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So where has Trib been for the past 5 months ?

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I know .. I've become a lurker ... but I've been busy and loving every minute of it ... If you're interested in what's been keeping me off the Asylum, please take a peek at [url=http://www.rssd.esa.int]http://www.rssd.esa.int[/url] . I've been busy writing a site-specific CMS in the backend to make the site database-driven, and it's slowly being adopted by the content-owners. You can tell the difference between the database and non-database stuff by the menus - webDB content has 3D menus. BTW, as you would expect, the menus are created using forms and rendered on the fly out of the database ... It was all coded from scratch and I'm about 4-5 months into it right now. Just added an event calendar this week. Most of the work has been involved with writing the builder and filesystem maintenance sub-systems - the users now have a 100% HTML system to build their pages, PHP FTP emulator, and a javascript WYSIWYG HTML editor to edit their pages ... so they can work on their content wherever they are in the world .. I'm quite proud of it, actually .. It's just a pity that there's very little front-end design work involved in it (apart from the banners and general look'n'feel). Unfortunately, the builder sub-systems are restricted to authorised users only, so you can't really see the part that has taken up 75% of my time ... but from experience I can boast that non-technical users can now get a 30-40 page site up in a few days instead of a few weeks. Try clicking the Astrophysics link in the menu below the banner, and then on Plank on the page which comes up ... that's a good example of a non-tekkie user building his own sub-site ... Don't blame me for the front page, or the division pages .. I was stuck with those as a "my boss made 'em and wants 'em to stay" sort of thing ... and the whole of the publically visible part of it had to degrade gracefully into NS4 - so I had a nightmare with the formatting .. definitely generated some ugly code in places. Because of that I'm already considering rewriting it as a version 2, and :- 1) making it more generic 2) using PHP Classes instead of straight code 3) making the code generation properly standards-compliant 4) Abandoning pre-gecko compatibility 5) offering it as Open Source ... So your comments/crits/flames etc. will be all taken on board and probably incorporated into V2. So ... If you look it over, lemme know what you think. [img]http://www.trib-design.com/sigs/sigs.php[/img] Bug-free software only exisits in two places A programmer's mind and a salesman's lips [This message has been edited by trib (edited 02-19-2004).] Loading...
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