Rocknerd is in da howse.

[reddragdiva]

Slash is such a pig of a thing. It's industrial strength and stable. It runs Slashdot.

But altering anything ... 98% of anything you need to do can be done through the web interface - but finishing the last two percent properly requires you to do anything from uploading a file to precisely the right place to hand-editing the Perl. (c.f. Linux Airlines and the Seat-HOWTO.) A right bugger to customise. And you can't not customise it, 'cos it's so bloody ugly out the box. Thank goodness blarglefiend is an accomplished sysadmin and machete-wielding Perl hacker. Not to mention his excellent hosting contacts.

(DOWN with table-based layout! UP with CSS! Gecko browsers are now more popular than Netscape 4, damn it! Standards!)

The content is progressing wonderfully. Slash is entirely composed of bells and whistles. People are using the journal feature. People are leaving comments. Having no outlet for a couple of weeks left both Ben and I full of interesting things to write about ...

Today I go on a Grand Day Out. And do what I should have done earlier this week, which is to buy a prepaid SIM and shove it in the spare phone we have here. If I find the old one, Liz can have this SIM, and if I don't find the old one, I can.

Comments

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's pretty much all controlled by the templates. You want to do a proper nice CSS interface, I'll set you up a devel. instance and you can go for it.

Heck, right now Rocknerd basically looks like Slashcode (http://slashcode.com/) with different colours and graphics. So there's probably some actual point to serious template-modification anyway.

[reddragdiva]

"You want to do a proper nice CSS interface, I'll set you up a devel. instance and you can go for it."

Sounds a bit like work, really. I think I'll wait until we find a volunteer with (a) the skills and (b) an actually reliable pitch of fannish obsession.

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

Argh! The RDF links are going to rocknerd.tinho.net. Which works, but is not exactly nice and tidy. Am now poking around in the guts of the database looking for every last reference to that hostname for extermination porpoises...

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I used to work on Slash professionally. I got about halfway through writing an XHTML/CSS2 template set (and contributed a few minor patches to the same end) before I fell into major depression last year and defaulted on the contract which was funding the work  :(

I've also written my own lightweight Slash clone (YAWNS (http://freshmeat.net/projects/yawns/)), but it's not got half the features of Slash. It is 100% XHTML/CSS2 compliant though.