• Private Topics:
  • Start a private topic from a member's profile, by clicking "Whisper" on their post and selecting "Quote post to a new Private Topic with this member," or from your account by selecting "Start a Private Topic" and entering the desired username.
  • Participate in the topic just like a regular forum topic.
  • You will receive notifications for new posts in your private topics.
  • Topics can be moved to the "Trash" category or other categories of your choosing for organization.
• Inline Personal Posts (Whispers):
  • Send a private message within a public topic by clicking "Whisper" on a post and selecting "In-topic personal post to this member."
  • Whispers are visible only to the sender and recipient, and the whispered post is highlighted.
  • Receive notifications for new whispers.

• Data type: Choose the appropriate field type for the data you want to collect (text, numbers, dates, etc.).
• Comcode support: If you need rich text formatting or translation support, opt for fields that support Comcode.
• Validation: Some field types offer built-in validation to ensure data accuracy.
• Privacy implications: Be mindful of the sensitivity of the information and whether it requires specific privacy considerations.

• Use specific field types: Utilize dedicated field types for sensitive data like member IDs, usernames, emails, IP addresses, and passwords for efficient handling by the privacy system.
• Enable "May contain personal information": Mark fields that may contain personal information, enabling the privacy system to identify and handle such data during purging or downloading.

• eCommerce catalogues: Integrate with the Composr shopping cart for online stores.
• Classified ads: Offer features like archival categories and usergroup-specific advert durations.

• Title lists: Simple lists of entry titles linking to the full entry page.
• Field-maps: Highly flexible, displaying as many fields as you desire within the category view.
• Tabular listings: Organizes entries into columns, suitable for short data fields.
• Grids of images: Displays entries as a grid of images, ideal for visual catalogues.

written many tutorials via Arvixe

Made some key contributions to ocPortal

None available

Wrote many tutorials via Arvixe

Coded the chatroom, blogging support, the analytics system, and OcCLE (now Commandr)

Masters Degree in Computer Science degree from The University Of Cambridge

Other work has included helping out with Firefox, and ongoing work on GNOME

Original designer for ocPortal

Also conceived and coded the Theme Wizard and Point Store

Son of one of the early inventors of Internet protocols (Usenet, aka Internet newsgroups)

Token non-brit

Ran some of the early websites where ocPortal came from

Technically the original developer of ocPortal, in that he wrote the first few lines of code

Heavily involved in the feature design process

Hosted some of our early meet-ups

Original developer of ocPortal, former lead developer of Composr CMS

Masters degree in Computer Science from The University Of Sheffield

Undertaken work for over 15 FTSE-100 companies, as well as many small and mid-sized organisations. Includes a number of banks and major brands.

@gamerevolt