Fri Sep 05, 2008 6:21 pm
Hey Shawn,
ckirby doesn't want me to share what he's working on. nkirby is working on updating all the pages to use a new internal system, I believe. I expect that there will be new things by the end of the year. Maybe a new mail system or fixing the exif thing. You can expect RADICAL changes by the end of next year at least.
Shawn, people who "work all day and have family to attend to" find time to research their hobby. If they want to do good photography, they research technique and camera hardware and analyze their own methods and the photographs which resulted from those methods. If they want to display their photographs on the internet as an extension of their hobby, it's in their best interest to research about how to do that. That will include learning HTML and CSS if they don't like the look of what's available by default. Trust me, they aren't terribly difficult languages to learn and there are more resources for researching those two languages than you can shake a stick at. The bottom line is that no matter how many style templates we provide, chances are slim that one of them will be exactly what you want. So you end up settling for a style that isn't quite right because you don't want to learn about something that is directly related to what you want to do. Also there is a forum for discussing and sharing CSS and HTML tips and many people provide easy access to their most requested styles. Of course, if you want to tweak the code you get from someone else, you'll still have to learn something. In my opinion the few and very basic templates are great because they provide a nice beginner tutorial. Mess around with them a little bit and you'll get the idea of what's going on. Then you'll be able to figure out how to set up your page the way you want it. Not only that, but learning HTML and CSS could be good for you in things other than your PBase site. Maybe you get the idea to set up a different website that is unrelated to photography. You'll already have some experience writing webpages.
Members getting javascript into their pages is the vulnerability. From what I understand, there isn't a good systematic way of parsing out the dangerous javascript.
I'm not sure where you're getting your "'AVERAGE' person", but they don't seem very interested in how they display their photographs. That being the case, PBase has a small number of choices for them so they don't have to go through lots of trouble figuring out which one is best. Why are they griping on the forum? They aren't pleased that they were able to upload their photographs and have them automatically displayed in a webpage? Obviously, every request from every person isn't going to be accepted and those that are accepted will not be immediately available.
You're right. The search is unreliable. No one is working on it right now, but it's on the to-do list.
Your cynicism about Slug and Emily is pretty silly. Slug is in the office every day. Lately he's been kept busy trying to figure out how to fix the slowness some members are experiencing.
I don't mind talking on the forum. Hearing complaints doesn't inherently bother me. Only when the complaint is about me and doesn't seem justified will it bother me.
NoOutlet
