VBadvanced questions

[Delw]

Hi I am new to the VBulleting software, I just purchased one licence a few days ago and have some questions before I upgrade all my sites.

I have been using ubb for 5+years on our board, but we been having problems with it, and our host suggested VB.

Ive also added Postnuke to our boards. which while I like the format its a pain to transfer stuff from ubb to postnuke(ie storys)

I have 2 sites I would like to convert and I am open to suggestions
We use the news as you can see on both boards.
I understand there is no way to import the news and I dont mind doing so manually.
is there a way to take a post in Vbulletin and automatically put it in the news on the home page as a story or news? Currently I am cut and pasting everything then adding the html codes needed. However the storys are already on the forum.

http://www.hunttalk.com
http://www.azbasszone.com

Our home page on both forums is usually updated via admins only.
one thing that looks like its going to work well is the calander that VB has, it sure is going to save alot of typing than post nuke and people will be able to access it not only on the home page but also in the forum.

From what I read I think the vbadvanced homepage and vbadvancecmps wil work but I honestly dont know the difference between the 2.
Can someone explain the differnce between the 2 for me please or point me to what the difference's are.

Thanks guys
Delw

[Brian]

is there a way to take a post in Vbulletin and automatically put it in the news on the home page as a story or news?
With either script you just enter a forumid that you would like to pull news posts from and it will show threads from that forum in the news section.

From what I read I think the vbadvanced homepage and vbadvancecmps wil work but I honestly dont know the difference between the 2.
Can someone explain the differnce between the 2 for me please or point me to what the difference's are.
http://vbadvanced.com/?page=compare ;)

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[Delw]

Thanks brian
I found the link a little while ago, it answered some questions I had.

I think we have the start of that now with the forums we have on the bottom of http://www.huntandlodge.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi



Hunttalk Success Pics & Stories Catagory, that way the guys could add thier storys with pics and stuff into these and it be automatically added to the front page.
I relize that the forums are what goes on the front page not the catagory( was just using for comparison)

could I have 4 differnet storys sections ie biggame , elk , deer, etc or should I just do it for the year like 2004 then in 2005 creat a new one for 2005 etc

Brian also when you guys get gallery all worked out I am definatly buying. our gallery is over 1.5 gigs big any thoughts on that big of one?


Delw

[Brian]

could I have 4 differnet storys sections ie biggame , elk , deer, etc or should I just do it for the year like 2004 then in 2005 creat a new one for 2005 etc
You can enter a list and set as many news forums as you would like, though there isn't anything to split them up into different sections or anything like that.

Brian also when you guys get gallery all worked out I am definatly buying. our gallery is over 1.5 gigs big any thoughts on that big of one?
Shouldn't be a problem. The images are stored on the server, so it won't be a problem with your database. The largest right now is on my personal site with over 10,000 images and about 1/2 gb of space and runs fine. I also did some tests on my localhost with a few hundred thousand images and experienced no problems with that.

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[Delw]

Brian

You answered all my other questions on the vbulletin home page deal
Thanks


I do have one more question on the gallery if you dont mind then I will leave you alone


We have members that upload pics that are 2+ megs, will your gallery have a way to automatically resize the pics 600 x 480 for example which inturn would use so much space?(this would reduce our storage size big time)


Again thanks for all your help

Delw

[Brian]

Most server configurations won't allow for a file more than 2mb to be uploaded through a browser. If your server is set up to allow for that though there shouldn't be any problem resizing the images.

[Delw]

Brian your right, I just checked some of the pics properties.

The gallery we are useing now has three sizes thumbnail, sized and normal.
the normal picture is huge scrolling screens in some case the picture size is about 1/2 meg to little over half meg on some that I checked., the sized picture is 600x480 pixels.

Also I forgot we have some movies in that gallery

Thanks again

Delw