Installing Indoor Cat Tree

[Mrs Frugal]

I've been prompted by comments about the stickies to do something I meant to do ages ago and have made a couple of new sections at the bottom of the forum. "Announcements" now has all the information about get togethers and we can also put information about the various Omlet competitions etc in. "Special Forum Events" now has the Special Day topic, birthdays list and when it comes to attempts to break the forum number of people online record, we can have that there too as well as any parties.

 

What do you think? Is that OK?

 

The stickies in here were getting rather numerous and most of them were current so couldn't really be made into normal posts so it made sense to create a section for them.

 

If you don't like it, please do say and I'll move them all back again as that's no problem at all. If you can think of anything else which could be put in these sections or if we need any further ones adding, I'd love to hear from you.

[Guest]

Well done Kate. Super pants to the rescue again

 

I'll just have to remember to look in there every so often

[Cinnamon]

I think that works really well - thanks for taking time out on a lovely day like today to sort this out

[Mrs Frugal]

If you can think of any better section names than Announcements and Special Forum Events, please shout! My brain has turned to turnips again!

 

I thought maybe keeping the Announcement section for get togethers and post get together natters and renaming is "Get Togethers". What do you think?

 

Any better suggestions for the Special Forum Events section? "Celebrations" perhaps?? "The Party Zone"?? I don't know !

[chocchick]

Sorry if I've offended you or anyone by discussing the website.

 

I see you've been doing some virtual Spring gardening with the website Kate

 

I think get-togethers would be better than announcements.

It could have the posts of "is anyone going to this show, that event I'm going to" that are not meet-ups as such too.

 

Special forum events could be renamed announcements

it could have birthdays, and announce newsletters that appear, and weddings/babies unless those come under the nesting box my brain hurts

have I got the wrong kind of announcements?

 

Where do announcements about new chicks, pets, eglu go then?

[Egluntyne]

You are a star Kate....whilst you are in spring cleaning mode, I could do with a hand with my son's bedroom!

[bronze]

Could I be cheeky and suggest another section.

Under chickens a faq section about chickens. then all the breeders/vets all the things you might be searching for could all be in one section as a lot of them are still stickys (and useful ones) just sitting there

[Mrs Frugal]

Bronze and Choccy - some good ideas there. I like the idea of chicken FAQs instead of the stickies. Hmmm, I do like that.

[Mrs Frugal]

OK an update.

 

The announcements section has been renamed "Get Togethers" and any information on meetings, either formally arranged ones like the Official Omlet Do or just ones where someone mentions they're going to a show and is anyone else going along can go in there. It's also the place for pre and post-get together chats and photographs from the days.

 

The special events section has been renamed "Celebrations" and anything celebratory can go in there - birthdays, parties, Christmas wishes, birth announcements, "Look at my new puppy" etc. Anything celebratory you want to share with everyone. Hope this will be a nice happy, fun filled section.

 

The Chicken FAQ is something the mods team will be working on to improve. At the moment, it's just filled with stickies from the Chicken section but we're aiming to make these stickies informative posts which will hopefully answer the most commonly asked questions. Give us time and we'll make this a worthwhile and useful section.

 

Any other suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated as the forum is constantly evolving and all I need is input from you about what you'd like to see on it.

[Helly Welly]

Well done Super Kate

 

This all sounds very clear, although i had a heart attack when i logged on, wondering what i ahd done to lose all the stickies

 

Your hard work should make life easier for everybody

[Mrs Frugal]

Sorry if I shocked you .

[Helly Welly]

At least it woke me up!

[buffie]

Kate it really is great, easier to keep up so thanks and well done

 

BBxxx

[Lesley]

It's all looking really good Kate - well done

[Popcorn]

Brill Kate! Looks fab and is much easier to navigate around now. Thank you xx

[bronze]

well I think its fab

(may be biased though)

It def. makes it easier to use yet the stickies all still easiily got to

[Egluntyne]

Smashing....very easy to find your away round. Thanks for all your hard work...and thanks to James too.

[Mrs Frugal]

My pleasure. Glad you think it's more user friendly. If you can think of any other improvements, please do shout .

[theherd123]

Smashing....very easy to find your away round. Thanks for all your hard work...and thanks to James too.

 

Ditto!

 

Kate you do such a good job - all your work is much appreciated!

[bronze]

another idea

As now more and more people are hatching (you know what I mean though mental image is odd)

maybe a chicks subsection?

[Paola]

another idea

As now more and more people are hatching (you know what I mean though mental image is odd)

maybe a chicks subsection?

 

Ooooo yes that sounds great Great idea Bronze

[Helly Welly]

I know this isn't a new section, but you know the link at the bottom of the page that says "Omlet UK Forum Index" that takes you back to the index? Would it be possible to have this link at the top of the page too as i don't always go to the bottom of the page and you can't press the back button after you've posted, well you can but you have to click it 3 times to get back to the index.

 

Hope you understand my strange ramblings!

[Mrs Frugal]

I can't do that, I'm afraid, HW as James has access to that part of the forum and I think he's probably too busy at the moment to ask but maybe once things calm down at Omlet HQ he might be able to sort that out and also reset the max number online record and correct the glitch!

[Mrs Frugal]

With regard to the Hatching/chicks section idea, we don't think it would work on this forum as we only have a few members who actually have experience of hatching and it would be far better to ask questions on a poultry forum with more experienced members such as Practical Poultry. Having a dedicated hatching section with lots of posts about how wonderful it is to have little chicks may inspire people to go and incubate some eggs without any thought as to where these chicks will live once they are fully grown or if they turn out to be males. The moderators and I all agree that any posts regarding incubation or hatching under a broody would be better in the Chickens section instead. There is also Lesley and Claret's excellent sticky about hatching in there which points anyone thinking about chicks to ask questions on Practical Poultry or any of the other poultry sites where they can get expert advice.

 

I hope this makes sense to you all.

[Helly Welly]

That seems very reasonable Kate, the last thing we want is loads of inexperienced people hatching chicks without fully thinking it through.