[clue-talk] Updating the ol Website

[erik at ezolan.com]

> So you have RSS feeds by topic already?  And a freetagging system?

I had an email list that worked like an RSS feed. Then I changed hosting
and found it nigh-impossible to get my user list and transfer to the new
host.

I don't like freetagging. I mean, it works great for flickr, they have a
million billion pictures. Having the users go through and put them into
categories is a great idea. Especially since the text medium and the
visual medium require human intervention for categorizing something like
that. But we have a much smaller library here, (1200ish works), and it's
just text. That search library mentioned earlier would probably be the
best add-on. But until then, I have a list of tags the user can choose
from when uploading their story.

> You can argue these features aren't useful, but then you'd be arguing
> against the millions who are using flickr and delicious and...

...companies that can afford to hire fulltime people to implement features
and insure that it stays up and running? ;-)

This is the main reason I'm shy about using something like Drupal. I was
looking at the "Top 10 ways a Developer can send a Drupal project to Hell"
list, and if I wanted to use it well I need to:
Learn the API and go over all the functions
Learn how to make modules
Learn the hook system
Learn the template.php
Learn the forms.api

Ye cats man.

It's a hobby site. Currently I'm fortunate enough to pull in a little
money on the side from it. But when I get home from work, I have 1 hour of
free time before going to bed (12 hour shifts). For this site update, I'm
using vacation time so I can sit down for a few days and focus on learning
CSS and implementing it.

> If you shared the URL of the site you probably wouldn't spend so much
> time explaining to us that we're recommending the wrong socket for
> your bolt.

Well, I am trying to update the design of the site. Although you guys have
been great at suggesting ways to improve the functionality of the place,
that's not really what I was asking for. :-(  And the reason I haven't
given out the URL is that it's a porn site, something I'm not comfortable
in giving.

Sigh. A co-worker just loaned me a CSS book he's been going though. When I
asked him if it was any good, he just laughed.