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I'd like to add an interactive board where users can talk to each other. Is there a plug-in for that?
Of course, I could just create a private Facebook site and link to it, but I've done that with another web and find that some users post a lot of personal stuff, rather than sticking to the web's intent. Then important information gets buried and people stop going there.
There are BBS sites where you can create a personal bulletin board. You might be able to include one into your site with an iframe (if the BBS allows it, not all do)
Why would any form of social interaction be different? Even talkgraphics requires moderators and that should have been the case on a closed FB group too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Windjamer
I don't see how having a BBS will change anything in terms of what people do.
I found it easy to set up Facebook with moderators. I don't want members to have access to the code of the a web, nor do I want to be the sole mod. Requires more thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by pauland
Thanks Gary. I'll check that out.Quote:
Originally Posted by gwpriester
I just used the Insert > From Content Catalog > Components > Embed a Website widget to embed this topic http://gwpriester.xara.hosting/embed/
Neat! That's why they pay you the big bucks, Gary.Quote:
Originally Posted by gwpriester
One thing to remember re this embed method is that whilst it scrolls nicely on a desktop or laptop it's just statich on a mobile devise.
It's hard to feel sorry for them, the younguns should use proper computers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill
Seriously, I don't think it will be a problem in this application and I only expect a few dozen users to drop in. I could be pleasantly surprised.
Gary's solution is ideal, if I can find an app to plug in there. Any suggestions? This is new territory for me.
Thanks for your input. ��
Could you be more specific, Egg? On Android it just scrolls nicely.Quote:
Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill
Here too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boy
some people have used nabble to do forum with an Iframe.
https://www.nabble.com/
I have never done this just remember reading about it on here.
You may want to do a search on talkgraphicsfor nabbler because if I remember right the person doing it need help in setting up the code to have it work on variants. I think Acorn helped them out.
Ray
Sorry for the late reply. I was talking about on my iPhone. I used to have an old Android phone for testing purposes but it's given up the ghost.
Perhaps Gary could test this on his iPhone?
Most of my website problems seem to come from trying to accommodate mobile devices. The Nabble forum plug-in works fine in this web until I try to include it in the 'phone version, then it double exposes in the "Main" version. I have found that almost all websites open on my 'phone, though usually too small to read easily. However, if I rotate the 'phone to horizontal it reads easily. So, why are we greatly increasing our work developing a Main and a Mobile version of each web?Quote:
Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill
Scrolls fine in Safari on my iPhone X.
Some Widgets/Plugins will not work correctly with variants. A simple workaround is to publish the widget in a separate document without any variants using, for example, a subdomain (e.g. https://myforum.mydomain) with (optionally) scale-to-fit-width; you can then call 'myforum' from your primary website (e.g. https://mydomain) for each variant; standard menu buttons etc. You can style both sites to match (page size, colours etc.).Quote:
Most of my website problems seem to come from trying to accommodate mobile devices. The Nabble forum plug-in works fine in this web until I try to include it in the 'phone version, then it double exposes in the "Main" version
The approach appears to work well for some widgets. See previous post: https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...hare-it-as-one
The upside would be you are managing your forum just once and likely it will scale correctly across multiple devices. You can choose the make 'myforum' a supersite too, which gives you animation options.
Cannot tell if the approach would be successful with the Nabble forum, but worth a try.
Gary
Good question. I guess that's why websites increasingly have hamburger menus instead of the regular ones with mouseover effects that complicate browsing on mobile devices.Quote:
Originally Posted by Windjamer
One advantage of a mobile version, though, is that it allows a visitor immediate (not having to rotate the device) and better readable (larger fonts and often less text) access to the site.
Thanks for that Gary, it appears Apple has sorted out a long standing issue. Unfortunately it doesn't on earlier versions of ios for example, my iPad is long in the tooth and won't update beyond ios 10. Similarly my iPhone 5 won't update beyond ios 12, so on neither of my devices does the iframe scroll, only the page. So this needs to be born in mind.Quote:
Scrolls fine in Safari on my iPhone X.
Here's a page with a cludgy workaround.
Here's a video of the page scrolling on an iPad, NOT the iframe.
Thanks, Gary, this is obviously an elegant solution. However, at my skill level, (low) it will take a bit of experimentation before implementation. I'll let you all know how it works out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Initiostar
For instance, as it now stands I have introduced a Nabble forum form in each variant, Main and Mobile. When published the page shows only blank space where the Nabble form should appear. If I try to edit the form, I get a message that I can do that only with the "full" version.Attachment 125335 Do you think that putting the Nabble form in a separate subdomain will remove that restriction?
Best to create a test by placing your Nabble form in a separate XAR doc, attach it to your reply here and I can take a look for you.Quote:
For instance, as it now stands I have introduced a Nabble forum form in each variant, Main and Mobile. When published the page shows only blank space where the Nabble form should appear. If I try to edit the form, I get a message that I can do that only with the "full" version. Do you think that putting the Nabble form in a separate subdomain will remove that restriction?
Gary
Thanks Gary, but I got it working. I was inserting it incorrectly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Initiostar
I set up a Banker forum and it works on my variant, too. Thanks for the tip!Quote:
Originally Posted by RKissane