Dan Feidt's log on Minnesota, Information Operations, spinstorms and latent contradictions.
The new system, temporarily located here, is called Drupal and in it, basically all the content is called 'nodes'. There can be regular blog post nodes, image nodes, video nodes. They can be associated to other nodes, and have comments. There are a lot of RSS headline feed features around too, including an audio node + RSS feed = Podcast feature.
On the plus side, there is going to be podcasting support set up, image gallery handling, polls and more static content that is tied to dynamic content.
Overall the software seems to work pretty well. The addon modules might not work as expected, but I will basically turn stuff off and on until it works.
The site is going to replace the front page within this week. That's the damn goal!!!
There is also a page called the 'HongWire' which will have a lot of feeds from various sites. It needs to be cleaned up, but it works with new headlines every 30 minutes, and that'll give us something interesting every 30 minutes without any more work from me!!
'Nyarlahotep Chooses' is a block reserved for a random selection of David's artwork, when that gets put together after his new computer finally shows up.
There is going to be a box on the front page connected to the del.icio.us service that will allow folks to send links over from their browsers.
Basically most anything contributed by a registered user will be posted. I've got some individual blogs set up and they will always be marked at least on the sidebar and probably on the main page too.
These are the tricky things. So far the only major bug is that the auto-banner rotating feature is not compatible with caching. So it runs hella slow. So the fancy logo that changes every time will have to wait.
The "HongWire" news aggregator is probably going to have to be tweaked for it to work fast enough.
The other random image box is going to be random images from the library. Might not keep that.
Any creative contributions are appreciated and individual contributors keep their own copyright for their own work and if they ever want it taken down that's fine.
I'm probably going to have to put in ads to try to pay for the web hosting. If it breaks even that will be a shock.
Posted by HongPong at September 10, 2006 05:47 PM