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yahoo2

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Posted: 02:50am 24 Dec 2011

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After seeing some of the questions that have appeared on the forum in the last 6 months, from newish members. It has occurred to me that some members may have completely missed the projects index page on the website. I think this is a pity, as there is a lot of great stuff in there to give our members a good grounding in all things backshed related.

Is it possible to have a link close to the backshed logo link to jump straight there instead of the current 3 hops?

just a thought yahoo

I'm confused, no wait... maybe I'm not...

Racingken

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Posted: 05:44pm 24 Dec 2011

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Thankyou very much, Yahoo2!!! This will come in very handy!

Ken

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Posted: 08:39pm 24 Dec 2011

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Good Idea,

Bob

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Posted: 10:36pm 24 Dec 2011

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G'day Guy's,
I will second the motion and put a suggestion forward, currently with the MM/DM and other micro forum projects do get lost in history so a new PROJECT forum where only projects are listed could provide a whole new format for this forum. That link to Gizmo's project page could be put in as a sticky and each new profect could be like a blog of the build and provide a great resource in the future for easy to find uC projects and even non uC related projects.

Rather than new projects forum getting cluttered with non related topics new guildlines can be written to keep it clean.

Well what do ya reckon guy's.....

Regards Bryan

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Posted: 11:14pm 24 Dec 2011

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Hi Bryan

There is a wealth of information in some of the older posts that is getting harder to find even when you know what you are looking for, so some form of easy find system for the new members would be an advantage, The search engine is good but only if you know exactly what the title of the post was.

All the best

Bob

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Posted: 07:09am 25 Dec 2011

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Hi Guys

Yeah I've never been happy with the site navigation. The web site is old and has seen a lot of changes in subject matter and size. Clicking on the "The Back Shed" graphic at the top of the page will take you to the web sites root directory, but navigation to and from there is not obvious.

Its also true the old but informative posts get lost in time, and although Google has a good index of this site and forum, a search wont always find what you are looking for. I have been thinking of a Diary section, like Bryans blog suggestion, where a member can start a post about a project they are working on, and add to that post as their projects progress. I need to think about how it would work, to stop it becoming cluttered. Maybe only one diary per member?

The web site is mostly my own projects, and they have been very thing the last few years while I'm move house, but once I get settled in a few months there should be a avalanche of new articles.

Glenn

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