Survey posted 2004-07-02 23:04 by Jon.

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Survey idea by Morgan, choices by me : )

Your choices suck!

:-) J/K

I actually greatly appreceiate you taking over the surveys for the current time. Thanks!

Is there any way to change your vote? I've decided that I really like it.

no

On that note, is there anyway to change my name to "Lewk of Serthic", instead of "Lewk Of Serthic"?

no

That sucks.

Agreed. I wish I hadnt used my real name, but theres no
way for me to change it.

Esp. seeing that you have an option of using your handle or your real name. My handle is Theycallmeyams.

-W-

its a great site, it just needs more users!!!

-jordan

Couldn't have stated it better!

I agree with this... the stuff you can do on that site is cool (make your own threads and polls), but I don't go there very often at all, since ticalc.org provides all the news, programs, and entertainment (hehe) that I need. :)

I just went there for the first time. It looks great. I'll go create an account right now.

yes i agree the site layout is excellent, but not quite the best. vaguely postnuke-ish, but I prefer phpnuke by far. the best site layout i've ever seen was a custom layout for postnuke... I screenshotted the whole thing :)

What is postnuke?

ever heard of a CMS? Take a huge site like slashdot. Dozens of news items a day, tens (even hundreds) of thousands of comments a day. Do you think that every time someone wants to post a comment, the comment is emailed to the admin to manually paste into a table template and add to the comments page? Or that every news item must be added manually, added to the search and topic index all by hand? Thus the beauty of the CMS is born. Standing for Content Management System, CMS allows easy, web-based access to your site, auto-indexing and sorting all comments, news, polls, and users. A large system like this costs anywhere from free (PostNuke, a php-based CMS that focuses on security more than accessability and sleekness; PHP-Nuke, another php-based CMS that's renouned for its power and ease of use; aspnuke, an ASP-based CMS) to thousands of dollars (can't quite remember the name). I use PHPnuke myself, and though it's certainly the most accessable CMS, it's really buggy and tweaking it is really dangerous. It ships with a couple of deadly bugs on certain platforms, and of course a bit of experience is needed to figure out the phpbb administration system.

"CMS allows easy, web-based access to your site"
that should have been "CMS allows easy, web-based administration to your site"

actually it was aspnuke, i went back and checked. Screenshots at:
http://www.imagepilot.com/ img.dll?x=20040704 _16:36:39_1.PNG
http://www.imagepilot.com/ img.dll?x=20040704 _16:38:10_3.PNG
http://www.imagepilot.com/ img.dll?x=20040704 _16:40:53_2.GIF
Note that the last image i had to save as a gif so it's not as detailed and there are two spaces in each link, one after .com/ and the other after x=20040704.

Speaking of comment systems:

I always wanted to know how ticalc.org does its comment system. I've tried to copy that, but I guess I just don't have the skills yet.

Anyway, does anyone know of a script anywhere that I could download to look at the source code? I've e-mailed webmaster@ticalc.org, but I've never gotten a response.

Doesn't seem like a site that I care about really.

It really isnt too much different from this site except there are no programs and no members