RC1 is no longer miles away!

[Antechinus]

Stop teasing them.

[Fustrate]

I said nothing about RC1.

[Jade Elizabeth]

Stop teasing them.

Why? I would if I were just a charter LOL

I said nothing about RC1.

But you were very crafty with your words

[TarantinoArchives]

I cannot wait to upgrade. Great job guys

[islam2hamy]

good news 

[H]

Very good Aaron.

Quick question, witch developers left?

http://www.simplemachines.org/about/team.php

[Acans]

Very good Aaron.

Quick question, witch developers left?

http://www.simplemachines.org/about/team.php

wasnt their always 4

[Jade Elizabeth]

Thantos, Jay, and Orstio come to mind

[X3mE]

Great news! Can't wait to see RC1.

[MultiformeIngegno]

Excellent news!! Keep up the great work guys!!

[Atomic Blaze]

Bout time there was something posted about this, and for those who want to know a time fram for release I have one thing to say:

The release date is any time between the time of this post and the actual time of release, when is that? No one knows, guess we'll have to be patient

[Jade Elizabeth]

It's tomorrow!!

(always coming but never here, not literally tomorrow )

[eclipsenow]

Very exciting news!
Does SMF2 have:
* WYSIWYG posts?
* Auto-backup plug ins or new core auto-backup that emails the backup to you?
* RC1 themes that also work when it "goes Gold"? Or will themes possibly need a total overhaul when upgrading to Gold? What does upgrading to Gold mean?
* Easier CSS templates or theme modification, more CSS based?
Now I'm suddenly all excited about SMF 2 ... I thought it was going to be light-years away. 

[shadow82x]

Very exciting news!
Does SMF2 have:
* WYSIWYG posts?
* Auto-backup plug ins or new core auto-backup that emails the backup to you?
* RC1 themes that also work when it "goes Gold"? Or will themes possibly need a total overhaul when upgrading to Gold? What does upgrading to Gold mean?
* Easier CSS templates or theme modification, more CSS based?
Now I'm suddenly all excited about SMF 2 ... I thought it was going to be light-years away. 

1) WYSIWYG Editor - yes
2) Auto-backups - No? There is always room for a plug-in's.
3) Themes from SMF2.0 RC1 will probably need to be updated to work with final.
4) Yes many more things are CSS based.

[niko]

* RC1 themes that also work when it "goes Gold"? Or will themes possibly need a total overhaul when upgrading to Gold? What does upgrading to Gold mean?

SMF 2.0 RC1 templates won't probably work with SMF 2.0 Final. They might work, it depends on changes made to templates and CSS.

[eclipsenow]

Thanks for that. Are there less files to modify in the templates?

Is there a way to load a "package" of say 6-10 files into Dreamweaver just for styling purposes? Say a dummy template set up so that it "looks" like SMF 2 and then maybe just 1 or 2 CSS files to edit (with accompanying images to copy across to image folders, etc)?

If it was in Dreamweaver, I might have a hope of understanding how to style. My wife is a professional "blue chip" graphic designer, but we mainly concentrate on print. I'm just beginning to learn CSS and am pretty bad at the "back end" side of things. I find editing XHTML files interspersed with php quite frightening. 

If I had just a few CSS files to edit in DW, I might be able to get my head around it all and offer a few clean "designer" themes... but as it is, our design is lightyears ahead of our ability in backend / web stuff. Any ideas?

[Antechinus]

No there are not less files to modify.

You will be able to do a lot with just css though. Loading them would be a matter of selecting the ones you want to load. Standard operating procedure. Why would they need to be in a package?

[eclipsenow]

To format the CSS in Dreamweaver I'd like the XHTML pages that "set up" the basic "content" of the site for me... otherwise, what's the point of using Dreamweaver? I may as well just write the code in Firefox's firebug or something (which has its limitations as it doesn't show background images in the CSS).

The whole point is that I'm not that comfortable with CSS yet, and can't just "think in code". I need a few content pages that "mimic" the content of the forum so that I can modify the CSS in dreamweaver and see it as I go.

[Antechinus]

Personally I've never used Dreamweaver anyway. Best way to do this sort of thing is on a local host. Quick. Easy. Immediate results. If it's trashed it can be fixed in no time. Piece of cake. Once I have it pretty much sorted, then it goes online.

[eclipsenow]

Is there one "master-blank" template that has really easy instructions on how to modify the themes? What about youtube tutorials so I can see a "master" at work?

It would be awesome to just have a nice, clean, user-friendly template that had say an easy header plug-in at the very least. If I were running SMF, I'd even have such a thing core.

EG: 3 basic core themes with different but easy WYSIWIG modifying, and plug ins for uploading very specific headers. (EG: The "Professional-basic" header must be 770 pixels wide and can have a height between 70 and 100. Upload HERE) and then the widget uploads it to the right spot, so that even total newbies can do it.

But I'm not a php or programmer guy, so I'm all hot air and ideals, not in the real world I guess.