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Altering your forum for real life events?
11-15-2007, 05:54 PM
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Title: Forum Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,622 Location: Holmfirth, England    
|  Altering your forum for real life events? Do you alter your forums looks or design for an event? By this I don't mean massive things, like Christmas or New Years, but for smaller things, like Charity days? I'm personally quite a charitable person, and alter my forum theme just slightly to add a logo for the charity, and a link or something to it. Am I the only one that does things for charities? Anyway, Friday in the UK is Children In Need day, so I altered my forum slightly. Here is the image of it now.  So, do you do anything like this for small or charitable events? Related Links (cause I'm so charitable) BBC - BBC Children In Need - Children In Need Then my site, if you wish to view the small edits first hand Rollin' Patrol Forums - Home Of The Rollin' Patrol
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11-15-2007, 08:31 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 1,354 Location: Spring, Texas | Nope, I've never done. How is it working out for you? | ||||
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11-15-2007, 08:42 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,622 Location: Holmfirth, England
| Well, it doesn't really "work out" as such, but it may help the charity in some way and help them work out. (As the image has a link to the site, as does the bit of text below forum links)
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11-15-2007, 08:49 PM
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 | I havent edited the style but i have made announcements for charity's or donation collections for families of drunk drivers. I also helped a local charity / non-profit org setup their own forum and stuff | |
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11-16-2007, 06:27 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 10,246 Location: Athens, GA | I definitely think it adds a nice touch. If you've got special events in mind and know of a good way to add something unique for the event, then I say go for it. We've done some stuff to the logo around Christmas time, but not much more than that...and we also don't do holidays because we have a global audience and not everybody celebrates the same holidays. So, come "Christmas time", we put snow on the forums. If you live in Australia, too bad 
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11-19-2007, 08:36 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 740 Location: New Zealand | I don't change the look, but always add a thread about the topic. As i've got members from all over the world except for those 'big' events, it's hard.
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11-19-2007, 11:14 PM
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Title: Forum Addict
Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,357 Location: United Kingdom 
| I've never changed my logo for real life events apart from Christmas & Halloween and if i can find something suitable Easter. Its nice that some forum owners do it though 
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11-24-2007, 01:52 AM
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Title: Apprentice
Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 431 Location: Central Ohio, USA | I typically only change the logo for Christmas. Other than that, it pretty much stays the same year round, with a few screenshot changes every now and then. | ||||
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11-24-2007, 04:06 AM
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| i added a little snow to talk Delaware Talk Delaware is your source for chat, news, and information in Delaware | |
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