RavenNuke / PHP-Nuke News

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Theme Released

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35 GMT

The Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Theme is my first theme of 2010 and is a very nice fixed width theme it will accommodate all screen resolution users, it comes with matching forums template, MP3 Block / Module and Popup Player and an interactive Admin Area to easily add songs, I have also included the Bad Company 2 Age Gate Splash Screen

The theme comprises of dark heavily textured images around the outer design, but then comprises of light textured white images to give the whole theme a very nice contrast and easy feel to the user.

Read on for a list of features...

NukeTAGS 2.0 released!

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35 GMT

We are quite proud to announce the immediate availability of NukeTAGS Version 2.0 with *important* bugfixes and enhancements. NukeTAGS is an advanced TagClouds module for your PHP-Nuke CMS or compatible, such as RavenNuke, NukeEvo, etc

NukeTAGS 2.0 ChangeLog - 2010/01/03

Fixed a bug which will cause your database to become full and might corrupt it at some point over time. Thanks to Nico for the report.
Added support to generate TagClouds in Flash, Thanks to Tagul.
Added ability to export TagClouds in XML format to help populate your site from external resources/websites.
TagClouds are now gathered faster and requiring less memory.
Tags in blocks has now a Zoom effect on mouse over, configurable.
Removed borders around logo images.
Fixed 'Division by zero' error generating TagClouds with few tags.
Fixed "NoTagCloud" delimiters which didn't worked properly.
Fixed 'Invalid argument for foreach' error while gathering new pages.
Fixed "NUKE_NOTAGCLOUD" define() usage which didn't worked properly.
Fixed logo link which was pointing to our site by mistake.
Words from the NukeTAGS's module was being gathered as well with as result words in tagclouds being repeated in number of occurrences.
Added a FORM on the module homepage which will allow you and your users to generate random TagClouds from either a provided URL or pasted Text. It can be configured to define which users are allowed to use it (everyone, registered, admins) More advanced features are planned for further releases, feedback is welcome.

Try it online at http://www.meotoo.com/nuketags.html

For further details, please go to http://www.meotoo.com/

Access to Issue Tracker for Montego Scripts projects available for view only

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35 GMT

I have been wanting to do this for quite some time and finally decided to open it up. My original plan was to modify the Project Tracking module to pull its data from my external Mantis issue tracker tool. But, I have finally come to my senses and reality has set in that I just don't the time to write such a thing. I also so not have time to *nukify Mantis to work as a module.

I will be adding specific links to specific projects within my Project Forge pages, but for now, you may simply use the link called Issue Tracker under my Projects section of my site navigation on the left. You may have to click on the "Login Anonymously" link to get in. From there, you can choose the view you wish to see (I default it to the Project News page), from an issues list, the Road Map, Change Log, etc. Also, in the upper right-hand corner of the page you can pick the project you are interested in seeing.

Access will remain read-only. Therefore, ALL bug reports and enhancement request are still to be made within the respective forums. I have, however, opened up a new Forum to capture any specific issues or requests regarding anything about the bug tracking tool or the data within.

I hope the community will find this useful,

montego

Merry Christmas from MeoToo Development!

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35 GMT

Hello everybody!

Here at MeoToo Development we want to wish all you a Merry Christmas and a very happy new year 2010. Also, we want to thank a lot to everyone who has supported us and our works, much appreciated! so that we have started a XMas Promotion for you:

--- 30% discount in ALL of our Products! ---

This promotion will be valid during this week, until the next year. Don't let this opportunity go away! Get them while they're hot! ;-)

For further details, please visit:

http://www.meotoo.com/catalog-shop-specials.html

Happy Holiday from ngnuke.com

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35 GMT

ngnuke.com would like to wish everyone a Happy Holiday and hope you are surrounded by family and friends during this special time of the year. Take some time to just relax and enjoy the little things that mean the most.

Also the site is at the point where i can now take some custom graphics requests for Topic Icons and Csutom Avatars to match your theme. So come on over to www.ngnuke.com and register so you can make your graphics requests. The small things can make a big difference. Let me help you by making some graphics to match your sites theme..

Thank you and Happy Holidays,

webmaster at ngnuke (George Halstead)

www.ngnuke.com

Aion Eternity Theme Released

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35 GMT

Aion : The Tower of Eternity is a very popular MMORPG (massively multiplayer on-line role-playing game) game. This theme "Aion Eternity" takes all those great features of the Aion Game and puts them into a unique one of a kind theme that will impress all of your visitors. The theme compromises of dark blues and contrasting light colours with matching PHPBB forums. The theme is a fixed width theme suitable for screen resolutions above 1024x768 and will still look great with resolutions above 1920x1200.

Features:
Top Navigation Links Bar with Hover Effect (image color changes when you hover over it)
Custom Editable Header Image for your Guilds Name/Logo
Flash MP3 Player Module and Block Fully Admin Integrated (fully styled to match theme)
4 Last Forums posts in header
4 Last News posts in header
Aion Armory Syndication Script Integration
Aion Armory Syndication Forums integration MoD included (not installed)
Aion Armory Search Block
Custom RSS Block
And Much Much More, too much to mention...

Extras:
Blank Header Image And PSD
Matching Flash Clock
Welcome Image and Block + PSD
Your Account Images
And Much Much More, too much to mention...

You can view the Aion Eternity Theme and all of its other unique features.

www.clanthemes.com
Making Clans Look Good

SimpleBlue Icons Released

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35 GMT

I have added a set of over 30 Topic Icons to the downloads section that are 70 X 70 in size and should match the SimpleBlue theme in Ravennuke pretty close. Included is the psd so you can create your own for categories that you may have on your site. Please visit http://www.ngnuke.com and register to download the icons. I will be making other matching icons for the other ravennuke themes as the weekend passes so if you need a vertain set made just request them and i will get them done directly.

Thanks and Merry Christmas,
nextgen (george)
http://www.ngnuke.com

Take home a FREE Koala

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35 GMT

What do French gendarmes, Wikipedia, Google, Spanish school children and San Francisco International airport have in common?

All of them are big users of the free Ubuntu operating system.

The French national police force runs its operations on the open source OS; computer systems supporting Spanish schools have their own version; Google uses Ubuntu internally, the online encyclopaedia runs its hundreds of servers on Ubuntu and SFIA's internal computer system is based around it.

Ubuntu is based on Linux - the open source operating system that is maintained, expanded and extended by legions of fans and professional programmers around the world. Thanks to their efforts Ubuntu has become the most popular of all the Linux distributions.

On 29 October, version 9.10 of Ubuntu is released. All versions of the operating system have an alternative alliterative appellation. Ubuntu 9.10 is known as Karmic Koala. The launch comes in the wake of Microsoft's fanfare around Windows 7 - the latest incarnation of its flagship operating system.

MORE.........

Happy Holidays from NGNUKE

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35 GMT

NGNUKE.com would like to wish all friends and members a very Happy and Safe Holiday. Take some time out to enjoy your family and friends.

Be sure to leave out some cookies for Santa and visit my site for some topic icons or avatars. I am at the point now where i can take some requests for custom Topic Icons or Avatars to match your sites theme. So stop in and register so you can request some graphics to make your site look that much better.

Merry Christmas,

nextgen (George Halstead)
www.ngnuke.com

Fetch as Googlebot

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35 GMT

Ever wondered what your site looked like to Googles crawler? Thanks to a brand new tool from Google, you can now see exactly how your site appears to Googles GoogleBot.
1 - Log-in to your Google account and go to your Webmaster Tools area.
2 - One you are there, you will see a list of your site; just click the link to one of them.
3 - On the left hand side, you will now see the 'Labs' link. Click on that and use the 'Fetch as Googlebot' link.

A 'Pending' notice will appear on the right and shortly afterwards, is replaced by a 'Success' link which you can now click to see exactly how your page looks to Googles bot.

Optimized Project

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35 GMT

Dear friends and Fellow members. I am not sure if you have read my post that i have placed on several sites about my various names and websites and how it had me looking like a bad seed in the PHP-Nuke Community. I have asked that folks give me a second chance and it seems that everyone has a forgiving heart so far. So with that i am at a new starting point at my website.

I am currently starting a Optimized Project and am looking for a few folks who would like to be a part of the project. I am looking for Beta Testers, Graphics Folks and Coders who would like to be a part of the project and to help me bring my name back into a good standing.

If you have any interest in joining the staff and participating in the project please contact me at http://www.ngnuke.com or by Email at vector2@verizon.net.

Thanks for your time and I hope to hear from you soon,

nextgen

Internet language shake up

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35 GMT

The internet is on the brink of the "biggest change" to its working "since it was invented 40 years ago", net regulator Icann has said.

The body said it that it was finalising plans to introduce web addresses using non-Latin characters. The proposal (initially approved in 2008) would allow domain names written in Asian, Arabic or other scripts. The body said if the final plans were approved on 30 October, it would accept the first applications by 16 November.

The first Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) could be up and running by "mid 2010" said the president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann). "Of the 1.6 billion internet users today worldwide, more than half use languages that have scripts that are not Latin-based," said Rod Beckstrom at the opening of Icann's conference in Seoul, South Korea. "So this change is very much necessary for not only half the world's internet users today but more than half, probably, of the future users as the internet continues to spread."

Relaxed rules
Plans for ILDs were approved at a meeting in June 2008. However, testing of the system has been going on for much longer, said Peter Dengate Thrush, chairman of the board in charge of reviewing the change. "You have to appreciate what a fantastically complicated technical feature this is," he said. "What we have created is a different translation system."
The changes will be applied to the net's Domain Name System. This acts like a phone book, translating easily understood domain names such as code-authors.com into strings of computer readable numbers known as IP addresses. The tweaks will allow this system to recognise and translate the non-Latin characters.
"We are confident that it works because we have been testing it for a couple of years," said Mr Dengate Thrush. "We're really ready to start rolling it out."
Some countries, such as China and Thailand, have already introduced workarounds that allow computer users to enter web addresses in their own language. However, these were not internationally approved and do not necessarily work on all computers.

The meeting in South Korea will also discuss its plans to introduce generic Top Level Domains (TLDs), such as .uk or .com. Last year, the body voted to relax rules on TLDs meaning companies could turn brands into web addresses, while individuals could use their names. Icann, set up by the US government, was founded in 1998 to oversee the development of the net. Last month, after years of criticism, the US government eased its control over the non-profit body, signing a new agreement that gave Icann autonomy for the first time. The agreement came into effect on 1 October and puts it under the scrutiny of the global "internet community".

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/technology/8326241.stm

Chrome Topic Icons Released

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35 GMT

Friends i have released a very nice High Quality set of Chrome Topic Icons with the PSD and 50 extra images included so you can add more icons if you need them. The icons are 75 X 70 and will work with Dark and Light Backgrounds alike. While on the site you will also find several more custom sets of graphics made by myself. For a preview of the Topic Icons or to browse the other downloads please visit www.ngnuke.com

If you do need any extra images that i have not included just ask and i will make them for you. Thanks for visiting and Happy Holidays.

Thanks,

nextgen

Free Themes Friday : Business 5 Free Phpnuke Theme

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35 GMT

Nothing better than news reporting on FREE stuff is there, This Free Business 5 PHPNuke Theme is our latest release for Free Themes Friday. Commercial type themes or Business themes that are of any standard are hard to find these days, we have the pleasure to tell you that this theme is released for free to the PHPNuke community.

The theme uses light white colours for the layout and then uses some touches of bright greens and blues to pull the users eye to the side features.

The theme is 100% XHTML compliant and 100% CSS 2.1 compliant.

Includes:

Theme Install File
NukeNav Styling for Ravens Nuke v2.4+
Installation Instructions
Matching Forum Template
Mixed Width Theme
Header PSD
Your Account PSD
Topic Images
Your Account Images
Theme Fonts
Download Logo PSD
Google Api Search Block (Optional)
XML Scrolling Banners Mod (Optional)
Works for Standard Phpnuke 7.6+
Works for Raven Nuke 2.4+

Download the Free Buisness 5 PHPNuke Theme (no registration required)

Releasing Some Scripts

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35 GMT

ThemeFreaks.com has released some N4G scripts from the past that still work great.

TF-RandomBabes (Displays a random babe/image on your site)
TF-JoinUs (Module form for clans/guilds to join with)
TF-DonationsBlock (Easy Nub free donation block)
TF-Support-Troops (Block to support our troops)

You may download these scripts for free )(HERE)(

Aion Theme Release X2

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35 GMT

ThemeFreaks.com has just released a couple more themes based on the new hot game Aion.
Themes are based on races Asmodians and Elyos that way each legion may customize their site to fit what race they play.
Both themes come with matching forums and source files for editing.

Themes may be seen on our DEMO SITE

NSN Group Downloads Again - I Know, Slow Going...

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35 GMT

I just cannot believe how long it has been since I wrote my last news article on the picking up of NSN Group Downloads development again. February of 2009? Oh my. Well, I have picked it up again as I am anxious to get a decent downloads module back in shape and targetted for RavenNuke(tm). (Not to mention really wanting to close out this branch in my subversion repository! LOL.) Hopefully this time around things go better.

Aion Theme Release

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35 GMT

New Theme release based on the game Aion its a nice fast loading theme with matching forums to check it out please drop by

www.themefreaks.com or for a live preview

Tricked Out News 2.4 released

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35 GMT

I am happy to announce the release of Tricked Out News 2.4 for RavenNuke^(tm) 2.40.00. The entire mod has incorporated the RavenNuke^(tm) 2.40.00 modifications and has some new features as well. You can view is HERE and download it HERE.

CSS vertical menu block Released

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35 GMT

Code Authors is pleased to announce the release of a dynamic CSS styled vertical menu block to replace the original side (modules) menu block.
The menu block package includes;

a re-coded block-Modules.php file
a selection of images
stylesheet
installation / modification instruction

The block file and style sheet elements validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 3 compliant.

For those of you using RavenNuke (tm), please enter ravenrocks in the coupon code box and click the 'apply coupon' button for your 100% discount.
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