Noanikko closes and blames wickednoukfamily

[SparklePlenty]

liegenschonheit,

Your theme looks fabulous. It's coming right along. Good job. I did manage to download the downloads counter plugin, now my challenge is getting it to work. I hope to get it active by Sunday.  :lol:

Thanks for the kind words, SamanthaS. And thanks for the cheat sheet! I'm gonna get geekified in spite of myself.

[liegenschonheit]

Thanks sparkle

I think I have the theme all sorted now, and I've already become a plug in junkie! I even skinned the login screen, and I'm the only one who will ever see it. Now comes the fun part, re-uploading everything into new categories...

Still, this whole thing has been remarkably easy. I've spent most of my time fussing with the css style sheet, but really, it's a very easy way to put together a sims site. And I very much look forward to being able to update without having to manually add code to a dozen different pages.

[Saraswati]

I went through that too.. it's good to start with html and stuff, but it gets to a point when you've got so much volume that it takes up too much time to do it the hard way...

Are you using a CMS? It's really nice.

[ws-jessica]

just a note to you guys thinking of using wordpress....the more plugins/scripts you use, the longer the pages take to load and the more cpu resources you use up so make sure you keep it as light as possible, and if you're limited on bandwidth, get a plugin that can help you monitor that.
Wordpress is better about cpu resources than phpbb or the like though.
I dont really have much experience with wordpress, but I read a bit when nouk was thinking of switching over to it to find out about how much it uses up.

[SamanthaS]

If you're really worried about CPU usage you could install a plugin like WP-Cache.

I've never had an issue with CPU usage myself (27 plugins installed, 20 currently set to "active") but I'm going to install this plugin anyway.*

Love the new theme, liegenschonheit.  

*Actually, strike that, I think I found a better one.

[Anouk]

The fun stuff is:

- all your downloads will stay on a permanent post, wich can be linked to and will not change. Permalinks rule! (unless you delete or change it yourself)
- You can invite creators over, and give them different levels of priveledges. They can write their posts, upload their stuff themselves, and all you need to do is approve it, or if you know them better, they can just update themselves without doing damage to your site.
- plugins will make your website work like a cms
- you can tweak it to do allmost anything, and you can reduce cpu and bandidth usage with several plugins.
- it even has a few plugins that add a forum into the theme

It's just very nice

[liegenschonheit]

I think I've got about five plugins active so far, and since I'm not going to be using it for a lot of blogging or anything, I am fairly confident I won't keep adding them once I get things working how I want them.

I've actually looked at more than one CMS before-- Mambo, Joomla and the like-- and never really felt like they were right for what I wanted to do. I also didn't want a site that visually looked "blogish". I poked around at Nouk's site a bit, and was impressed with how Wordpress looked and worked. Once I played around with the theme, I'm even more pleased I decided to give it a shot. Now here's to hoping I don't bork it all to hell!

And thanks Samantha! I spent all of yesterday poking around in the bowels of CSS playing "whats this do?". I think it worked out okay

[i saw drones]

the thing i love most is being able to edit my html/css right there on the site, without having to use an editor and go back and re-upload and all that bullshit.

if anyone is using K2, here is the code for removing the comments (any mention of them, not just to say that comments are off.) it's as simple as commenting out the code that calls the comments:

Code:

<!-- <?php /* Comments */ comments_popup_link&#40;'0&nbsp;<span>'.__&#40;'Comments','k2_domain'&#41;.'</span>', '1&nbsp;<span>'.__&#40;'Comment','k2_domain'&#41;.'</span>', '%&nbsp;<span>'.__&#40;'Comments','k2_domain'&#41;.'</span>', 'commentslink', '<span class="commentslink">'.__&#40;'Closed','k2_domain'&#41;.'</span>'&#41;; ?>-->

it's about 2/3rds down the page "theloop.php"

(i know commenting out sometimes makes for sloppy code, but i'd rather comment something out and be able to bring it back if i want, than deleting it and being fucked later, haha)

[Hecubus]

You can pry my style.css out of my cold, dead hands.

 



(I like my site and have no compulsion to change just because you think wordpress is cooler or something.)

[liegenschonheit]

Hec, I don't think anyone is trying to force you to switch

A plain HTML site was fine for me for a long time, but now I'm totally lazy and want something that's easy to use. If I wasn't doing a lot of updating with downloads and all that crap, I probably wouldn't have switched either. Wordpress has its uses, but on a site that has fairly static information or doesn't need a lot of updates, then why bother?

[SamanthaS]

You can pry my style.css out of my cold, dead hands.

 



(I like my site and have no compulsion to change just because you think wordpress is cooler or something.)

I'm not saying "OHMGYGOD WORDPRESS IS THE SHIT YOU LOSERS!!!!ELEVENTY" like, at all.

For me, my site is a blog first and the Sims 2 related stuff second. I'm not a mesher or even a recolorerer, really. I recolored a few Maxis paintings with Photo Studio for a Bewitched themed house, someone on S2C asked me about them so I threw them all up together on my blog (after first trying out Googlepages and ohmygod I hate Googlepages).

To each his own, is what I'm longwindedly saying.

[liegenschonheit]

Does anyone have a decent collapsible category plugin? I've got one, but I don't think I really like it. I've seen prettier ones, but I can't seem to find them anywhere.

[calalily]

I'm with Hec - I'm not changing.   But it does look nice.  

[Hecubus]

You guys know I was making a joke, right? I didn't feel like you were pushing me...I was just sayin' I couldn't imagine going to Wordpress right now, as it took me ages to FIND the template I use, and I do find that style sheets are easy to use.

[calalily]

I knew it was a joke - I don't think they're talking about the benefits of wordpress to oppress us.   I just wanted to put my two bits in.  

My html and css by hand is hard, but I have it just as I want it at the moment. I think it's gorgeous and exactly me, so I'm willing to do all the extra work to get it done.   Sometimes I dread it, but the finished product gives me satisfaction to see it done.  

In deference to others I put a site map up so that those confused could use it if they need to make sure they haven't missed any pages. I did that when I realised I have 30+ pages of html, and while I might know them like the back of my hand, maybe no one else does.  :lol: