Posted: 16 December 2006 at 10:41am | IP Logged

Please use this Topic to discuss the MadMums Pregnancy Parenting Portal Spotlight article.

In addition to questions about getting help with Soop you may also have corrections and/or suggestions for the MadMums Pregnancy Parenting Spotlight news article. We encourage you to post such corrections and suggestions here.

Posted: 16 December 2006 at 6:20pm | IP Logged

Hi Q

Flipflop is nice portal pages in SOOP kernel. Only today is big problem SOOP portal not MUI.  Multilang in SOOP more user in kommunity New SOOP must create in multilanguage and support MySQL.

Ah sorry you not write Chatterbox  in you message Madmums, nice work Flip

Posted: 24 December 2006 at 12:34pm | IP Logged

I am always impressed with FlipFlop's work, not only has he contributed to the world of SooP with his mods, such as Chatterbox, he has also shown what can be achieved by taking a standard install of Soop and customising it to his own needs.

Although I have kids I have to say that I do not browse FF's site for the content, I do have a look every now and then to see what other 'developments' he has made to the site.

FF has shown that by customising Mad Mums to the needs and wants of his users he has been able to create a community where his members want to come back again and again.

I think that SooP software has great potential but many Soopers fail to embrace the power of SooP. It is very easy to install SooP to a host and then expect an online community to suddenly develop and grow by itself. FF has managed to acheive what many Soopers fail to do, and that is to increase the number of members that he has whilst having features that make existing users want to come back and visit again.

Mad Mums is an excellent example of how SooP software can be used to create an online community. It is also an excellent example of how SooP can be customised to a user's needs.

Well done FF.

p.s. Q - the banner image in the GH article links to my site.

Posted: 27 December 2006 at 5:54am | IP Logged

Looks really good,

my only issue is the banner link to it from the highlight page goes to a different forum so took a little finding to find the correct URL

Posted: 27 December 2006 at 8:16am | IP Logged

Thank you for all the kind words, I don't have as much free time on my hands now to do as much and I've not really made any changes to the site in a while however the list in the news item is a little out of date, there is a more up to date list of modifications HERE

I've been using the few free moments I have to clean up the HTML with the hope that this will help with SEO, so far I have managed to successfully validate default.asp, forum/default.asp and forum/forum_topics.asp . I'm working on forum_posts.asp at the moment but it's proving more difficult because of all the none standard code the RTE saves.

Merry Christmas and Best Wishes.

Posted: 27 December 2006 at 12:52pm | IP Logged

I don't use the news tease box and I have a very modified GH but yes to the latter.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.madmums.com

Posted: 28 December 2006 at 7:56am | IP Logged

I can but I'm not sure it will do you much good as it's modified so much.

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