i would be tempted to set up a page with some controls, and let the user decide what kind of list…Read more

its only took about three lines in two different files to get it going, so if i upgrade i can toss it back in pretty easily. and its highly…Read more

if i understand correctly where you are going with this, their fsm profile will list their participation stats and a link to their fark profile, where…Read more

also i’d like to start populating the old contest info. i have all the old photos, tagged by name and date, from the backup as well. if someone wants to get me started in the right direction that would be lovely. this would also require a “previous contests” link on the front page pointing to the list of previous contests.

i wouldn’t recommend…Read more

if this fixes it, than i can do this for all the other board…Read more

ok, so maybe i’m an utter doofus, but once i’m on the ‘welcome’ page, i can’t see any way to get back to the list of contests, etc. those boxes are missing from the right side entirely.

😳

please don’t mock me if it’s something really easy, i’ve been ill.

not your bad at all – it was a config thing i didn’t get around to figuring out last…Read more

*hiding the fact i am in the same boat behind decisiveness*

I propose that the FSM exposes the list of Active Farktographers. This list would include a link back to the FSM porfolio page, and from that page would link back to the Fark bio (maybe both links could be exposed, but that may be (a) confusing from the UI and (b) odd to do with Aton/RSS). The Active Farktographers change with each contest: some…

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Do it, and put it up on your dev environment so we can take a peek.

er, my dev environment? is there some sort of integration tool in place that i’m not aware of? i was just gonna set up a farktography theme in its own directory, leaving the default theme untouched, and start doing my thing. the block/menu changes i’m talking about are database…Read more

?A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.?
?Antoine De Saint-Exupery

CLUTTER IS BAD, even if each of the…Read more

Instead, I’d rather publish the required data (whatever that is) via some API. Farktography.net could slurp up the data and do whatever is necessary. I’m considering using RSS / Atom as the publishing mechanism since those would have a high likelihood of being consumable by any given client. If those formats don’t present a rich enough…

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Makes sense, and I look forward to get an eyeful of the functions it offers under the hood. Just one question — where’d the login box go?

oh, right, i removed it. you can find it here:
http://www.briantucker.net/farktography2/admin

Also, I’ve set up an admin user at farktography.mudx.net
un: brian
pw: 10000rpm

awesome, i’ll check it out.…Read more

That’s why I’m asking the mods to bless this direction, and then let scoot side to let the technical people get the work done. Once we’ve got a framework in place that we can extend and move forward with the automation plans easily, then we can re-engage the community for the additional features, look/feel, etc, that are requested. Unless I’m…

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If you are earnest in confessing this as a rash act, and earnest in your desire to act as part of a unified team, I would encourage you to show your good faith along those lines to the community as a whole before we can begin a unified approach. It would not be appropriate to start off on our current footing, lest it appear you’re taking a ‘my…

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On Brian’s site, I like the placement given to the FSM. But I don’t like the “embeddedness” of the resulting page. I feel it is visually jarring and would prefer “target=’_blank'”. I also request that it link to the FSM’s homepage, rather than to an internal page – I’m going to rename that “Greatest Farktographer’s Evar” page any day…

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a couple important principles i would love to see implemented, as a designer, is to fully integrate and automate everything. what does that mean? it means the forums and the website…Read more

Brian: one piece of feedback in terms of your forums integration. I don’t like how the forums are extremely crunched and very narrow. It would be nicer to have it closer to normal size so there wouldn’t be be as much scrolling involved. I know it’s just a column width thing that can be modified, and I may be the only one who thinks this.

yeah,…Read more

i’ll reply to the rest of this whe i get home tonight, but explain to me brian why no one heard from you about the website for a week and a half? why you never heeded to specs? why the site is still not 100% operational?

gladly:

1) because it made more sense to have the discussions on the forum where everyone could participate rather than…Read more

– you can submit new contest ideas using the Submit Event button on the calendar (idea: if you guys want to throw down gauntlets, you could set it up using the same button, then when an admin approves it, it would show up in the calendar like any other event)

The problem, if I’m not mistaken, is that it wouldn’t be as public as that of the…

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First and foremost, hi, I’m the someone else. I’ve also been doing CMS based web sites for a number of years, and been writing code of various flavors for 25 years, including most recently PHP and C#.

hey man *hearty handshake*
its too bad we had to meet under these circumstances, but hell, they’ll blow over soon enough.

meanwhile, veruca…

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i created an account for whoever wants to poke around:
http://www.briantucker.net/farktography/index.php/gallery_admin
username: editor
password: ezFark9

in…Read more

i…Read more

i’ve built hundreds of websites, and worked with a variety of content management systems, esp in php/mysql. i could set something up for you guys pretty quickly. i love design and photography, and it looks…Read more