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Plan for David "Fulcrum" Wyand
| Name: | David \"Fulcrum\" Wyand |  |
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| Date Posted: | Dec 17, 2003 | |
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Building a Better Gnome
Greetings!
I've recently been updating my Gnometech site to include a little more graphic pizzazz and add brand new forums!
Gnometech Forums
After looking at a number of solutions, I decided to go with the commercial vBulletin community software by Jelsoft. It's in use at a number of sites that I frequent that have far more traffic than I anticipate at Gnometech, so I feel confident that it should handle my needs. Once my web site provider installed mySQL 4, it was quite easy to setup vBulletin and customize it.
The main impetus for all this work was to have an official and centralized location for discussing the LightWave DTS Exporter. I'm hoping that the community will now be able to help itself out in those times when I'm not available. It's now all up and running, so you may head to Gnometech and have a gander.
Implementing Site News
Another behind-the-scenes change I've made is to make use of vBulletin to write my news items for the Gnometech front page. Previously, I had just used a table created in Macromedia Dreamweaver to manually add my news items. My initial design was to make use of my new mySQL database on the web site to store the news items and create a front end to write them. The final solution was to make use of everything that was already available through vBulletin.
To accomplish this, I created a private and hidden News message board. I could then post new threads here with each one containing the news item's title and body. I then wrote a PERL CGI program to run a query against the appropriate vBulletin tables to extract all of the threads from the News forum and automatically build a table to display on the Gnometech front page. So far, it seems to have worked out great. My next step will be to automatically build a news archive page.
If anyone is interested in my PERL code to accomplish this, just drop me a line and I'll pass it along.
LightWave DTS Exporter
The Mac users out there will be happy to hear that my Mac developer, CJ, is willing to compile the latest version of the LightWave DTS Exporter. You'll finally have access to the latest version. Once the Mac version is ready, I'll be releasing it and the Windows version for everyone to try out.
- LightWave Dave
I've recently been updating my Gnometech site to include a little more graphic pizzazz and add brand new forums!
Gnometech Forums
After looking at a number of solutions, I decided to go with the commercial vBulletin community software by Jelsoft. It's in use at a number of sites that I frequent that have far more traffic than I anticipate at Gnometech, so I feel confident that it should handle my needs. Once my web site provider installed mySQL 4, it was quite easy to setup vBulletin and customize it.
The main impetus for all this work was to have an official and centralized location for discussing the LightWave DTS Exporter. I'm hoping that the community will now be able to help itself out in those times when I'm not available. It's now all up and running, so you may head to Gnometech and have a gander.
Implementing Site News
Another behind-the-scenes change I've made is to make use of vBulletin to write my news items for the Gnometech front page. Previously, I had just used a table created in Macromedia Dreamweaver to manually add my news items. My initial design was to make use of my new mySQL database on the web site to store the news items and create a front end to write them. The final solution was to make use of everything that was already available through vBulletin.
To accomplish this, I created a private and hidden News message board. I could then post new threads here with each one containing the news item's title and body. I then wrote a PERL CGI program to run a query against the appropriate vBulletin tables to extract all of the threads from the News forum and automatically build a table to display on the Gnometech front page. So far, it seems to have worked out great. My next step will be to automatically build a news archive page.
If anyone is interested in my PERL code to accomplish this, just drop me a line and I'll pass it along.
LightWave DTS Exporter
The Mac users out there will be happy to hear that my Mac developer, CJ, is willing to compile the latest version of the LightWave DTS Exporter. You'll finally have access to the latest version. Once the Mac version is ready, I'll be releasing it and the Windows version for everyone to try out.
- LightWave Dave
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Submit your own resources!| David Grace (Dec 17, 2003 at 19:13 GMT) |
Though I admit, phpBB is gaining ground quickly on vB. But it still lacks a lot of features that even the 2.x version of vB has, like usergroups and detailed permissions. vB 3.0 (due out RSN!) will be even better.
Hopefully they will add in support for lesser admins! I have mine hacked to handle co-admins (who can't, for example, shut down the site but still edit users), but it's a pain to diff my changes into every lastest release of vB. If vB can do this natively, it's one less thing I'd have to sync up.
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