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I think this is a great idea. I'm new to the area and interested in all sorts of stuff, so I hope we can get this forum up and running soon. I work from home (in Friern Road) and I'm a website editor. I'd like to find out more about all aspects of enjoying oneself in the area. Comedy, music, eating, drinking, sport, art, socialising, shopping...


Oh, and who can give me a decent haircut round here?

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Thanks Adam, any help in promoting/contributing/helping with this site is greatly appreciated.


Haircut, my girlfriend cuts mine so I can't recommend a hairdressers locally but I've heard that Willis B on Lordship Lane is pretty good

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Yeah Mark, it's a great idea!


Just to let people know about the new East Dulwich blog I've set up. The idea is to give reviews of local bars/ restaurants and discuss local news and goings on. www.eastdulwichlife.blogspot.com


Adam - really good hairdresser is Lacey at Willis B on Lordship Lane.

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You read my mind Nic! I'm thinking of taking chatter off and replacing it with an events section (like has been mentioned before) but I'm still searching for a calendar that can plug into this Phorum without too much requirement for being a techie. In the meantime I might put the "5 latest posts" on the homepage to fill the space.
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Hi EDKiwi


I'm looking into adding the 'in body image facility' but it's a bit tricky. In the meantime you can add pictures that are elsewhere on the web by clicking on the image.gif picture and entering its URL (you have to be registered to see this)


I'll try it below with a photo of East Dulwich, sorry, Sipadan:



sipadan_oct_2006.jpg

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Good point Tom, we'll try and set it up this week. I think we're going to lose the What's on in East Dulwich section as it's not being used. We haven't the time or money to approach people to encourage them to post their event so we can certainly put a 'classified/for' sale board up in it's place and see how that goes


thanks


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Its a consideration that we looked into and having researched this for a previous job we know that the majority of people are used to reading down and expect replies to a message below that messages. Having said that some do like to read the last/latest message first. A Top Tip to help, on the list of topics page e.g. here, under the heading Last Post it will typically say something like:


Today, 01:17PM

Last Post by Alex


Last post is actually a link to the last post,


I hope you find this a worthy compromise


yours


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Dear Mark


Great site! Can I ask - do you do this full-time or is it just a hobby? Also what gave you the idea to set it up and do you see this growing into a site where businesses can advertise?

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Thank you Kate, I'm glad you like the site. It's just a hobby, I have a full-time Web Manager job that pays the bills, unfortunately this forum doesn't. The site came about from the fact that I'm a bit nosey and like to know what's going on, I like to whinge about things that aren't right, wanting to find out more about East Dulwich and the people that live here and, without trying to sound too sickly, I wanted to do something for the community. It's quite a busy site now and I have to do proper, mature things like weekly back-ups in case something goes terribly wrong and all the postings disappear. I also like tinkering with the site and I have to stop myself from adding unnecessary widgets and things that would just clutter it up. Simplicity works here.


Advertising, hmmm, there's a question. I am going to start allowing it for the right companies (see here on the help page) but also I want to keep the list of ten or so recommended businesses, local companies that don't pay to be listed but are just recognised as being genuinely good.


I hope that answers your question and thanks for using the forum.


Mark

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Mark,


Having read the number of recommendations for ''that place on X street'' or ''near goose green'', I am thinking that a taggable Google map of East dulwich / surrounding area would be really useful, and i believe not so hard to set up.


This way we can have dedicated maps for each subject, eg, eating, drinking, shopping, DIY, sites of historical relevance, routes to walk-off dinner, where the tags link through to relevant posts from the forum.


If anyone wants to see what it looks like, just go to http://maps.google.co.uk/maps and type in ''Bars SE22''.

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Hi Joe


you're right, maps showing the local areas of interest would be useful, we've looked into various ways to improve this site and this is one of the main ones. We need to find a way to smoothly incorporate it into the forum, perhaps on the local info page have links to the various maps you listed above. It's not too hard to set up, we've got our Google API key and instructions but it takes time which we don't have especially as the day job's about to get really busy. If there's anyone out there who can help us please do let us know.


Thanks for the suggestion


Mark

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When I access the forum home page (not using the back button) it tends to prioritise a version of the page cached on my PC rather the collect an updated one from the server. However, when I access other sites (such as the BBC homepage) it'll take a fresh version as a priority - is this a setting for the site that it might be worth altering?


Incidentally, did you ever get any designs for the page headers?

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I've added a 'no-cache' directive on the pages so that your browser should collect the latest version of each page each time you visit. Hopefully. Please let me know if works or not.


I did get one logo from a lovely lady called Kelly which was a typographic mark of 'edf' which I haven't implemented. Although it was impresive it'll be good to get a few other options...

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As mentioned above, its a consideration that we looked into and having researched this for a previous job I know that the majority of people are used to reading down a page and expect replies to a message below that message. Having said that some do like to read the last/latest message first so I've put on the list of topics page e.g. here, under the heading Last Post it will typically say something like:


Today, 03:06PM

sml_msg_icon.jpgLast Post by mockney piers


Last post is actually a link to the last post,


I hope you find this a worthy compromise


Mark

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Mark, I reckon you were right to choose that, I prefer this layout now to the ones that worked the other way!


On another note I notice that our own Moriarty, the SE5 forum, allow users a photo by-line and score peeps by stars depending on their effectiveness at McDonalds. Is that quite fun?


We did this when I was over in Beijing and it caused no end of hilarity ;-)

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