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Mar 2006 26

New website design

Posted by bsag

I’ve been hard at work for the past couple of weeks and have re-designed this site—as you can hopefully see! I used to use Textpattern for the site, which was very good, but I found it a bit tricky to maintain and extend. So after playing with a few CMSs, I decided to use the free ExpressionEngine Core. It’s really flexible, which has meant that I can easily maintain a more or less static front page with the features of Tracks, and then have dynamic pages for news, articles and so on.

I’ve added the existing installation instructions to start off a manual, which I’ll be adding to over the coming months. Commenting now uses CAPTCHAs, which I agonised a bit about because of the lack of accessibility, but moderating all comments was becoming a real pain. If anyone has problems submitting a comment, please drop me a line and I’ll try to sort it out. Note that the URL for the feed has changed (the link is in the sidebar). If anyone knows how to redirect RSS feeds, please let me know!

Until I’ve sorted out redirection, internal links might be broken. If you want to manually fix them to get to the article you want, just substitute the two digits in the URL with ‘comments’ and ‘article’ with ‘articles’. I’m working on this.

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6 Comments

Picture of Mirta Mirta
Sun, 2 Apr 2006 @ 15:02

All thumbs-up for this! New tracks looking good, but installation seems a bit more complicated (I barely installed the v1.03).

Picture of Russ Russ
Tue, 4 Apr 2006 @ 08:48

Excellent new site design - very Crystal/KDE!

Just about to re-install Tracks, so further comments on the app later!

Russ

Picture of bsag bsag
Wed, 5 Apr 2006 @ 09:14

Mirta: I hope that it’s a bit less complicated, actually—I’ve just made the instructions a bit more thorough, but much more is automated now.

Russ: Thanks!

Picture of Mirta Mirta
Fri, 7 Apr 2006 @ 11:49

Thanks for feedback! I am resolving some things at work right now. If not sooner, upgrading 1.03 to 1.04 is scheduled for a week or two from now, so we’ll see how the new instructions are holding up :D

Picture of Danger Stevens Danger Stevens
Mon, 10 Apr 2006 @ 20:18

Ahoy!
Thanks for the great work on Tracks and I love the design you’ve got here for the Tracks website.

Redirects can be pretty simple if you don’t mind altering your .htaccess file.  Just put this line in it:

Redirect /projects/oldfeed.rss http://www.rousette.org.uk/projects/newfeed.rss

Note: that should all be on one line.

bsag's avatar bsag
Tue, 11 Apr 2006 @ 17:56

Mirta: OK, let me know how you get on!

Danger Stevens: Thanks! I actually managed to redirct the old style URLs to the new ones this weekend for the articles, but I’m still stuck on the feed. The problem is that it was the result of a query, so I need to transform:


http://www.rousette.org.uk/projects/?rss=1
to:
http://www.rousette.org.uk/projects/tracks/rss_2.0/

I’ve tried all kinds of %{QUERY_RESPONSE} rewrite conditions, but nothing seems to work. Any ideas?

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