Chaos Reigns MOO Redesign

I’m not particularly enamoured of the original Chaos Reigns MOO site design, so I’ve decided to redo it. (Not that the game is actually up and running at the moment, but entirely because you’ve just got to have good-looking stuff in your portfolio.)

 I’ve come up with something that’s a lot cleaner, and would lend itself much more easily to incorporating the types of features that the game would require. With ‘latest activity’ logs for the type of role-play happening in the game to Guild pages, where individual Guilds would have access to a blog of their own for posting different bits of guild-like information. As well, Staff pages would allow collaboration on MOO expansion projects and meetings. (Being able to pull up a meeting log at the click of your mouse would be very handy. As well, being able to get a copy of the game database as backup whenever desired.)

 In my opinion, there were a lot of shortcomings in the capability of the Chaos Reigns MOO website. So, with the redesign (which will take me a while to get together,) I plan to build something quite phenomenal.

Posted in Thoughts Etc., To Do List at 11:31 am on Feb 03, 2006 by Chris

Thoughts on a Hack

Well, it’s about 24 hours (give or take) into my WordPress 2 installation, and I have to say that I still love it way more than I did that older version. :) That said, I’ve already come up with something that I’d like to add to the software. (Those end-users are a picky lot aren’t they? You give them this great new software package to work with, and they still aren’t satisfied.) ;)

I’m thinking that it would be great if it were possible to allow for comments on a Page. Right now, Pages are completely separate from the rest of the blog, so there’s no possibility of users commenting on an article or policy or whatever that you may have posted. (I’m presently using a Page for an article I’ve written about getting PHP5 installed as a CGI handler. However, there’s no way for users to add comments to that article to expand on the knowledgeset that’s there.)

I admit that I haven’t got the foggiest clue how I’m going to make this happen yet; only that I would like to. Thus, this idea is very likely going to be a while in coming along. (Unless, of course, someone beats me to it and writes a plugin for this feature.)

We shall have to see how this pans out. I will have to do a little reading up on WordPress’s plugin options and what I’d have to do to make this happen. (Could be interesting.)

Posted in Thoughts Etc., To Do List at 9:30 pm on Feb 02, 2006 by Chris

WordPress 2 Upgrade

Well, WordPress 2 is here. I’ve read through their release, and it looks pretty good. It should solve a few glitches that they have in their software, speed a few things up, and add a bunch of cool extra things that will make WordPress even better than it already is.

So, I will very likely be upgrading to the new version of their software very soon. I look forward to it.

Posted in Post-It Notes, To Do List at 7:01 pm on Feb 01, 2006 by Chris

Cron Script Output Log

At the moment, the few cron jobs I have running to make sure that users are logged out properly and that a few other things are kept up-to-date, are all recording output and sending it to my shell account. It’s getting a little bit cumbersome, having to go in there every couple of days and make sure that all of the e-mail is deleted.

I will be re-writing these scripts to keep an error log for the output as needed. This is going to get put on the backburner though. It’s not terribly important, just annoying.

Posted in To Do List at 6:29 pm on by Chris

Portfolio Commentary

It occurrs to me that with the ability to comment on just about everything else in my website, my visitors might also wish to leave comments or questions about portfolio pieces. I will look into making this possibility a reality in the future.

Posted in To Do List at 3:56 pm on by Chris

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