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coverman
03-14-2008, 11:51 AM
Hi,

I got lotso f presales questions, i hope you don't mind, i want to be sure to make the good choice.

1.I was surprised to see how look the articles... in the good sense and in the bad sense. In the bad sense because the fact that the text are not "justified" makes them look very ugly and like a mess (justify > like in office word, when there is no margin on the left and on the irght with space between words if necessary ...well like any articles). Is there this option includes? Do you plan to add it soon if it's not included? It's a main function for an articles mods....

2. I was checking "our magazines" and when i clicked on "submit articles" i daw a page i liked, with the graphics for each categories, and the name of the categories to acces the contents. Is it also like that for the viewing or does it look like that just to submit articles? I mean, if i click on my forum part "articles" my members will be front of a page like that with the graphics, the categories, chosing where they go etc.?

3. With vBadvanced i would like to do the following thing, can you tell me if it's possible to do it with your hack?

a) On vbadvanced homepage I will have a square 250x250 > under it a 250*X column where we can have a quick preview of The 5 or 10 last articles With a little thumbnail (more little than what i will show you); the title of the article on one line cut by "..." if it's too long; 4 first lines of the articles; "read more" link whiuch redirect directly to the good article (take a look here on the left column, to see what i want to reproduce with your hack...they use GARS www.virusphoto.com (http://www.virusphoto.com) )

b) On the second part of this homepage (about 600 - 650 width) put first the slidehow adapting exactly in width to that...can we modify his size as we want?

4. Is this hack highly customizable? can we set permissions for everything? chose to use one little thing and not another? integrate it the way we want in vbadvanced (do'nt want the way it looks on your magazines example, i just want toe left column the way i said)

5. Is there a rating system (that we can tur on and off and so chose to not display if we want of course ) to give a rate to an article?

6. Is there any infomations about the number of comments on an articles? like that http://www.thevbgeek.com/forumdisplay.php?f=43 not comment on author, i do'nt want, but number of comments on an articles.

7. In fact i would like something special don't know if this hack does that. My "forum" wil lbe in 3 - 4 catégories. One wil lbe reserved for articles. I would like that arriving on the forum we see only "articles" word, then you click on it> then it brings you to the choice of the category of the articles looking the same way (well i mean with an icon or graphics and the name, like on the submit articles page) > then one you chose your category you arrive on the page showing the list of al lthe articles the way it looks on GARS (don't know if vbcover does it) http://www.thevbgeek.com/forumdisplay.php?f=43 (with a little thumbnail we can put, the title we can click on, the X (4-5) first lines of the article with the read more stuff and under the number of comments (except if i chose to don't display it), the number of time it has been viewed, and the name of the author (no rating ot the author)

8. I've seen something i don't like in the way articles looks > the big thumb of the author with infoson him at the end of the articles, can this be turned off to have just the name of the author?

9. when we write an article, if we chose for example photo alternate, is there a way to put sometimes a photo noormally (not a thumb, a real photo)?

10. Can we mix all styles of articles? for example first part is alternate, then no photo, then align left, then in the middle a slideshow, then at the end lots of pictures thumbs?

11. Is there a french version of all the hacks? spanish version? or at least, is it necessary or is it just the admin cp in english?

Thanks for the answers

vBcover
03-14-2008, 01:16 PM
Hello,

1- Adding an article is done by newthread.php and is 100% vbulletin. So whatever you can or can't do in vbulletin, you get the same.

2- This page is standard. You would only have to change your categories graphics.

3- You can do anything with vbadvanced, but you'd have to ask how to by them. I only supply the modules, as described in the demo page, so you place them where you want. The width of the slideshow is adjustable in vbulletin->options

4-vBmagazine uses it's own permission system for who can be an editor or who can publish an issue. Everything else falls into vbulletin permissions as it is tightly integrated. If guest cannot see image, slideshow will not display.

vBattach uses usergroup permission

5- you rate articles the way you rate a thread.

6- You can turn on/off comments count, views count

7- This is what (http://www.vbcover.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=30) forumdisplay looks like. In showthread there is an option to display issue thumb and information.

8- Just edit the template. The "big thub" is a snapshot of the issue.

9- Whatever you do in vbulletin, you will be doing the same.

10- We don't have any official foreign versions, but I know it has been translated in French, Spanish and Swede

coverman
03-14-2008, 03:41 PM
Thx for the answer, that's very interesting. I was at 2 minutes to buy GARS and i was on vb.org too where i saw a link, and i checked, and it seems nicer than GARS that i already lmiked a lot.
But that's a bit expensive (especially for those like me who plan to buy more than 1 licence). Is there promotions sometimes? discounts when we buy more than 1 licence ?



refering

coverman
03-14-2008, 03:43 PM
Thx for the answer, that's very interesting. I was at 2 minutes to buy GARS and i was on vb.org too where i saw a link, and i checked, and it seems nicer than GARS that i already lmiked a lot.
But that's a bit expensive (especially for those like me who plan to buy more than 1 licence). Is there promotions sometimes? discounts when we buy more than 1 licence ?



refering to answer 1. => that's what i said, in vbulleti nwe can justify the text, so i was thinking that a article hack wil linclude such possibility, thats one of the base tool to make an article looks nice, so i'm disapointed about that :/ and that's the thing that makes me the most hesitate about ordering the hack or no

vBcover
03-14-2008, 03:43 PM
Well, at 69.99 you get 2 scripts for the price of one (magazine + newsletter)

At bundle, you get 4 scripts.

vBcover
03-14-2008, 03:45 PM
refering to answer 1. => that's what i said, in vbulleti nwe can justify the text, so i was thinking that a article hack wil linclude such possibility, thats one of the base tool to make an article looks nice, so i'm disapointed about that :/ and that's the thing that makes me the most hesitate about ordering the hack or no

Articles are threads. You post articles the way you post threads. vBmagazine does not post articles. vBulletin does.

coverman
03-15-2008, 12:51 AM
Well, at 69.99 you get 2 scripts for the price of one (magazine + newsletter)

At bundle, you get 4 scripts.Yes, but a newsletter scripts i found one free on vb.org that works perfect.

vBcover
03-15-2008, 12:54 AM
click on the newsletter sample link (http://www.vbcover.com/forums/magazine.php?magazineid=27&issueid=1) on the left menu and tell me if it's the same

coverman
03-15-2008, 10:09 AM
I received it. It's nice. But it's a newsletter only about articles and not about other parts of the forum that are not articles.