Over the past month or two, I’ve become a little sick of the Nuke website. There are a few reasons for this. The main reason, though, is that the site loads too slowly on the poor P133, and I wanted a fast-loading site.

Also, Chris has unleashed his blog upon the world. He’s using a funky app called “WordPress” which looks really good. I’d been considering installing “Movable Type” which is the bog-standard blogging tool but it would require a re-compilation of PHP and to be honest, twice was enough for me.

WordPress probably wouldn’t require any re-compilation but after a little thought, I just decided I’d make my own! So, here it is! The site is purely dedicated as a blog and appears to run much, much faster than the old Nuke site! I’ve also been able to choose my own design, since you can spot a Nuke website a mile away.

I really like the design of this new site, all of the design was hand-coded by me in Dreamweaver and does exactly what I what it to, not what someone else thinks I want it to do.

Couple of things, the gallery is gone but I hope to resurrect it in the near future (I always have trouble making my own galleries, not because it’s hard, but because I’m always conflicted on how to design it). Secondly, scrolling and viewing may seem to chug in Internet Explorer. That’s not a fault of the site, but the way IE deals with transparencies. If it’s too slow for you, try Mozilla Firefox, it’s much better anyway. Lastly, you can change the style sheets easily in Firefox, allowing for the red to be green or blue. I’m looking for an easy, cross-browser way to make this changeable on the fly, as well as remembering it (I’ll probably use cookies since I already know enough about them to do what I need).

That’s all for now, hope you like the new design!

This is the very first post on the bludgerdotorg PHP-Nuke site. The point of this site is not yet clear, as I’m just testing it (PHP-Nuke) out to see what it’s like.

It could work nicely as a “multi-blog” where a bunch of users post their blogs; they would end up inverwoven but hey, that’s alright.

I still need to figure out what “modules”, “blocks” and anything-else I can add to the site. There’s quite a lot that’s not currently used (there are sixteen unused modules, two hidden and six which are actually visible).

The “journals” module is, I suppose, a more logical place to put the blog; it is also possible to make it the front-page piece so it could work rather well.

Just have to see whether it’s possible to tighten the “register an account” process to prevent it from possible (however unlikely) abuse. PHP-Nuke also has a phpBB forum built-in (accessible here) which could be quite useful as a ‘chat’ type facility.

I don’t even think anyone’s reading this so it’s probably a waste of time posting. Least I’ll get to see what a long(ish) article looks like.

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