place for that to happen, that should be a high priority.

    I say this because BH does NOT need the bad press they can get from trouble reports on their forums/blog, etc. Also because we need (at least) one place where we can go as soon as we see our sites are behaving poorly. If there's a splash page on the help center, that may be more appropriate. We need it, somewhere...

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    Woohoo more places to post LOL

    Id love the photoshop help if it gets set up. I currently use paintshop pro 8 and 9 for my graphics but also have Photoshop,Dreamweaver and fireworks but no idea how to use them LOL

    Dreamweaver and fireworks help would be a good one as well if anyone has enough patients
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