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Posted by Ken S (212.84.97.130) on 12:21:44 02/November/07
In Reply to: Re: New web site posted by Weed
: i've used CPanel, but not the forum facility -- happy to trust your judgement
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I've done a few using Cpanel and have had no problems yet, Dave has suggested somethig else that I will look into.
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: : the type of CMS/php/mysql work that Dave is doing would fit the bill well.
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:possibility is the Facebook route -- (haven't used it much myself, on principle, cos their support refuses to acknowledge my complaint that its membership form discriminates against people with only one name)
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I've never used it either and feel that we could do better with a custom job under our own collective control. have they just been purchased?
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: : galleries could continue to be held at flickr?
: : the forum & blogs could also be elsewhere.
: : Perhaps that way the work could be divided out amongst those of us that tread the byte path.
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: that has advantage if one goes down the rest are ok, and as u say, it splits the work -- tho internal pm wouldn't work across the sites, and consistent branding would take more effort :)
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The Cpanel forum provides a pm system which would do as a fall-back for those who didn't want to use personal e-mail. As for branding consistency I confess to not imagining it as a possibility and think the diversity will be more suited to us!.
Just looking at the difference between Chris SS and Andy's sites underlines that we're all in different places perhaps all we need is some central 'functions' and a good links page.
Separating some of the more basic functions i.e. forums, blogs and galleries would perhaps allow Joelle to focus more on the creative ideas she has.
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: i don't have time to be involved in new setups, but will no doubt be an end user
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ars longa vita brevis as they say!
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: : for me there is a little too much wariness re the moderation suggestion...
: : membership...primarily ex-residents... not be so vulnerable to trolling.
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: even with automatic membership and without any prior moderation, the main problem is likely to be the removal of the occasional spam entry with its link to a commercial site -- protection levels on blogs, galleries etc are easy enough to adjust if necessary
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: NB i've now removed protection for the message board, which means it will be indexed & archived by the major search engines
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noted
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