to 1. Using templates, every user could select the theme he likes the most (stuff like order of the info panel would be theme dependent).
to 2. You could make sure that a new version of Eblah still supports the template scheme (impossible with mods, since you don't know who has done which mods, and even if you did, it would still be impractical).

As being said, I know that it's a lot of work, this is simply the ultimate disconnection of logic and design which would provide complete flexibility to theme authors.

I would like to see something where you can have a global header and footer across all themes.

For example, I have a webring navbar on my site. In order to have that navbar across all of my themes I had to edit each theme, where if there was an option for global headers and footers I could have just inserted the webring code in the global footer secton and all of the themes would have that change automaticially.

Quoted from Fryedsoft

I would like to see something where you can have a global header and footer across all themes.

For example, I have a webring navbar on my site. In order to have that navbar across all of my themes I had to edit each theme, where if there was an option for global headers and footers I could have just inserted the webring code in the global footer secton and all of the themes would have that change automaticially.

I really like this idea too.  It would make it much easier to customize the template.  Of course it would mean everyone would have to change their templates again

Quoted from Jesse

In MemberPanel.pl

Code <table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" class="border" width="700"> <tr>   <td class="titlebg" colspan="2"><strong>$profiletxt[93]</strong></td> </tr><tr>   <td class="win smalltext vtop" rowspan="2" style="width: 180px; padding:0px;">$profile{$viewuser}</td>   <td class="win2 vtop">    <div style="font-size: 25px; font-weight: bold;">$memberid{$viewuser}{'sn'}</div>

I changed the width="700" values on some of them to 100% and they look fine on my site now...

Done.

Quoted from mealybar

Dont know how it would work with the perl; but if there was a simpler way of linking up the eblah members database with other logins and pages on a site would be really good.

This may sound a bit basic, but it works! I wanted to setup a member database on an online meditation site we run on http://www.meditacionmundial.com so I linked our forum on
http://www.sanacionysalud.com/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl? to the above URL.

To use the meditation site, you register using a nested table on
http://www.meditacionmundial.com/register.htm

Once they´ve registered, they login to the med site using login board created for it on
http://www.sanacionysalud.com/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b-meditacionaudio/ which can only be accessed by registered users.

The board only has one post on it which says "access meditation here" and when they click on it, there´s a URL redirect code in the post to the hidden audio page on meditacionmundial. I´ve been told I can even set the hidden page to only accept requests from the login URL on the board but I haven´t got round to that yet...

Sounds long winded, but it´s actually quite seamless for the user and you can use it to create logins for other sites, such as one we´re building for online courses.

Hope you find it useful!

Quoted from Justin

Also, I'm wondering if anyone has ideas on how to advertise E-Blah.  More than anything, I think we just need some good set advertising.

Well, if it´s any help, I´ve always worked on "the more you give, the more you get"  ...
My board started as an info site where I gave free advice, and has now grown into half a million clicks a month with 125,000 posts but the spinoff is that most of our students now come to us as a result of visiting the board. They appreciate the info given and as a result, go on the courses we offer.

one idea would be to offer free installations on large traffic sites in exchange for advertising space in the board.

There are alot of "traditional" non net companies out there who want to set up a way of interacting with customers but don´t know how to go about it.

More and more newspapers, for example, are setting un Boards on their sites and TV stations too so viewers can exchange views on the programmes they watch. Soap operas have quite a cult following on alot of TV websites through the use of boards. They all have a high content and traffic  factor.

Go for media sites like those, send them an email with examples of your boards and statistics (how many boards are installed - google brings up 269.000 results for blah.pl   ) and the offer to do the install in exchange for ad space.

Hope this helps!

Quoted from Martin

SQL - NO NO NO

I recommend E-Bblah because of it's flat file feature.

The only thing I believe would benefit E-Blah now is an easier template creator, I'm working on one but I'm pushed for time and compared to you, I'm just a novice.

I Think so. I'm also here cos offlat file system. The SQL can cause character problems or fath related errors and it's weird that cant be fixed in most cases expecially in host moves.

I believe that flat file is the cornerstone in E-Blah.
Otherwise there are a lots of alternates.

And 'ı'm in the forum now to understand and define how many of people syncron and how many forum entries can flat file system handle? And does it cause a CPU or Disk overhead

I agree with Opfer on keeping the theme structure the same throughout each release. I am currently working on a theme designer in VB .NET 2005 and am basing the theme generation on the X Theme from Eblah 10.2.5. It would be nice if the theme structure could stay the same because then I wouldn't have to update the theme generation each time a new version came out.

You can view my post on the template editor here: http://www.eblah.com/forum/m-1172292826/

By the way, I recently found a video that demonstrates the concept of separating content and design in a quite impressive way.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

Quoted from WannaUse

I Think so. I'm also here cos offlat file system. The SQL can cause character problems or fath related errors and it's weird that cant be fixed in most cases expecially in host moves.

I believe that flat file is the cornerstone in E-Blah.
Otherwise there are a lots of alternates.

And 'ı'm in the forum now to understand and define how many of people syncron and how many forum entries can flat file system handle? And does it cause a CPU or Disk overhead

E-Blah closes things out right, the DBI modules work a lot better (or simpler, maybe) than those of PHP, which many programmers are just sloppy or messy when writing with.  You'll often see \' or something similar in PHP applications but you'll not see it in E-Blah.

E-Blah runs fine with either.

I made some banners for advertising a year back. and some themes. http://www.eblahstore.co.nr

http://ffasite.webhostingcafe.com/site_files/ebt/banner.php

saud, the link on you page to the eblah forum used to be http://www.eblah.com/cgi-bin/bb/Blah.pl but it needs updating.... Nice site BTW

I must to agree with keeping the theme the same, as i am making the documentation (with the help of martin's start) and would be lot of work to go though and make changes.

I would like to see maybe a user email system so it does not jump to your default email system or a ajax inline editer

I think something plausable for advertising would be to make some banners and other graphics that people could put on their site, in their signatures on forums (not just their own), etc.

Either that or run some TV ads =P