It's just like the layout I was requesting in this post
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/9679/new-nodebb-theme-layout

Hopefully one day there will be more theme choices

Appreciate all those providing input on this type of layout. It's too bad the site using the grid layout is not using nodebb or else we could probably get the designer to provide some help.

@jarey said in New NodeBB Theme Layout:

@charles have you tried nodebb-theme-lavender? It just uses a grid layout as you showed.

Lavender is based on categories which has static front page correct? Looking for topics with thumbnail like the site I linked to.

@meetdilip said in New NodeBB Theme Layout:

Is that a Discourse forum ?

I'm not sure. Is there a way to find out for sure?

Best way to create a new NodeBB theme grid layout? Can someone list items need to create nodebb layout like this?

Can it be accomplished using css? Will NodeBB files need to be modified? Which ones? Hopefully it is easy to make layout without need to use plugin.

Suggestions?

@Nicca I recommended this guide to several newbie and they didn't have problems so that's another one to try.

@teh_g said in Performance Improvement:

@charles said in Performance Improvement:

I agree with @exodo that score of 57/79 and 53/79 (nodebb) doesn't look very good. For some that are judging based on these scores, they would skip and use another app.

I think judging based on those benchmarks alone isn't a great way to determine which software to use.

Yes I agree. When I ask several people to give NodeBB a try as their main app, they first go and check the grades

They sent me this (first one is NodeBB) and said, "why would you use that?"

If I can't even get them to try it, think about others that are also check the grades? This is the same with wp themes that have poor scores. People just skip over them and not use them on sites because they want good grades.

It's hard to get people to look past certain things even after they decide on another app.

Just sharing

Anyone know of a poll that will
-show results only after set date/time
-show results only after set number of votes

I agree with @exodo that score of 57/79 and 53/79 (nodebb) doesn't look very good. For some that are judging based on these scores, they would skip and use another app.

@julian Sorry not sure what some of those things mean since I'm just copying the details and grades from gtmet testing

Serve scaled images (F)
Defer parsing of JavaScript (D)
Leverage browser caching (C)
Optimize images (C)

Add Expires headers (F)
Make fewer HTTP requests (F)
Use cookie-free domains (F)
Reduce DNS lookups (C)
Minify JavaScript and CSS (B)
Avoid URL redirects (B)