Providing the tools you need to design and build your website. Whether you are an experienced hand coder or using one of the powerful CMS's that are on the market you will find something useful here.

"Remake" Theming System

for RavenNuke CMS.

"Remake" is a highly configurable content based theming system for RavenNuke V2.5 (RN) "Remake" is not about the RN files I edited, that was a one-time thing just to make them compatible with "Remake". Now my attention can be directed at RN integration.

This is not RavenNuke Version 3 or Raven CMS. What it is though is a theming system designed to make your RavenNuke theme responsive. Along the way, I had to edit a lot of the RavenNuke V2.5 core files and modules to meet my goal. I had to make them HTML5, CSS3 compliant as well as responsive.

I have created something new that will have to grow and mature to be truly worthwhile. It is my hope that by releasing “Remake” to the public as BETA release candidate 1 that you will help me reach my final goal. And that is to have a fully integrated theming system for RavenNuke V2.5 or V3 or Raven CMS.

In the future files will change because nothing is ever released in a perfect form. It takes a lot of committed and dedicated people to make things better. I do hope that the finger-pointers and trolls will stay out of the mix. Please post and let me know what needs to change and if it is within the goals I am going to include below, I will work hard to make it happen.

GOALS:
• Full administration integration.
• Able to access the themes and make changes on the fly.
• Having the ability to add content to the theme.
• Theme creation.

You can download "Remake" in the Community Downloads Area.

"phpBB3 - WordPress and Website Integration - What I did."
So You Can Too!

I have been a phpBB3 user for some time now and I always wanted to build a website that had the forum integrated into it. Well now I do and that is the basis for this article. I'll tell you how I integrated phpBB3 into my site wrapper.

If you're like me and write (code) your own website then you know how frustrating it is to have a forum and other add-ons that visitors have to register for separately. Now with this small tip you can stop the frustration.

Here is what I did to allow visitors to register only once and visit my entire website freely.

Make max use of phpBB features.

I really hate using a Content Management System (CMS) to build my site because it requires daily updates with pages added as needed. I just feel limited by using one. When I made the integration with phpBB3 I sat and decided what features I could make use of and not have to code a lot of features - that the forum software already provided. The main feature I wanted was giving visitors the ability to register and have a User Account area. I also wanted to set up a downloads area where I could offer my creations to anyone that wanted them. At the same time recording the amount of activity and download numbers. And offer those downloading my creations the ability to comment on them without having to go to another page on my site. Because phpBB3 already has these features, it was an easy decision.

Login/Registration

The first thing I did after installing phpBB3 was to create a login form for my main homepage. I wasn't able to find the entire form at one place on the web so I had to piece it together while coding it to integrate with my website design. You can see it on the right side of the page just under the menu.

Here's the form I made in the downloads area with comments.

Why WordPress?

Now that I had the login/registration added and tested I decided to add WordPress to handle designers news. Well I just wanted to learn WordPress (basically) is the real reason.

I installed WordPress and found a free plugin that allows for login/registration integration with phpBB3. Get it HERE. Now I had my site wrapper, phpBB3, and Wordpress all connected giving me the User Account area I was looking for. I created the downloads area by setting up categories and forums and by doing that I am able to get the stats on visitor and download counts.

Now that I had my site integrated with all of these awesome products I had to build a theme to make all of these look the same. I didn't want to have visitors looking at three separate themes while browsing my site.

"Web Design Trends For 2019"

Also see this Video by Philip VanDusen

Designers have an … anxious … relationship with the idea of trends. On one hand, following the crowd feels wrong — after all, isn’t creativity doing anything but what everyone else is doing? To this line of thinking, the only value in knowing what’s trendy is knowing what you’re pushing against. You can’t simply do the opposite of a trend, of course. But knowing what the trends are makes it easier to subtly comment on and/or critique them.

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