cms

...well, to be honest it's something I've wanted to actually redo for a while. The Caduceus site, I mean.

Here's the main page that I've already shown before, and the actual journal part. The purpose of the journal will be for Jon and I to write in-character things about Ryshy and Alexsei, to help us flesh out how we'll separate them from Exalted's Creation and into Eskarne (my original setting for the Anthegenia Cycle, and yes, also the name I gave the Great Bird in Reborn Again. It means "Mercy".)

For the user profiles, I ended up using a nifty Nucleus plugin for customizable profiles. Even if there'll only ever be two users for the Caduceus, I just had to get it done *right*. ^^;

I went through a few different and interesting blog software and CMSs before settling back with Nucleus, one of my staple favorites:

The upgrade took a lot more time than I would have liked it to -- not because Drupal 5.0 was a pain to install (it actually went quite painlessly) but because I had to retheme the whole site. And I HATE theming. Maybe it wouldn't have been as bad if I didn't get stuck trying to tweak this one tiny little nitpicky style error for hours.

The short of it is, I couldn't get the comments links (e.g. delete, edit, reply) to format correctly, because for some reason the code wasn't spitting out the right CSS class for it. I finally squashed the sucker by making a theme local copy of the theme_links function in theme.inc. All I really needed was to add the 'inline' class so I passed it in manually. Probably not the cleanest way to do it, but at least I kept it local so it won't get overwritten by upgrades.

Well now that I'm done playing PSU (played for hours and hours straight! Reina got 2 levels, Munaxes got 4 in battle strength, and I have a nice amount of photons for sale) I'm pondering working on some web things. Except that right now I am totally uninspired to mess with sim-chan, which led me to think of my PSU page idea some more.

Oddly I'm finding that as I look at other CMS's, I'm finding them all way more clunky than Drupal, which is still my favorite of them all. This may very well mean I'll end up using Drupal for sim-chan, but first of all my thought is to upgrade darksiren.net to Drupal 5.0. This may lead to some serious site breaking for a while (plus, the theme will change again. Sorry to do this to you Lumi :O but 5.0 looks sooo very tempting, and not all the themes I uploaded will work with 5.0, sigh) so don't be alarmed, I'm trying to fix it!