Malaysia Real Estate

[auzaniridzwan]

while I was busy snapping pictures I think she wandered to the back of the house where there weren't any fences up and saw the construction of the maids bathroom. You could always climb up to the second floor of the SD villa showhouse and take a peep there. or just wait when its finished by next month ya?
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[auzaniridzwan]

Hi Valhalla,

I've played around with a few forum packages, and like phpBB3 the most. It feels and functions most similar to this forum, therefore people wont need to re-learn anything. The feature set is impressive and will cater for almost any level of moderation required, and customizations. The documentation is also quite comprehensive, important for maintenance and administration. It also just looks very professinal. I tried out Vanilla, but was put off by its sheer "lightweightness". Is there anything negative about phpBB apart from its "bloatedness"?
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[auzaniridzwan]

Hi All,

Just got billed for the 3rd progress payment yesterday. (June 11 2008).
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[Vallhalla]

Hi Auzani, what i liked about Vanilla is the lightweightness... and the simplicity of it... I believe that when we want to create a website, we have to look at the purpose of it and what we expect to use it for, and not just go straight using CMS with the most impressive feature list.

So for our community website, what are the things that all of us think we are going to use it for? Example, in the forum, would we want to attach pictures without having to first uploading it in flickr or anywhere else.. How easy it is to moderate the forum.. I'm not saying phpbb3 is not good, etc... i just think it's secondary.. we should decide a set of user required features the website need to have first.. then think about what tools to use..

[pakeminem]

[auzaniridzwan]

Understood, I'm just concerned if Vanilla is sufficient to cater for future growth. But based on its extension architecture, probably that argument is mute.

I was just pissed a bit with Vanilla coz i followed all the install instructions, and got it up and running, but when i logged on, its was like blank! no links to add new discussion, settings page, etc... phpBB installed without a hitch. I'll try it again later. maybe i missed something? or could you help me out?

as for features, lets decide to lock down a list of features we want for phase 1.

i'll start here:

1.create new thread.
2.post message.
4.create photo galleries.
3.upload photos to a photo gallery.
4.post/link photos in messages
5.create polls
6.edit posts
7.delete posts
8.approve posts
9.customize the design.

i think in terms of moderation its pretty simple. SPK just wants the ability to remove posts that they think is inappropriate. so a simple admin rights to an spk rep.

what do you guys think?
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[Vallhalla]

Do you want every user to be able to customize the design and create photo galleries auzani?

[auzaniridzwan]

No la, based on user privileges. Probably should clarify features based on roles.

Guests
1.View forums only.
2.View photo albums.
2.Register as members to join forum.

Members
1.Create thread
2.Post messages
3.Edit posts
4.Create photo album
5.Upload photos to album
6.Link to photos in album in thread posts
7.Subscribe to thread
8.Unsubscribe to thread
9.Unregister from forum
10.Search posts
11.Edit user profile.
12.View members profile.

Community Administrators
0.All features of member
1.Change/update design of forum.
2.Approve new members.
3.Lock member account.
4.Change user role.
5.Lock threads.
5.Delete threads.
6.Delete posts.
7.Lock photo albums.
8.Delete photo albums.
9.Delete photos.

SPK Admin
0.All features of member
1.Delete posts.
2.Delete photos.

Please add/suggest/comment on the list...
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[pakeminem]

[auzaniridzwan]

Probably there needs to be some forum rules listed down as well, acceptable by both parties.

Basic rules such as:

-no porn
-no sales pitches (must be limited to sales thread only).
-SPK marketing posts confined to dedicated SPK thread.

Wanna add any other rules? Thats why its important to flesh out these issues to discuss..
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[viper770]

Yup, I agree. Basically, SPK will have their own section to do their marketing/sales pitches, etc. They should not in any way interact within our threads, except by creating their own 'Q&A' thread or some sorts.

Forum, threads must be mainly only moderated by us and SPK rep can have the right to delete posts that contains, possibly:
1)porn, foul words, serious wild allegations, etc
2)pictures that are deemed inappropriate/offensive to SPK or the community as a whole

Guys, this is basically our very first step towards realizing a virtual community, I mean, really as a 'community'. This is a simulation of exactly how it will be like when we communicate real life (we can't stop ppl from saying/doing bad stuffs, can we). I would encourage maturity in conversations which I have observed so far has been so healthy. With this website, we will have to expect more and more visitors, buyers like us coming in and start interacting, so I guess, the basic rules like we all have highlighted must be applied and practiced.

As for the SPK rep moderating, we will just have to set the same expectation to them that we do not want our website to be cluttered with sales messages. They have enough of that in their own website, newspaper print ads, banners etc.

[Joe_Zee]

I agree with Viper and Auzani's recomendation. Let this be our voice and point of interaction on matters relating to our community but since SPK is sponsoring the site then personally I believe we should let them make some use of it as well. Constructive, mature and healthy discussion should be highly appaluded as a way to further strengthen our community. Salam.....

[Vallhalla]

Anyway, here's a sample of my design... just ignore all the unrelated info.. i used the info and names as samples only

[auzaniridzwan]

hi Valhalla,

I like the design and layout. The navigation links are excellent. Clean and visible. Just some reservations about the main banner, looks a bit "retro"! Kewl in a retro way! I was thinking along the lines of "nature" a bit like the sign at the entrance to spk? But that's just my taste...Howabout we do a little "design the website logo/header" competition? Prize is a cuppa coffee bean by majority vote...Forumners just post your entries on this forum...haha! Excellent work bro! Looking forward to meeting you tomorrow.
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[auzaniridzwan]

Visit to Cahay SPK (Saturday June 14 2008)

Construction Progress at Precinct 2A

(Rebars)


(Block B)


(Block B-End Unit Closeup, Internal walls use clay bricks for cooling effect, external walls are cement bricks, fair compromise i say).


(right:Block C, in the background:Block K)


(Blocks E,F, & G)




(Close up of rear view of an end lot unit at Block A)


(50 feet wide road)


(Back lanes behind houses)


(View of the whole Precinct 2A from bungalow lots)


Precinct 2B







(From left to right):Viper,Pakeminem,Joe_Zee,Auzani

A big thank you to Miss Nurul for bravely driving us to the site and not falling of any cliffs! Cheers all!
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[pakeminem]

aiya why la lupa tarik perut masuk dlm. anyway it was a good meeting. able to meet other forumers and the reps of SPK (ms SPS, ms Fung and including Mr Steven himself- SPK really paying attention to us, syok la) are very helpful n sincere to make this project (website) a reality. kudos to them. cant wait to see the design using vanilla or cappucino or latte or donno la what u kol them, thats fine with me.

[viper770]

nice pics bro!

thanks to the spk team too, for that nice trip to the construction site..

good first meeting that we had. hopefully we will be able to follow thru with some of the planned activities for this community....

[frangipanee]

viper770 (aka tajul asni?), x-ppp a-level batch 15 jugakkan???

[viper770]

yes bro, nanti berjiran pulak kite....hehehe....

[TS]

Thanks for the picture posted. It really great to have all this updates but yet to see block J...

Besides my unit @ J28 any one near by???

[auzaniridzwan]

Hi TS!

Welcome to the forum! Your on the same row as summersnow. You can check out the neighbors map on Page 2.

.://..realestate.net.my/forum/viewtopic.php?p=112906&highlight=#112906
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[jriz]

hi everyone, nice to see u all have time together visiting the site, i wish i could have joined u all, anyway nice pic auzani, i haven't visited the 2b showhouse yet, was wondering how's they gonna renovate it..the previous showhouse was very nice..

[summersnow]

[pakeminem]

brought my sister to the show unit today n i won RM50 worth of petrol voucher hehehehe.