Just set up Google Apps to work on my bodyhacking domain. mail.bodyhacking.com will now lead to a custom gmail interface. Not sure what to do with it yet, other than it just being used for me to experiment with changing DNS records and playing with subdomains. I may use it as an incentive to “premium” users, if I set up premium accounts.
Seems like a good way of introducing people to a familiar interface, along with getting them a different email address.
I’ve been working on a new website for a few weeks now. Initially, I was looking at WordPress Mu, but it just wasn’t capable of doing what I wanted it to without some major code changes, and I suck at the code part.
So, I moved it all to Drupal.
First thing first, I’ve got no prior experience at all with the software, the major hurdle was finding out what does what, as the terms used are quite different to those used in other software that I am familiar with. I then had to find out what modules I needed, again, not too obvious at first, but luckily the people over on the Drupal site were very helpful.
I just spent the last few days adding around a thousand terms to the taxonomy, only to find out that it was wasted, and I should have been adding them to custom CCK fields, which was a small irritant. Ah well, that means I have to change all the Views I’d already set up, and find a way to change the custom blocks to take advantage of the new CCK fields, rather than taxonomy.
Hopefully I’ll have the site working in some sort of form within the next few weeks. I don’t plan on theming it yet, just having it working would do for now.
I’ve been working on a new site, it’s not complete yet (the new version of vBulletin is a bit of a pig when it comes to styling). But it’s getting there. Still lots to do.
Here’s what it looks like at the moment.
Still a great deal to do as you can see, I’m looking into finding a way to automatically get various RSS feeds posting articles to the homepage, although I’ll have to be careful with how that’s used, I don’t want to steal other sites content.
Just worked on a few new buttons and a header for my site. Spent ages cutting ouch each individual letter, as I don’t have the font file.
It looks a hell of a lot better now.
Trying to make a new skin for my forum that includes some element of the new CSS3 RGBA tag. It’s proving a little bothersome right now, as some of the elements are just showing up as black for some reason.
I’ll give it a go while combining it with some PNG transparent images for the troublesome areas, see how that works out.
Also need to get started on the Wiki stylesheet, reading up on it now, it looks like it should be relatively easy, but I’m probably just being wildly optimistic.
Also also, having a look at JQuery, trying to teach myself some things to make my site a little more interesting and interactive.
I thought it might be worth listing all the changes I’ve made to my site from the standard forum and wiki installs.
Forums:
Wiki:
There are, of course, more changes to come.
As you might have noticed I’ve been reworking the main site, not everything’s working yet, but it’s getting there.
Still in France, getting on with things, albeit quite slowly, as per usual.
Website layout is, I think, finally finished, can’t upload it as my laptop can’t connect to the Livebox so it’ll have to wait untill early January but it’s looking great. Working on other things too, the SS2 deck is getting on, some of the objects are built, just need to lay everything out and start working on getting the lighting right, and then start texturing if I’ve got the time.
Working on getting the layout to this blog and the forum to match the site, but that won’t be for a while yet.
Not much else to report elsewise, life is good, getting on with stuff, missing Mimi a lot and my uncle is arriving tommorow.
Need to find some new music.
Oh, and Storm of Zehir is shitloads of fun.
In France for christmas at my grandparents house, trying to get my head around this fucking French keyboard which has all the keys in the wrong fucking place. So annoying.
Anyway, not much to report, getting on with everything, slowly. Some images from my System Shock 2 deck will emerge in the next couple of weeks, and I’m going to give some serious thought about giving everything a proper design look, which means restructuring the few things I’ve already done on the website along with getting the forums and blog to match the main site.