New Features

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All updates will be listed here for convenience. There may be post replication but this will provide a full feature list for easy reference.

Added

• Card Smilies have now been added. You can type the smilie code rather than click the card.
• Installed AutoMod for use through the ACP (admin only)
• Added embedding of youtube videos within posts. When you create a new post just click the youtube button at the top of the text box and paste the youtube URL between the tags.
• Added Quick Reply option.
• Added Star Smilies
• Removed superfluous profile fields
• Added custom profile fields
• Added avatar gallery
• Added the ability to create an RSS feed
• Added new table to bottom of index page showing last five posts, top posters and newest members
• Events calendar now added, click the link at the bottom of the page and click on the date within each day pane to add an event
• You can now watch the calendar and have the board email you when new events are added.
• You can watch calendar events and have the board email you about changes to the event.
• Added a gallery. Members can create their own album and as many sub albums as they want. Overall albums for all members to post in created on request.

Requested

• Private Poll

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After my recent illness I'll try and get back on track with the website. There are still some refinements I want to make to the forums and, in particular, with registration. Once I'm happy with the main forum it will then be time to attack the rest of the site, nothing major planned as the forum will be the hub of the site but other areas are planned.

This will be a slow process as I need to fit it around lazing on the sofa, gaming, watching telly and other such important stuff....

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Disabled superfluous profile fields such as ICQ number, jabber account etc. Added two custom profile fields for favourite player and favourite starting hand.

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Added a small avatar gallery with a selection of full tilt avatars. To select these go into your user control panel, click profile, click edit avatar and click display gallery.

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I've created a sitemap using gscrawler and submitted it to google. This is the first of many steps to improve out google ranking. I'm on a steep learning curve so if anyone knows about SEO then post a few suggestions. I don't expect a sitemap to work wonders but our web presence currently sits at zero so this can only help improve matters.

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I've created a sitemap using gscrawler and submitted it to google. This is the first of many steps to improve out google ranking. I'm on a steep learning curve so if anyone knows about SEO then post a few suggestions. I don't expect a sitemap to work wonders but our web presence currently sits at zero so this can only help improve matters.

This is all well and good but I'd neglected to set permissions for the bot group

This was causing major issues for google when it tried to crawl the site. I googled 'site:http://www.pokerallnight.co.uk' and noticed only four URLs were indexed and it fell over when trying to read the php forums and associated topics. I've amended the permissions to read only and it should now be able to crawl the site completely. In order to eliminate problems with duplicate URLs I've set restrictions in the robots.txt file as follows

User-agent: *
Sitemap: http://www.pokerallnight.co.uk/sitemap.xml.gz
Disallow: /forum/main/viewtopic.php?p=
Disallow: /forum/main/viewtopic.php?=&p=
Disallow: /forum/main/viewtopic.php?t=
Disallow: /forum/main/viewtopic.php?start=
Disallow: /forum/main/*&view=previous
Disallow: /forum/main/*&view=next
Disallow: /forum/main/*&sid=
Disallow: /forum/main/*&p=
Disallow: /forum/main/*&sd=a
Disallow: /forum/main/*&start=0

The above two changes should, hopefully, enable google to completely crawl the site and can only help increase our web presence.

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As you will have noticed I have changed the look of the index page to improve site navigation.

I decided to have a look at the phpbb manual and realised I could easily do this. Let me know if you feel it works

[The Showgirl]

Works spot on - nice improvement - if we keep chipping away and this place'll be the bees bollox!

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Added an RSS function. Anyone can now create there own feeds and pop them in their preferred reader. Simply click the Smartfeed link in the top left of the page and go from there.

I've also added a table at the bottom of the index page showing last five posts, top five posters and the last five members to join.

[The Showgirl]

Good Work The Turn