Online Dictionary of Playground Slang - Forums:
Still here and the news site is looking better than ever. The forums are actually working now (apologies to people who couldn't access them) and the theme is a bit brighter. As far as I can see we're ready to rock so I'll be amending the links on this page to show forum access as part of the menu.
All we need now..... is for you to come along in and help give the site some direction and turn it into what you would want it to be!
Cya there :)
Monday, June 28, 2004
Friday, June 25, 2004
Online Dictionary of Playground Slang - Forums:
Well, the forum site is now at least active (click above)!
We are now sitting and waiting for your input to decide which direction the the site will move. One of the topic sections to be added will include submissions we need definitions for, another will be for discussing whether some entries deserve to be there or not. For example we recently added a bucketload of Geordie words which could be seen to be not slang at all, but rather words from a distinct dialect or even language.
Other sections, topics, categories, modules, resources etc. Can be suggested by yourself and we'll add them in if it's possible.
So let's go!!
Well, the forum site is now at least active (click above)!
We are now sitting and waiting for your input to decide which direction the the site will move. One of the topic sections to be added will include submissions we need definitions for, another will be for discussing whether some entries deserve to be there or not. For example we recently added a bucketload of Geordie words which could be seen to be not slang at all, but rather words from a distinct dialect or even language.
Other sections, topics, categories, modules, resources etc. Can be suggested by yourself and we'll add them in if it's possible.
So let's go!!
Thursday, June 24, 2004
Err.... apologies.. .... changed my mind...
Having spent a couple of days fiddling around both with Mambo which is currently on odps.net, and PostNuke which I have on another site, I think PostNuke is probably the more 'powerful' of the two.
It seems to me that since we haven't yet had too many visitors from ODPS 'proper' that I ought to just drop Mambo and move to PostNuke now rather than later.
If you have an opinion on either - let me know or I'll simply move it now and hope all works out ok :)
The reasoning for this is quite straightforward. PostNuke for all it's weirdness does have a huge number of modules you can install which allow greater flexilbility of design.
True I have no idea how to use them yet, but knowing they are there will mean any suggestion put forward for site development will be better able to be accomodated and that being the case, sooner would be better than later.
I've been a member of sites which chopped and changed before and having to resubmit your details to re-join became annoying to the extent I dropped out of the forums - so - better now than later. We'll work with postnukes peculiarities and see what develops, literally. :)
Having spent a couple of days fiddling around both with Mambo which is currently on odps.net, and PostNuke which I have on another site, I think PostNuke is probably the more 'powerful' of the two.
It seems to me that since we haven't yet had too many visitors from ODPS 'proper' that I ought to just drop Mambo and move to PostNuke now rather than later.
If you have an opinion on either - let me know or I'll simply move it now and hope all works out ok :)
The reasoning for this is quite straightforward. PostNuke for all it's weirdness does have a huge number of modules you can install which allow greater flexilbility of design.
True I have no idea how to use them yet, but knowing they are there will mean any suggestion put forward for site development will be better able to be accomodated and that being the case, sooner would be better than later.
I've been a member of sites which chopped and changed before and having to resubmit your details to re-join became annoying to the extent I dropped out of the forums - so - better now than later. We'll work with postnukes peculiarities and see what develops, literally. :)
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Forums:
OK.... I gave up and went back to Mambo on the basis that if I don't do something then nothing will be done.
It's installed as a 'bare' site at http://odps.net/CMS/index.php but only available to those of you who read this! So if you want to be "in on the ground floor" and help design the place, here's your chance!
What you decide now will direct the way the forums develop so if there is something you want to see... now is the time to make your opinions heard,
Cya there!!
OK.... I gave up and went back to Mambo on the basis that if I don't do something then nothing will be done.
It's installed as a 'bare' site at http://odps.net/CMS/index.php but only available to those of you who read this! So if you want to be "in on the ground floor" and help design the place, here's your chance!
What you decide now will direct the way the forums develop so if there is something you want to see... now is the time to make your opinions heard,
Cya there!!
Monday, June 21, 2004
Gawd....
Blogger is driving me crazy! I worked out what the problem is eventually despite having had them look at the site a few times. It seems that despite my changing the settings, when I republished it refused to save them and continued to use the old settings. Ah well.... the wonders of modern technology.
On the other hand, I understand that invitations to gMail are only being given out to the favoured few and some of those are coming from Blogger.com so if you want to try out gMail it looks like you have to part of Blogger.
Having said that I didn't get an invitation via Blogger, but from someone I know on a different 'forum' so I will shortly be changing the 'send to' address for ODPS to the gMail one which should make sure I never lose another submission - all heave a sigh of relief :)
I enabled comments on the blog by the way so if anyone wants to insult me - feel free.
Other than that, odps.net is in the process of being registered and I'm going to install eXoops on that. I tried postnuke and didn't like it much - sorry.
Blogger is driving me crazy! I worked out what the problem is eventually despite having had them look at the site a few times. It seems that despite my changing the settings, when I republished it refused to save them and continued to use the old settings. Ah well.... the wonders of modern technology.
On the other hand, I understand that invitations to gMail are only being given out to the favoured few and some of those are coming from Blogger.com so if you want to try out gMail it looks like you have to part of Blogger.
Having said that I didn't get an invitation via Blogger, but from someone I know on a different 'forum' so I will shortly be changing the 'send to' address for ODPS to the gMail one which should make sure I never lose another submission - all heave a sigh of relief :)
I enabled comments on the blog by the way so if anyone wants to insult me - feel free.
Other than that, odps.net is in the process of being registered and I'm going to install eXoops on that. I tried postnuke and didn't like it much - sorry.
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Forum Update..
So I tried out Mambo, and PostNuke, and I can't say either of them were particularly appealing to me. Either Mambo or I were too 'simple' and I wasn't fussed on PostNukes ability to change themes depending on the users fancy - tho bearing in mind how powerful it is this really shouldn't matter. I suppose I want to keep some consistency of style between the dictionaries and the forums. If anyone has any suggestion feel free to make them.
Am now back to experimenting with eXoops. I'll install it on a different site for now and see where it takes me. If all else fails I can install phpForum here which, whilst not in the least attractive, is at least functional as far as it goes.
I'll get back to you on it asap.
So I tried out Mambo, and PostNuke, and I can't say either of them were particularly appealing to me. Either Mambo or I were too 'simple' and I wasn't fussed on PostNukes ability to change themes depending on the users fancy - tho bearing in mind how powerful it is this really shouldn't matter. I suppose I want to keep some consistency of style between the dictionaries and the forums. If anyone has any suggestion feel free to make them.
Am now back to experimenting with eXoops. I'll install it on a different site for now and see where it takes me. If all else fails I can install phpForum here which, whilst not in the least attractive, is at least functional as far as it goes.
I'll get back to you on it asap.
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Aha!
Just discovered that the past few missives didn't get here.... why I didn't notice when I visited the site don't ask.
Anyway... moving along from the embarrassment... I have had a few queries about when the forums will be in place. Well up until a few weeks ago they were all ready to fly, just needing some adjustment to the entry page. Then our hosting service moved all to a new server and somehow we lost the entire set up. We're in the process of trying to set Mambo up on site to see how it looks so please be patient. If it doesn't suit, we'll revert to exoops, xoops, postnuke or similar tho' the learning curve is horrendous :)
Of course my constant fear in all this is that somehow we'll overwrite some major file required to access the dictionary proper.... just the thought gives me nightmares!
Lastly we're considering opening the forums with a competition for contributors to create a new logo for the ODPS!! The prize will be small I'm afraid, probably a copy of the published version, but our appreciation will be immense. Watch this space.
Just discovered that the past few missives didn't get here.... why I didn't notice when I visited the site don't ask.
Anyway... moving along from the embarrassment... I have had a few queries about when the forums will be in place. Well up until a few weeks ago they were all ready to fly, just needing some adjustment to the entry page. Then our hosting service moved all to a new server and somehow we lost the entire set up. We're in the process of trying to set Mambo up on site to see how it looks so please be patient. If it doesn't suit, we'll revert to exoops, xoops, postnuke or similar tho' the learning curve is horrendous :)
Of course my constant fear in all this is that somehow we'll overwrite some major file required to access the dictionary proper.... just the thought gives me nightmares!
Lastly we're considering opening the forums with a competition for contributors to create a new logo for the ODPS!! The prize will be small I'm afraid, probably a copy of the published version, but our appreciation will be immense. Watch this space.
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