Reply With Quotedo whatever you have to! its all good
If all goes as planned tonight, Thursday morning should see the site in it's new format on a new host. I've decided to move the site from my house to a data center. This should ensure that there are never any connectivity or speed problems. Once I decided to make the move, it seemed like a reasonable time to migrate away from the old site design to the new one. There is, however, a catch...
The new site design isn't finished. The customization stuff still needs to be completed, some new themes need to be added, new matching forum skins need to be created, and I've got a bunch of 'plugins' to finish as well.
So...for now the new site is going to be pretty limited. You'll find that some things don't work quite as expected. Don't worry about that, though, it's a work in progress and it'll be getting finished as we go along.
So, now that you know what's going on, you should probably find something to hang on to, this could get a little rough!
do whatever you have to! its all good
Use the right tool for the right job!
Well, I'm starting to see people in this (the new) version of the board, so I guess the DNS settings are propagating.
Is anyone having any trouble?
"So utterly at variance is destiny with all the little plans of men." - H.G. Wells
Hi,
great work Dyyryath! Looking really good.
Just two things I noticed (Well, I know size doesn't matter, but ...):
The edit box I'm just using to type this message is rather small. There was a bigger version of it before, I remember.
Second would be the Iframe on the homepage, that seems to be drawn with absolute size (400 pixel). Would it be possible to give it a relative height? It's looking rather small on my sceen (1400x1050) while there is plenty of free space below the "Design by Dyyryath, 2003" line (btw, make that a 2004)
Wirthi
ooooohhhh, shiny!!!
Looks great
edit: one thing- is the STATS button on the main page supposed to go anywhere yet? It doesn't seem to...
Last edited by rshepard; 02-12-2004 at 07:43 AM.
It's freakin' cool Dyyryath!
One little "bug" I found: the textarea input field in the forum (when you create a reply) has become small again. At least it is in Firefox...
looks really great, but there are some issues
Where is the login-button on the frontpage if my username isn't cookied? I can see a username-field, a password-field, but there is no button "login"... I can press enter, but there is no reaction.... need to enter the ./forum/ to login...
With Internet Explorer 6 it's looking good, but there are some issues with Mozilla 1.5 and 1.6: The "Forum Threads"-links on the frontpage have a different font than in IE6, maybe a CSS-issue...
And the messagebox where I write this text at the moment is very small! Please enlarge(it's in the "Modern"-theme, in the "Legacy"-theme it's big enough)
cygnussphere is missing one the "Contacts"-list on the frontpage.
[EDIT]In the "Projects"-section on the frontpage... you should open a new window if someone clicks on the project-linkgs[/EDIT]
But the rest looks cool! Great work Dyy!
Dyyryath
Last edited by the-mk; 02-12-2004 at 08:57 AM.
the-mk
Most of these are things on the 'to-do' list. I warned you that it wasn't done yet.
I'll be working on that list over the next couple of days, but keep the suggestions coming in case you find something I didn't notice myself.
the-mk: I'm not sure what you mean about the links under Mozilla. In fact, I've only briefly checked the site under IE. Every stitch of development was actually done under Galeon (Mozilla renderer).
Can you post a screenshot of the problem?
Also, the login box on the homepage won't work yet. I haven't finished writing the code to connect it to the vbulletin backend.
"So utterly at variance is destiny with all the little plans of men." - H.G. Wells
wirthi: The iframe will be customizable soon. You'll be able to set it's length & width. You'll also be able to set the left hand column's width. It's one of the page options that I haven't finished coding yet.
"So utterly at variance is destiny with all the little plans of men." - H.G. Wells
rshepard: Yup, the 'Stats' button is going to go somewhere, but the page for it isn't finished yet. Soon, though...
"So utterly at variance is destiny with all the little plans of men." - H.G. Wells
Alright, the edit boxes should be big again.
One down, 52,384 more to go.
"So utterly at variance is destiny with all the little plans of men." - H.G. Wells
much better to write in a larger edit-box
Here are the screenshots from the Internet Explorer 6 and Mozilla 1.5 (both on W2k SP4):
http://the-mk.dbestern.net/pics/internetexplorer.png
http://the-mk.dbestern.net/pics/mozilla.png
Could you give us some details about the new host of www.free-dc.org?
the-mk
I can't replicate the font problem, but I may have fixed it. Check it for me, will you?
The new hosting is through these guys:
http://www.imhosted.com
We're on the 'Standard' package which, with a static IP costs about $16/mo. So far, I'm really pleased with it. The speed is good and they have all of the tools I needed to make the site work (MySQL, PHP, Perl, etc). On top of that (and most importantly to me), I've got SSH shell access to the server which makes my life MUCH easier than it would have been otherwise. Of course, if you don't know enough to use a shell account, their control panel is absolutely fantastic as well.
All in all, I think it's going to be a good fit for us. After we've been on it for a bit, I'll decide what to do about my Arachnid stats stuff. I'm thinking about a major overhaul (and possible move) for them, too.
"So utterly at variance is destiny with all the little plans of men." - H.G. Wells
Dyyryath,
want to run them off my dedicated server ?
It's in a secure datacentre. A P4 2.4 (HT) running RH9 (yuk), but there is plenty of space, I get 1000GB transfer per month and have root access.
Let me know and I'll give you a shell account.
Bok
That's an interesting idea...and it might go along with something else I've been considering. I'll email you about it tonight.
"So utterly at variance is destiny with all the little plans of men." - H.G. Wells
I have a dedicated server, same setup as Boks
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I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape drive somewhere.
Well, until I have time to sit down and put it all in an email tonight, let me just put this out there for consideration:
Are you guys interested in 'collaborating' on one 'unified' stats system? A single system built around a project-agnostic database backend with a MySQL/SOAP/XML/whatever interface for any rendering front end (remote or local) that we'd like to write might be neat way of doing things. That's sort of how my current system works, but I've learned enough playing with it to realize that it needs some modifications that probably suggest a complete re-write. Having two high speed hosting locations would also be cool. It'd be easy to round-robin DNS them to split the load and offer some redundancy.
While I haven't worked out the details yet, if our other stats guys are interested, I suspect we could do something exceptionally 'cool' and really extensible...
"So utterly at variance is destiny with all the little plans of men." - H.G. Wells
Sounds good to me. I'm playing with a rewrite of my db engine right now actually. Real work can get too boring :P
Magnav0x,
it's hosted at nocster.net (subsidiary of burst.net) and has fiber connections to verizon, ppl, ctsi among others.
They are good value, though I've had some packet loss at times.
Bok
I'd be interested in collaborating with bok and yourself on working out some sort of scalable hosting solution between the two servers. I also feel that an arachnid type system for all our statistic databases would be very reasonable. I'd like to help on that front as well, though my lack of experiene with SOAP/XML may damper that effort.
They had some big problems not long ago, but that wasn't realy their fault. Seems a vital switch somewhere went down causing everything in the area to be out. I feel sorry for them though, because a lot of people flead nocster after that even though they are a very reliable datacenter.They are good value, though I've had some packet loss at times.
My datacenter runs Dual Gigabit Ethernet (1000Mbps) fiber-optic connections to AboveNet and Global Crossing.
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I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape drive somewhere.
Bug report: When you create a post the smileys in the box on the left doesn't work
They do work for me ... ?Originally posted by pointwood
Bug report: When you create a post the smileys in the box on the left doesn't work
Damn that was a fast response time
I made a forced refresh in my browser (Firefox, what else
@wirthi and pointwood: I think every bug- or suggestion-message should name their browser and operating system to make bug-finding easier. But the problems should have cleared now
@Dyyryath: you've got PM about our IE6 vs. Mozilla problem. I think I've got the solution...
the-mk
I know, but I didn't think the issue was browser related and hence wasn't neccesary, but I should probably have added that info anyway
Unless otherwise stated, I'm always using the latest version of Mozilla Firefox - I'm close to getting crazy just by using IE6 sometimes to check whether something works there
I'm using IE6, and it's working just perfect
Errr, the site won't open when I use Netscape 3 Gold for MacOS 7.5.3.
Someone needs to get me a new mac(I don't really, but I think I should have one, just to kick ass at RC5)
magicfan241
Dyy, looking good there!
I can't wait to look at the stats for this new site.
This new site looks just great!!
rm -Rf /
except notice the new logo and colors 