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Mikel Coreclark
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Founder of Majuuna.com social network.
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    "This new product may be the best addition yet for my site. I have not got the time or patience for app stores, google, iTunes, or others. so if I can just plug and play with this app then perfect. I will have to visit blog and get the info. mikel."
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    "Hei. I have had some experience in creating terms and cons and cookies. Trust me, Its a tricky path to walk. However , I have quiet a good T and C page, privacy page and a basic section on cookies. Also a section on rule breaking, punishment system, harassment, bullying, stalking, slander, criminal activity, selling, personal information (as my members have to register their personal address for security and legal reasons). FELL FREE TO COPY AND ALTER WHAT YOU LIKE. that best helps you. My pages are best set for the UK but some clauses relate to international territories and laws. I have kept everything simple and generic so it does not scare people away plus most members will not read them anyway. But these can give you a starting hand. here is my site url: majuuna.com hope this helps mikel"
  • Mikel Coreclark commented on
    "Hei. Yes. I'm not fully upto date with tech knowledge but I knew it was for a good reason. as I don't have the facts or reasoning about this. I would urge you to read Donnas Reply contained in this thread. It will explain better. I trust her word and knowledge about such things. This is all I know about this subject and is not based on SE Facts. Also I don't want to start a gossip and hear-say thread in case others read and misunderstand what we talked about and start to panic. thanks mikel."

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    Member Signup ? (majuuna.com)
    This is your site's landing page. Majuuna
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      Donna Post moved to PHP Tips and Suggestions. This is where you can discuss your ideas. :)
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      Mikel Coreclark Hei folks.
      Mikel here.
      I am wondering if it is possible to have a dedicated forum section for an exchange / discussion for network building hints and tips that have worked or not worked (I don't like the word failed as this mostly means the plan was bad, and not simply it did not work the way you wanted)

      Anyway what I am thinking is network admin / owners can swap success stories or exchange ideas before they are put into practice so we can learn from others knowledge of what worked or did not work and so improve or tweek ideas.
      As many brains and eyes can see things in many different ways than our own to solve issues such as attracting new members, advertising / marketing, ideas to stay clear from.

      Any views ??
      mikel
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    theme insignia (majuuna.com)
    This is your site's landing page. Majuuna
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      Mikel Coreclark Hello people.
      Are there any people knowledgeable about themes. especially about theme insignia.
      Background: I am trying to create the colour scheme of theme 'slipstream' onto theme insignia (clone).
      I am 99% complete.
      The only issue I have is the border boxes, I just cant seem to change the border/boxes colours from insignia grey/white to the 'slipstream' green.
      I am not seeing what else I can change in constants.css to rectify this.

      Question: any solutions as to where I should look if it is possible to change these ?

      thanks
      mikel
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    Posts ( member posts) (majuuna.com)
    This is your site's landing page. Majuuna
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      Mikel Coreclark Hello. I have a problem.
      When ever someone 'Posts' on their page this happens:

      Chief Administrator Hows this colour scheme looking ???
      en4.core.runonce.add(function () { en4.activity.bindEditFeed(364, { lang: { 'Post Something...': 'Post Something...' }, allowEmptyWithoutAttachment: 0 }); });

      Any ideas ??
      mikel.
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    landing page (majuuna.com)
    This is your site's landing page. Majuuna
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      Mikel Coreclark Hi. mikel here. just doing an update regarding this issue.
      background: one of my borders in [constants.css] was a different size to all others.
      I had tried to de-crease the border sizes.
      Resolve: I think when I altered the [border width] sizes there must have been an error somewhere in script ???
      So anyway I put all sizes back to pre-set scripted sizes and just altered the [contents] sizes, not touching the border sizes.
      This has worked. all [border sizes] on mobile and full site are all same width size with no issues.

      mikel.
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      Mikel Coreclark Hello again.
      Ive just been informed by a member, the problem is also on my 'mobile view' but it affects the 'recent videos' section on landing page.

      Although the functions do work, its just the width size that not correct.

      so I think for now il revert back to factory settings.
      mikel.
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      Mikel Coreclark Hello people.
      On my landing page ( link above majuuna ) Recent Groups on the right hand side of screen, my column is not the same width as the others. All the settings are correct. so I'm stuck for an answer. any ideas ??

      thanks
      mikel.
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    SEAO, Push Browser Notifications plugin (majuuna.com)
    This is your site's landing page. Majuuna
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      Gabry This plugin is new on SE stores and i think in the future developers will improve it .. a very nice idea will be to make this plugin to work by following the user Cookies like google is working ... if you search for something often on google then you will see Ads about that thing almost on all the websites that you browse and has google ads ... if this can work in this way imagine that if you have an user that is mainly looking on your website for videos with tags like cars-garage-parts-wheels-racing, then the plugin can "read" this and send him notifications about new videos with this tags.It will be incredible if developers can make it to work in this way.
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      Gabry Hi Mikel, push notifications plugin is a very nice and powerful tool but i think we need to use it in a smart way to make the users come to us not make them angry and run away .. we all know that receive notifications can be also closed by the users, so i think that if you will use it to advertise, some of the users will get angry and close "the communication" with your community ... the best will be to use advertising on your website widgets and take advantage of push notifications to make the people access again your website and they will see those Ads in there ...finally in my opinion, try to use push notifications in a way that you make the user curious and he will click and come to your website... using notifications as an advertise tool is not that a good idea ... as we all know, they invented Ad Block specially for YouTube, because they are very annoying with Ads every few seconds... you don't want to happen the same with your community. If i will be one of your users and you will "shoot" me with advertising things thru notifications, i will go fast to settings and close notifications from your website. But this is just my idea please don't get me wrong ... best wishes and good luck !
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      Mikel Coreclark Hello Folks.
      I am very much thinking of getting a Push Browser plugin.
      SEAO has great reviews, this makes me happy. What I really want to know is how it is working for members, has anyone got any feedback about Push.
      I'm thinking of using push as tool for advertising purposes.

      thanks
      mikel.
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    theme (re-size) (majuuna.com)
    This is your site's landing page. Majuuna
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      Gabry Hi Mikel .. what you want to do is actually just playing with some .css codes and i believe you it looks hard if you don;t know how, but is easy to do it ... what you need to keep in your mind is that in this day;s the "Responsive" option is very important as more and more people are using mobile devices ...so beside the customize that you make for theme to look good on desktop , you also need to test your custom on mobile devices if you care about this ... if you create a custom code that appears good on desktop but bad on mobile then you need to create a file called for example media-queries.css and insert in there the same code that appears good on desktop but bad on mobile and adjust it by the required width device ...i don't want to make you dizzy but keep this in your mind that what you will do to appear good on desktop will not always appear good also on mobile if you don't setup the codes separately per width device that is used to see your website.
      For example if you modify the width of left-right widgets to be bigger, then on mobile devices they can be out of area. You can solve this by insert the code of widgets width in media-queries.css using the width of the device, and for mobile phone usually is 480px,380px,320px or tablets as 680px or 720px
      @media screen and (max-width:480px)
      {widget width code here}

      Hope you have made an idea about playing with css codes also being responsive, or if you don;t want to play like this then you can buy a plugin for mobile devices, but is not that cheap and doesn't worth to buy it if you have an website on the start without too many users etc . ... note that i gave it to you this info's in the "big view" from up as i can;t write an A4 page in here .. good luck and feel free to ask more.
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      Donna Thanks for the tips Mikel. One tip to check too is the Column Width modifier widget. It allows you to resize your columns without needing to code to do it. Perhaps that will help you with some of the white space.
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      Mikel Coreclark Hello Friends.
      just to start off, I am not a tech so my knowledge is worth checking and not to be used as factual tech knowledge.

      For a while I have been not happy with some themes. the themes are great but just did not feel right to for my site. In particular: 1, the amount of spacing around the edges of the screen ( wasted space ) 2, the size of the images in events and member brows ( 3 images per rowe: images too big for no real reason that I can see )

      So I have been playing with a couple of cloned themes.(insignia, default, clean, midnight)
      In my 3rd trial using theme [quantum blue] below is what I changed the sizes too. this seems to work and fit my screen desktop / mobile.
      now I can get event / member images at 4 images per line which looks better with no wasted space on my screen. I'm not knowing how this looks on other desktop screens or mobile devices but will like to know.

      Image sizes ive not worked out yet, so if any knows where I need to look for that section let me know.

      So just as idea / tip if a theme do not look / feel right it could be worth altering this section or the main colours .

      These are what I changed the numbers to:
      PAGE WIDTHS & BACKGROUND COLOR

      Specify the top bar wrapper width (which contains the mini menu, logo, and main menu

      by default), the footer width, and the width of left & right-side columns.

      */

      theme_topbar_minimenu_width: 1240px;

      theme_topbar_logo_width: 1240px;

      theme_topbar_menu_width: 1240px;

      theme_footer_width: 1240px;

      theme_content_width: 1240px;

      theme_content_columns_left_width: 185px;

      theme_content_columns_right_width: 220px;

      theme_body_background_color: UNCHANGED
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    events (pause / suspend ) (majuuna.com)
    This is your site's landing page. Majuuna
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      Mikel Coreclark Hello. ive notice that on Events, there is no option to Pause / Suspend events by member creators.
      as an issue has arisen at a venue, I needed to pause or suspend all events but was not able to. I could only block views by members.

      I think there should be an option other than edit or delete.

      mikel.
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    Image resize (majuuna.com)
    Majuuna
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      Mikel Coreclark Hello all
      I am wanting to make the images in events and members smaller. Ideally half the size as standard.
      Question: where in my theme should I look to change the px ?
      thanks
      mikel
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    Upgrades v4.9.2 (p1) (majuuna.com)
    This is your site's landing page. Majuuna
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      Donna This is a patch for clients that upgraded and had servers that aren't updated. We recommend not using old PHP versions. However, as we didn't want to require clients using deprecated PHP versions (PHP 5.2 - 5.5) to have to upgrade their server php, we made this patch as those old versions were not working fine. If you've upgraded already, you don't need this unless your host isn't keeping their PHP updated.
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      Mikel Coreclark Hello.
      Ive just noticed that there are new patches just released: photo albums v4.9.2 p1, social engine v4.9.2 p1, socengphp upgrade v4.9.2 p1...changed since yesterday.
      are there any more alterations coming ???
      thanks
      mikel
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    V4.9.1 + v4.9.2 (majuuna.com)
    This is your site's landing page. Majuuna
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      Donna When we make releases, if we need to update files in a plugin, it will have a new release number. For the ones without new release numbers, they are fine and don't need updating. :)
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      Mikel Coreclark Hello. I see we have a new v4.9.2 :O)

      Also I see that a couple of plugins are still v4.9.1 . are these going to be upgraded also at a later date ?
      mikel.
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    Security Tip (majuuna.com)
    Here's a security tip for everyone.
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      Donna That's a great tip. It's always best to call and confirm before giving any details. There are many scams now-a-days. I'm always called by "windows support" which has been a scam forever.

      The scam you mention could cause people to give sensitive information that they shouldn't be giving out. When in doubt, hang up and call a manager of the company that is supposedly contacting you.
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      Mikel Coreclark Hello All. Mikel here.
      I know this post my appear odd on the forum but please read on..

      Today I was telephoned by a man claiming to be from my Internet service provider.
      This man said that my IP address was being used to send out illegal emails and services and that he needed my account details for my IPS account and my Host server account to combat the issue or I will be prosecuted.

      As by now you may be aware of the malware threat that has gripped the world (mostly those computers using [ windows xp or windows with out the latest security]. well the criminals are circling like sharks to gain access to your computers and servers.

      PLEASE BE AWARE> spread the word to all your site members not to give out any details and be Vigilant.

      If we can do our bit to protect our selves and our server hosts and site members, we can help put a stop to the threat.

      thanks
      mikel
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    Theme ( members / events size alterations) (majuuna.com)
    This is your site's landing page. Majuuna
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      Mikel Coreclark Hello people.
      I am interested to know if I could change the size layout on my theme.
      I know I can change the number of people / events listings on the relevant search pages. So far they are both set by SE at 10 as default.
      I would like to get at least 25 to 30 listings per page.
      So question is:
      theme is SE Clean theme v4.9.1
      1: where on the theme is the sections I need to be looking at. (theme, constants, )
      2: what is the sizes I may need to shrink them to.
      3: is this at all possible ?

      Color change:
      same question about changing the themes color.

      I have looked in the themes (theme,constants) but not sure if I'm looking in the right location.

      many thanks
      mikel
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    Themes ( delete ) (majuuna.com)
    This is your site's landing page. Majuuna
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      Donna Good to know that this worked fine for you. :)
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      Mikel Coreclark Hei friendly people.
      I am cleaning up my themes.
      Some I can delete from my site but there are some themes I do not see an option to delete unwanted themes.
      example: Grid, Kandy, music box, quantum: (all colors)

      How cani delete these themes ?

      thanks
      mikel.
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    video (content blocked) (majuuna.com)
    This is your site's landing page. Majuuna
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      Mikel Coreclark Hello People.
      Mikel here.
      I just have an idea. On video admin settings members do not have the rights to delete other member videos, this is good..
      How ever, could there be another option other than delete for members.
      Can we give members the ability to stop the playing or seeing of questionable video content.
      Example: porn, distasteful content or videos that break T&Cs.
      If a member came across a video and thought " well that should not be on here" then they can click on a command button like 'delete' or 'report' and then the video would be unplayable and blacked out so no member can play or see the video (only admin can play and see video) and a notification would be sent to admin to check it out and only then can it be deleted or permitted by admin.

      thanks
      mikel
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    Events (search) (majuuna.com)
    This is your site's landing page. Majuuna
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      Mikel Coreclark Hello. I just had another idea.
      Can we have the events search option the same as members search. this way we can add our own search questions.

      If there is a way to copy and transplant the members search script into events , is this possible ??
      mikel.
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      Mikel Coreclark Just to add an addition to my previous.
      Times section: add a choice for: TBC To Be Confirmed.
      This would help eventers if a set time is not able to be placed at same time as event notice.
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      Mikel Coreclark Hello good people.
      I have looked in events settings and do not see any option to add search questions (or maybe I'm looking in wrong place)
      I am just wondering if there is any option (on v4.9.1) to add a search criteria option to Events Search.
      Example: 'event venue'
      This way people can look up a specific venue as well as a location or a specific event.

      thanks
      mikel
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