Welcome to PimpMyForum.nl

NB: This site is hopelessly out of date. For my most recent work in developing a "simple site" where you can edit the menu and all pages, see my own music site Yankadi.nl! And for anyone contacting me on the recent work on dialog boxes, just mail me.

www.femkebloem.nl
Een eenvoudige site met foto's, kunst, verhalen en activiteiten.
Special feature: streaming MP3 audio.

 

www.wiccanrede.silvercircle.org
Een archief met tijdschriftartikelen die kunnen worden gesorteerd op jaargang, auteur, onderwerp, categorie, titel etc. Keus tussen Nederlandse of Engelse artikelen of beide.
Tweetalige introductie en taalkeuze.
Advertenties voor het tijdschrift met random covers.
Implementatie: HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, zonder database. 
 

News

I am in the process of offering my services professionally, so this web site is under construction!

Toolbar enhancements! NEW! June 2008

Some new and brilliant toolbar enhancements with great buttons and popup menu's! More information here.

Sound manager!

A very simple and attractive solution that automatically adds play icons to any mp3 files in posts. No bbcode needed.
Check out the Yankadi site. Works fine with forum pages too, of course, see an example here:.

Complete community solution: Forum plus membership administration!

I am offering my own vastly extended phpBB forum software, which includes a user administration for small companies or magazines, with mass-emailing and mass-mailing facilities and dozens of other features to build communities. This solution would not only give you a top of the range forum with many unique features, but also a membership administration with mailing an email facilities.

Unique is that members themselves can inspect and update their own accounts, for example change of address or change of email, taking a lot of work out of your hands. And there is complete seggregation between forum members and what are called "administrative members". Administrative members can log in, but only to update their own account, not to participate on the forum. They can request upgrading to forum member.
The software has many enhancements to deal with members, including searching, sorting and selecting on many membership criteria, and identical membership lists in user groups and normal forum member lists. The software offers Excel sheet downloading of selected members or full lists, downloading of address details for Word mail merge and paper mailings, mass emailing just a few selected members, or whole groups, also selected on many different criteria, membership administration based on a "region" system where certain people administrate certain members, group administrators and group supervisors, and much much more.

This software is available on the basis of a yearly subscription contract. Price indication: EUR 75,00 - EUR 100,00 p/m ex. VAT depending on the level of service and help you need. This would at minimum include regular updates of the software and new features, help with certain features, tips and tricks, minor custom requests, and free new features that are important enough to be included in the software overall.

Portal / index page and template for your forum

The forum software comes complete with enhanced subSilver theme, in the colours silver (blue), ruby (red) and emerald (green). These are soft light forum themes. A complete new theme based upon my extended phpBB forum code, using elements from your own house style, can be created for your forum. I usually work on a fixed fee agreement. Price indication including some graphics work: EUR 500,00 ex. VAT.

An example of such customisation is my own forum www.silvercircle.org/forum. That consists of a wood background, custom colours for all elements, custom graphic forum elements such as for a topic with new posts, custom images on the top left and bottom right, a custom banner, and a custom layout which incorporates more professional layout features that the original phpBB does.

Drafts and Standard Replies

Allow saving new topics, posts, private messages and emails as drafts and continue with editing and posting later. And create standard replies, text paragraphs, snippets etc. for inclusion in other posts. Read more...

eXtreme Format 

A new feature that allows you to create input forms or templates, with fields, list boxes, radio buttons, checkboxes, labels, explanations, even images. Those input forms can be used instead of the existing subject and message fields, to write and format messages. These forms can have required fields too. You can create as many forms as you like, and best of all, they can be used in private messages too! Now you can use your forum to gather custom formatted and complete help information, error reports, or to publish book or CD , DVD, film or TV show reviews, news and events, all correctly and uniformly formatted!  The use is as simple as adding "template=bookreview" to your posting URL or private message URL to use it!
Price indication: EUR 75,00 all-in. Free installation if requested. Accuracy and some html knowledge needed to create templates. Multi-lingual. One example included.

eXtreme Hide BBCode

Also new is a real power modification for phpBB forums, the eXtreme Hide Mod. A feature that will allow users to hide certain parts of their message from other users and show it selectively. Hiding and showing can be based on post count, topic reply count, user groups, user names, other fields you may have for example user age, user status like guest or registered or moderator, and conditions can be combined with AND, OR and brackets. This is a truly powerful and flexible system! If you want your forum to be public, but want to hide parts of messages from guests or from certain forum members, then this mod is what you need!
The full documentation in the form of a phpBB faq file can be read here: eXtreme Hide BBCode FAQ. This is a commercial mod that you can buy. It comes with free installation if you want, or you can install it yourself. Price indication: EUR 35,00 all-in.

Many more new mods

Many more of my existing new mods will be listed here soon. Some, such as the famous Keep Unread mod, can be downloaded for free, or I will install them for a modest fee. Some have never before been available and are now offered for the first time, for example the option for users to hide or ignore certain forums, and so customise which discussions they want to follow on the forum. Or a handful of bbcode mods, such as an enhanced image bbcode, a column bbcode, a tab or indent bbcode, improved bbcode processing javascript so that buttons insert the opening and closing bbcode at once, making the whole system soooo much easier, and so on. Or a calendar: simply add event data to your topic, and it will show up in the calendar! Repeat events every 1st sunday of the month, every 2nd monday of each quarter, every 31st of May, or many more combinations, and send out event reminder emails to people.

For an overview of most of the mods that are installed on my own forum, please see this page. Please note that you will get all that plus all benefits listed above, if you decide to take advantage of the yearly subscription contract!

Interested? Mail me at Pimp@pimpmyforum.nl !

Note

The phpBB forum software is FREE software, available from www.phpbb.com. I am not selling that software. What I am selling are separate enhancements to that software which are 100% my own work. And I am offering a forum and mod installation service. And I am providing a paid subscription service to the use of my own vastly enhanced phpbb-based software, including service, help, programming expertise and forum updates.
For my contributions and participation in the improvement of the phpBB software you can check out the over 800 topics that I have participated in within the phpBB user- and programmer community.
If all you want is the basic phpBB software with no extra features, you can download that for free and install it yourself.

Web design
I'm currently getting my portfolio together with examples of web sites I've built.
Feel free to get in touch for a free quote for your site!

Banner
Feel free to add a banner to your site, or simply link to www.pimpmyforum.nl.  

To use this banner, copy the image to your own domain (use right click and Save As...) and then use this html code and enter the correct folder:

<a href="http://www.pimpmyforum.nl"><img src="your_image_folder/pimpmyforum_banner.jpg" width="400" height="65" border="0" alt="Pimp my forum" title="Pimp my forum" style="border-width:1; border-style:inset;"></a>

To use this banner, copy the image to your own domain (use right click and Save As...) andthen use this html code and enter the correct folder:

<a href="http://www.pimpmyforum.nl"><img src="your_image_folder/pimpmyforum_sidebar.jpg" width="400" height="65" border="0" alt="Pimp my forum" title="Pimp my forum" style="border-width:1;border-style:inset;"></a>