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yeah, I'm trying to get the old stuff back up, but it takes some time, especially with rebuilding the picture gallery. It's fun look through the old pictures, but it's time consuming. If anyone wants to help.... feel free!

Sounds good. Do you want fold-down legs instead of something that would side up and down?

Ok, here's the question: does the bumper buddy need a kickstand?

(Or, some legs to hold it up when it's not attached to the trailer hitch?)

And another.... this could make a good banner if you zoom in on the blue part.

[note block]

Ok, Brad. I'm re-creating some of the old articles and I remember that I was starting to make certain CSS "blocks" for certain types of text. I've added them back in on motors.randomland.net, but nowhere else yet.

The ones that I remember I need are (and the names can change, that's fine)

• A note block and note block's text. This is used for "hey, look at me"
• A warning block and the block's text. This is used for "Warning: deer aren't as squishy as they appear
• A navigation block. Just something simple but unique-enough looking for hard-coded page links (like Francine Part 1 linking to Part 2). We could use some pagination thing for this, but I'd like to keep them separated, I think.
• An image block
• An image caption block (in practice, should probably embed in the image block)

I think there is one or two more, but I can't remember right now.

I was pretty sure I already linked this on the forums, but whatever. I'm probably losing my mind.


(This is what happens when you "find and replace" all "a"s with "i"s in an code file)

This is just one of those screen shots above with a couple of greenish masks. I was thinking it'd make a good sidebar type thing. You'd need some trickery to blend it into a solid color on the bottom, which could then be repeated to the end of the document. Or you could try and make it into a header.

Or neither. It is probably still a bit intrusive to put text on top of.

It's not real refined. That's kind of the point.

[wp-config]

We're still working on a good setup, but this very simple tweak to wp-config allows you to drop the whole Wordpress installation into another directory. When you run it for the first time, it'll set up the database by prepending the subdomain name.

We decided to prepend all "www" database tables with an underscore. All subdomains will be the subdomain name plus the underscore. To do this you only need to change three files.

Find /wp-config.php.
Change the following from:

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// You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix
//$table_prefix  = 'wp_';   // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!


To:

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$table_prefix = ereg_replace( '^(www\.)', '', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] );
$table_prefix = ereg_replace( 'yourserver.com', '', $table_prefix );
$table_prefix = ereg_replace( '\.', '_', $table_prefix );


Now the root site will prepend the tables with and underscore. All subdomains will be prepended with the sobdomain  name and an underscore.

All done!

I just want
chicken and milk
and he just wants
chicken and milk

Silage's "Election Skank"

Ok, I'm not sure how to pull this off, put having one of these images span the header and sidebar might look cool with the right amount of non-distracting photo-chopping done to it.





Ok, granted they weren't framed all that well, but the LCD pixel lines look pretty cool. See the full(er) size images in the gallery -- http://gallery.randomland.net/main.php?g2_itemId=150

Post in here what color schemes you think we should have. If possible, post samples of the colors. Also post and non-logo graphics you would like to suggest.

Yeah, I think "media" is better also. It's good and vague.

What else?

This is an old crappy:


Logo Album

[Main Site]

We're trying to organize the site in a way that makes sense. The old way was ok, but there were frankly too many categories with too little information. Instead of the old randomland.net/whatever approach, we'll be using vaguer subdomains.

Here are the proposed subdomains. Shoot 'em down or raise 'em up. The day of reckoning is near! It's time to unite! Stand as ONE fellow Randomlandians!
...err, um. Just give your input.

• 
  Main Site: will contain site news and links to subdomains via the sidebars and a sitemap. Also, useless little promo-type things we can't find a better place for.
  
  
• 
  Dev: the programming and computer development section. It will contain everyday tips and tricks for programming. It will probably also contain larger how-to style programming projects (ie: "Creating a Simple Flash-Based Side-Scroller")
  
  
• 
  Forum(s): here! Each subdomain would be obliged to have its own forum...or forum section. That's my thinking anyway. Can we set it up like: forum.randomland.net/photo?
  
  
• 
  Gallery: redirect to photo.randomland.net
  
  
• 
  How-To: it's a good name but breaks the categorization. Maybe make this a launching-pad for searching specific sub-domains. This needs some thinking through.
  
  
• 
  Motors: the home of everything that goes vroom! Car how-tos, the classic tale of the tempo, and land of the future SuperRiceBoyKart.
  
  
• 
  Media: I like music. Lots. I suck at playing it, but maybe I could put those stupid techno songs here and others could do similar things. Maybe music and movie reviews too. I am going to say that this eats the previously suggested "games" subdomain as well.
  
  
• 
  Opinion: remember all those old stupid things I wrote which were offensive and/or brainlessly stupid? Yep, that's what will go here.
  
  
• 
  Photo: we all like taking pictures. We will probably have a gallery and links to camera reviews and stuff.
  
  
• 
  Rec(reation): what's even better than taking pictures is taking pictures OUTDOORS! The woods and the goods. We'll post camping stories, suggestions, outdoorsy things, geocaches, and artsy things that don't belong anywhere better (like the good 'ol lightsabers page)
  
  

Ok, stab away. We need to hammer this out!

By the way, the (sub)domains are (or will be):

   
• www (main site)
• dev(elopment)
• forum
• games
• motors
• music
• opinion
• photo
• rec(creation)

For descriptions, click here: http://forum.randomland.net/index.php?topic=4.msg5#msg5