Website Update

[Austin]

Our old host, Blue-Canoe was free and we thank Nigel for that. Unfortunately, POL's website requirements exceeded what he could offer us - it was hurting his paying customers.

We're gonna get the website going soon. The boards were of course the most important... besides that picture of me with my friends in Canada and all that beer is pretty groovy for a front page.

The anual cost for the new website is $120 a year, which I invested into the project. What im hoping for is to use a resource with our new provider (dreamhost.com) that allows our users to make small donations that go directly towards our web hosting bill.. in a sense, a true self-sustaining, non-profit organization... uhm, ignore any embezzling done by Muad and I for beer... or four plane tickets to Las Vegas with names like.. Shinigami, Adam, etc. on them.

Donate Towards current bill (reimburses Austin)

Donate Towards Oct. 2007's bill.

[MuadDib]

Theory or reality....................

All that needs to be said is....... reality in my own mind.

[Madman]

Vegas is driving distance for me anyway. So no need to worry there. >.>

[MuadDib]

I gotta fly, but i'd have to take my mistress with me. So that makes up for you.

[Danielle]

It's unfortuneate I didn't know you were going with dreamhost.. I could have made you a promocode and got you $97.00 bucks off your bill.

[Yukiko]

I'll pony up some dough to help defray the cost of the beer or even the website if you decide to use it for that too.

*grins*

Just email me an address to send the check or money order to or get a paypal account I can pay to. I am not at all concerned with how the money is spent. I figure the POLitburo deserves some rewards for their efforts.

"A workman is worth his hire" is what the Good Book says.

[Madman]

We did a bit of a rush when we needed new hosting- with the site down, there was no way for us to actually let you know that we were considering Dreamhost! We did get a referral but I'm not sure if Austin got a promo code.

In any case, I'm considering moving another website to dreamhost later, so I'll keep your code in mind if I do.

[MuadDib]

Themes are available now also for the Forums as per Austin

If you go to your profile, we use the polStyle theme already for the forum default. subSilver we haven't done crap with. And we added a NEW theme called polSilver that Austin seems to like. Check it out by changing the theme in your Profile and let us know what you think, and any issues you run into with it.

[MuadDib]

New pol Silver theme set as main site theme. Please let me know of any issues. Missing downloads are NOT theme specific, so don't confuse that. Post missing attachments in another thread

[Danielle]

Did you set the new theme to override user settings?

Changing the theme in the profile has no effect.

[MuadDib]

Yes, until we can get some feedback to make sure there is no issue with it

[Marilla]

There's some trouble with the listing of a member's posts and, I'm guessing also, the listing of search results. The first result looks out of whack, and to be honest, all the entries are kinda difficult to really make sense of, compared to the rest of the pages.

I do like the style otherwise, though. It's nice

[MuadDib]

Doing a search looked fine to me, but yes I seen the problem with the Find All Posts By <so and so> from the View Profile page. Thx for the report. Will try to get it looked into and fixed up this week for sure.

[SMJ]

If you use "Display results as posts" instead of "display results as topics," it really messes up the display. The first one comes out one way, and all the others come out completely different.

[MuadDib]

Aye, that's the same layout used for the Topics Made By from profile views. So it's simply (hopefully) just a few table issues with style of the results. Hopefully isn't too difficult to go through and get straightened out.