Well, most of the pages that had attached artwork are now broken, for several reasons, some of which may be fixed in later releases of the Drupal 5.0 (which I shall call DP5) CMS software.
All of the polls are broken, so I deleted them. Just too hard to sort out how to move them correctly and who needs old polls, anyway.
Some few of the pages that had attached files other than artwork are now broken. Luckily, it's only a few. We'll sort that out as we find them.
The problem with images is that there were four different ways to attach an image to a file on OTS (Old TopShelf, now ShoeBoxen) and only two of those now work. One of them should work but doesn't because of something that may be a bug. Later on that. I've unpubbed the cartoon pages while I contemplate infinity.
All of the weblinks are broken because of a radically different scheme of storing the info. The old links have been unpubbed.
Teasers and Notes boxes no longer work the way they did. I haven't put the Notes boxes back yet and I'm considering whether to put the Teasers in or not. There are problems.
The way the top menus works is so radically different I need a Navel Historian to help me out here. No typo, it's going to take something very like yoga and zen to figure this out. Which is how I did the story conversion, BTW. Went to sleep all annoyed because I couldn't figure out how to move the stories over; woke up went to the keyboard and typed in all the SQL commands one after another, smooth as rice pudding. :)
What else? Oh, I hate CSS. It's supposed to make things easy by putting all the formatting info for a page in one place separate from the logic in the TPL files but how it works is you have one big file or a dozen with formatting info, maybe another dozen with logic info, no key for deciphering which tags are what and it turns out after spending half a day figuring out why all tables end up with a top border when you can't find it in the CSS or TPL files it's been hardcoded into the CODE not the template. Bad programming defeats good planning every time.
What I get for working with Beta software. But Open Source is almost always Beta, the geeks won't stop tinkering with it long enough to call it done. :) And for every one O.S. programmer who is good at documentation there are six that don't do their paperwork, the shitasses.
Excuse me if I go back to writing or drawing for a week or two, programming is hard work.
Hugs,
Erin
Good Effort
I was rather surprised when I returned here after the weekend to find the new site! For only having been up for what, three days now? The site's doing wonderful. Especially with my antiquated 28.8k connection the increased connection speed is amazing, and very much worth working around a few bugs!
If I knew anything about programming I'd offer my help, but as it is, the best I can do is offer hugs.
Sure is fast :)
I go back to OTS to see if I've got any messages and think, oop? Server down? But no, it really was that slow. Most pages on 99S take less than 2 seconds on my broadband connection to load, even right now with 60 or more people on at the same time. I've noticed that the number of visitors is up about 5% but the length of time they stay is down slightly by about the same amount, so stress on the system is probably lower.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Images
The add image feature doesn't work the way any reasonable person would expect it to work, so I've removed it to avaid confusing everyone. It confuses me. Adding images to a story can be done in a way similar to the old site except that this site has it's own built-in gallery. :) I think only authors can use the gallery, but this will work for you after posting your first story.
Use |add content| and pick |image|. Add the image then view it. Click on the image and use your browser to |copy image address|. Then use that address in an img tag in your story. Here's a tutorial on how to use the img tag.
Hope that helps everyone.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
No comments rss any more?
(As subject...)
Soon on comments rss
It's there but it doesn't work right. It should be fixed soon.
- Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.