How about breaking up the Back Surgery and Neck Surgery Topic?
Under PAIN Category we have;
Lower Back Pain
Neck Pain: Cervical
Upper Back Pain, Thoracic
Under TREATMENT Category we have;
Back Surgery and Neck Surgery
The PAIN Category is well organized into the 3 major Topics of Upper, Mid, Lower back issues. The TREATMENT is 1 big lump for Surgery. It takes too long to get through to sort out the type of surgery you are interested in. Just look at the Post and Reply count on that section. It is so far imbalanced compared to any other section.
So how about we have 3 sections here also?
Under TREATMENT Category we would have;
Lower Back Surgery (Lumbar, L1-L5, S1-S3)
Mid Back Surgery (Thoracic, T1-T12)
Neck Surgery (Cervical, C1-C7)
Now the Pain and Treatment sections follow a common structure. It also makes it much easier for a person to find what they are looking for without reading through every type of spine surgery there is.
I know there are an awful lot of posts in that topic but maybe if you agree to break it out. You move everything to the new 3-way split that is say, 6 months old and newer. Something like that.
Graham
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I am sorry I havent gotten back sooner to respond.
I hear and understand where you are coming from with this.
However, the amount of work and restructure the forum categories and posts is not a trivial item to take on.
I say that really in looking at the end results. I have no problems taking on a big project as long as in the final product there was some substantial gain.
Making the changes you proposed would lead to a crispy setup.
Part of the problem is that when the site was first put together there were only 2 or 3 Forums inside a Forum Category. As time went on additional forums were setup and even a new categories. On the old site (PunBB) it was as easy as adding a new forum or category and then start posting away.
Now with the new site (Drupal, ok Graham I know that is one of your favorite topics) you can still add forums and categories, BUT there needs to be URL-Alias actions taken, plus a list of different things to do before making it live.
NOW, If that is not done, you will not always been able to click on a category to get what you expect.
We will toss this one around a bit
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I expected this to be a rather large request. I just keep on looking over that section more lately. It is so busy with all the types of surgery. Just makes logical flow in my mind to split it up to match the other section.
I was hoping Drupal would be more helpful for restructuring and changes like this. Most certainly breaking up a year plus will be time consuming. I was thinking a migrated approach where you split up say the last 3 months worth. Just to get the 3 groups built. Then let people use those until the original one becomes old and dated. Then just roll it off or archive it off. Similar to when we moved from Pun to Drupal.
Since Drupal has a rather large following now and developers writing tools. Maybe their are some readily available tools to help with this?
Graham
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In a PURE DRUPAL environment there are.. But you have to remember Spine-Health is not a straight forward web site. Drupal being used as the Context Manager accounts for the forums and parts of the site. There are so many interactions with different pieces that its not black and white as it may seem.
I have a Drupal site only for Forums and I was able to move things around at will, almost as easy as it was with PunBB.... BUT the CSS Style sheet is pretty vanilla, once I started coding some changes, things went differently. Then when I attempted to load a dummy Spine-Health style sheet, lets not even talk about my results
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Seems like you are building a monster that you can only care and feed. I'm sure there must be lots of other forum functionality you can't do.
I'm not up on CSS and honestly don't want to be. Web programming does nothing for me. I definitely respect the talent required to do it. I played with things like Dreamweaver. Great for rapid development. It just wasn't exciting. So now I just play around with poor mans CFD programs. That is so dry and boring.... kinda like Cobol
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