NinjaBoard Countdown to launch: Day 9

The Forums Backend have recieved a nice upgrade.

Instead of dull, gray text, we now got customizable fancy labels! But that's just one of the news, more details and screenshots after the break.

Forums | NinjaBoard | Admin Cyberdyne hosted by Ember

Follow up:

Forums view in APLite

Forums | NinjaBoard | Admin Cyberdyne hosted by Ember

Forums view on NinjaBoard 0.5.3

NinjaForge Joomla 1.5 Demos - Administration hosted by Ember

The new labels makes it much easier to see how the permissions are setup on each forum.

The new sortables also helps ease the task of setting up your forums.

And we've stopped nesting "Categories" and "Forums" under "Board", and give both their own menu link instead.

You can set your own label colors and character length in the default settings. The current color setting is pictured below:

Setting | NinjaBoard | Admin Cyberdyne hosted by Ember

You can use any color format that's possible with CSS. We might add a color picker if there's time for it. An alternate setting pictured below:

Setting | NinjaBoard | Admin Cyberdyne hosted by Ember

Forums view with alternate label settings

Forums | NinjaBoard | Admin Cyberdyne hosted by Ember

On to edit screens, we've reworked most of the interface, and added the ability to pick your own icon.

Edit screen in Khepri

Forum | NinjaBoard | Admin Cyberdyne hosted by Ember

Edit screen in APLite

Forum | NinjaBoard | Admin Cyberdyne hosted by Ember

Edit screen on NinjaBoard 0.5.3

NinjaForge Joomla 1.5 Demos - Administration hosted by Ember

We're taking a break from blogging over the weekend, but no worries as we return on Monday. Make sure you don't miss Day 6 as we'll reveal more of the new template system (that lets you install NB templates through the core installer). And over the course of next week we'll let you download the RC to iron out the last few bugs.

If you missed Day 14, click here for some frontend eyecandy to look at in the meantime ;)

Have a great weekend!