Dolphin 7 (Hookie). Alpha Build 16.
One more update of Hookie Alpha today. Some interesting things to look at, most importantly...
- Privacy settings. So far you can touch them at Sites and Feedback modules. it's only a start - we're improving them now and will add to all modules. Members will able to make content public or private, and restrict it to friends/members or predefined groups.
- Member menu is gradually improving - a little smaller now, has tooltips, red-counters, some fixes and will soon have built-in messenger.
- Notifications will now appear as Growl-like pop-ups in upper-right corner of the site and will be reflected in member menu.
- Events now have administration module for owner. Similar "admin block" concept will be deployed on all modules, so that members could easily add/edit/delete content on their pages, like photos, blog, articles, etc.
- Membership purchase interface, shopping cart, payments administration are now being added and you can give it a glance. Payment/cart functionality is palnned to be site-wide and can be used for Store, Ads, even Photos, if needed.
- Account/Dashboard is being redesigned too. It will also have site/friends tracker, similar to what you see at facebook.
- We test some changes in navigation menu, such as "icons" instead of test for some tabs and search-in-tab. We'll see how it goes.
- Sites module is getting better, with new subtabs, such as Featured and Hot-or-not.
- Current location feature added to profile-map (Google Maps)
- Youtube embeds for video, they now work same as native site videos, with their own pages.
- Some fixes in media uploads and other site features... many of them.
All-in-all it's pretty hot here. 7.0 and now 6.1.5 are all around us, day and night. Great times. Stay tuned.
The new Dolphin solution is powered by UNA Community Management System.
^^^^^^ oops i think someone made an error
Please clarify.
Try clicking any of the video thumbnails and it gives this error:
checkAction() fatal error. Unknown action ID: 0
Also, the new icons in the navgation menu look good altough the one for the search box is inappropriate. It does not need to come under an icon. It will look much better if the search box is placed under the QUOTES in the header rather than the navigation menu. Looks a little mismatched.
http://www.demozzz.com/dolphin7a/search.php?show=birthdays
There is a "bread-crumb" ... HOME > PEOPLE > SEARCH
We think its not needed there. The sub-menu already shows you that you are in the PEOPLE category so from a design point of view the bread crumbs they don't make any aesthetic sense.
i am listed a top rated for Day on the male side as well as the female side.
enjoy and have a great time!
Thanks a lot, you made my day by adding that feature in D7. But as other people reported, its not working currently, but I think that would be fixed soon.
For the first time, I really like the way the 'member menu' displays now..it looks pretty good !!!
Great Work Guys...
Your post is very unclear. There are tons of dating scripts available online, just type it into google. However, if you don't want to wait for Dolphin 7, try using Dolphin 6.1.4 or wait a few days for Dolphin 6.1.5. These are very good social networking scripts that can also be used for a dating script. However, you will need to do some major modifications to your index page. If you can't do this, find a script elsewhere.
http://www.wazzum.com
Their customer service is the best of any software company I have seen. The software is top notch with video chat.
http://www.abk-soft.com
Horrible customer service but the dating (not social networking) software mostly works. Just don't count on friendly support and they do not give refunds.
video upload failed (file error)
and why upload? i dont want this youtube video on my server... i just want to stream it from my website as an EMBED video...
the membership is also missing... i cant test the payment gateway system because there is no package in the membership section...
but for the icon and the popup info menu... this is perfect!!
i just cant wait for the 7.0 !!
but it will be possible to update from 6.1.5 to 7 ?
thx
nice work about new Member menu, Privacy settings, Account/Dashboard
about navigation menu I think nice design but if you add icon it will need to expan when the mouse move over it as like the bar ..
I have suggestion for the member menu : I wish add the language icon to it and remove it from the navigation menu I think it will be fave
about Account/Dashboard .. great design but I wish add friend activity below mail box .. I think it's important
thank you see more
I'm really impressed since I was last on demozzz.com/dolphin7a a couple of weeks back.
I'm pretty sure that everyone will be happy when its out for all.
Member verification photo upload module would be nice, especially for juveniles website below the age of 16 to give the kids a bit security as well as the admin.
Which is of course good as well for dating sites and shopping cart.
Thank you all for your great work and the countless see more
I have never seen so many angry people on this forum tell lately. Take your personal problems to im or email,we all are trying to help with this awesome software and have no use for children on this site! This is NOT a playground see more
when I click on my video from the profile http://www.demozzz.com/dolphin7a/video/gallery/Ken-Block-2009-03-14
then I get
checkAction() fatal error. Unknown action ID: 0
When I click on Membership I have a database error.
Thats a greate way to generate traffic from the biggest community.
but I think what is lacking in dolphin
it is the search by region / state
I do not understand why you do not add
for sites that are a single country - the members love to be able to see and looking for members close
you add;
fetured - options --
Country + country + country
People Search - Options
Country + country + country
why not change to:
fetured - options --
Country + region or state + department or counties
add fields on the see more
Keep up the awsome work...can't wait for the release
And maybe have the count on there too... like 3 of 37 so that you know see more
I presume this also means an Event organiser can optionally have a shopping cart to take booking payments with their own payment service provider account. eg Paypal.
That would be PERFECT !!
In account control next to the profile picture there's one digit missing for birthday. In profile it shows correct though
http://www.demozzz.com/dolphin7a/explanation.php?explain=membership&type=2
i found strange phrases started with __
I have a small suggestion btw..
- On the floating menu > notifications tab - would be nice if the member could click on the alerts..
like "Your photo rated" - then when you click the link should open the page of that photo.
If there are new comments the link should open that page and navigate inside until it reaches the respective line where the comment starts..
This way you see more
The event's participant doesn't work
For instance, when browsing through photos and videos and you get to page 50 or something and decide you want to view that image. So you click it, take a peek then hit the browsers back button and your back to page one again and have to start over.
They should be taken back to the last page they were on, not the first page. This problem exists in dolphin 6 also.
i want to start translating it as soon as possible.
and
what will happen to old translations?
do we have to translate all script again ?
sorry for my english : )
Speaking of forums, I hope my suggestion that events include an instance of Orca, or at least, threaded comments.
See : http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3493/45945076.jpg
http://www.demozzz.com/dolphin7a/music/gallery/Adam-Lambert-Mad-World
http://www.demozzz.com/dolphin7a/music/gallery/Beyonce-Halo
Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /home/demoz/public_html/dolphin7a/modules/boonex/events/classes/BxEventsFormEdit.php on line 70
Also it would be great to choose either end date of event that will go over a number of days OR time of a party for example.
Looking good
Would it be possible to add a business directory layer to Dolphin 7.0?
My community is very large and I want the members to use all services the site provides for free. To make this possible I want my dolphin driven site supported by the local business to this communty! And there around 200 of them!
So my idea is that business's could choose from (x) amount of listing styles tailored by site owner.
For example:
[Basic Listing]
-feature, feature, feature
[Intermediate see more
You can see a demo on my site here: http://houstonlively.com/directory.php
Do a search for 'golf' and click on the sample ad I created. Feel free to click on the thumbnails, visit website link, and view larger map link. I added lytebox to jazz up photo viewing. You can also see frontend and backend demos on the developers site.
I'm just going to have businesses register seperately to place ads in see more
It is easy to set up a social site - but without content, no one will join - I am sure a lot of you have experienced this. Preset profiles would be awesome! But none the less, to be able to batch add content to this site would be really great! Also - a Youtube Video feed that looks like it is coming from your Dolphin site - I have one see more
Is Dolphin 7.0 being designed with any of the following parameters:
1. Ability for future 7 upgrades to be dowloaded from boonex in a compressed .exe wizard format which could then be seemlessly uploaded using the .exe wizard (without the requirement for a Boonex software owner to be a developer or programmer to do an upgrade).
2. A protected/integrated addon section so that addon modules that have been installed to a site are not overwritten/deleted or disabled by an upgrade of the see more
Sounds like something out of a Harry Potter novel.
Most larger software houses use upload wizards to manage compressed files for upgrading software.
Just makes the upgrade process uncomplicated and seemless.
1. increasing loading speed of the website
2. increasing speed of MySQL queries
3. use more caching
4. clean up the directory: reduce the number of directories and possible places for CSS and JS files
5. remove PHP code from HTML templates
6. split HTML into more modular files for more flexible layout changes without having to touch the source code.
Every Dolphin website looks the same, due to the limitations you have. You can see more
1. increasing loading speed of the website
2. increasing speed of MySQL queries (install DBTuna and look at the aggregated top queries)
3. use more caching
4. clean up the directory: reduce the number of directories and possible places for CSS and JS files
5. remove PHP code from HTML templates
6. split HTML into more modular files for more flexible layout changes without having to touch the source code.
Every Dolphin website see more
Also, many of the comments here i'd agree with - one the big problems is speed and cleanliness of the structure and code - wordpress is so successful because it's so simple - a non developer can find their way around code and edit it from within a web interface.
The transparanet menu on see more
HAVE THE ABILITY TO SALE EVENT TICKETS ON EVENTS PAGE,. FOR CONCERTS, SHOWS ECT..
1) Nickname availability check at signup
2) Photo upload at signup
3) Photo verification system (members can see who is real)
4) Anti-scammer system like AntonLV's mod http://www.expertzzz.com/Downloadz/view/2891
5) Access management system like AntonLV's mod http://www.expertzzz.com/Downloadz/view/406
D7 is on it's way to the top for sure ;)
For my site this would be great as I want to sell beats/songs and also want to allow my members to do so. I as an admin will setup a commission per sale. Either flat rate or a percentage of the price. As it will be mp3 it would have to have the abbility to make a preview of the beat or song uploaded. see more
Dressing the Home Page Dolphin 7.0 Important
For a community it is very important of having a chapter affiliation Ads wrapping all pages SEO services, the site provides for free. To dress this, former French Dailymotion Video! Dressing homepages Ads
So my idea is that the moderator Administrator, and then displays the official theme of advertising sponsors may elect to (x) the time to display the list of custom styles by (x) background header pad see more
I'm sure there are lots of people who wants to know which settings are available and make comments.
I run a few photo sites, and If I had the same upload process, I would never get any content from the regular user. What are the plans to revamp this area?
What would be awesome if there was a youtube video feeder with Dolphin . Instead of us posting links, this 'Navigation Tab' would just list latest content from youtube, and allow playing from within the site.
Social Engine has a plugin like this. Check it out here: http://806social.com/vidfeeder.php
There are some software packages that does does - but it would be awesome to be within dolphin so the look doesn't break.
I hope you can add PROFILE MUSIC feature on profile page. Like MySpace profile page. That more be cool.
I wanted to ask if Dolphin 7 will include different languages, such as Spanish.
Also, regarding this blog, it´ll be great to be able to sort messages from latest to oldest, and viceversa. Sometimes, we need to sort them in either way in order to avoid having to go through a long list of replies and comments.
Thanks & regards!!
Hernán
just my opinion... but in general dolphin 7.0 look great :)
Do you know if it´ll be out by July 1st?
Regards,
H.