BabbleFest

Looks like everything is now working except the back end of the tag system.

So let’s try this one more time with one tiny change.

I refuse to use the word “tweak.”

I just noticed we’ve had some issues over the last few days with posts not appearing when posted. We’re down to one error on the page now, and I’ll be inserting the missing material in the order it should have originally appeared. It’s not your imagination, and it’s not the time travelling space aliens that provided the computer and copy of MS Word for Dan Rather’s memos, there really are entries from before today suddenly appearing today.

Did You Know . . .

Once upon a time, the garage  organizers were meant to sort out the garages only. That meant figuring out storage arrangements etc.  Now, the concept of organizers has broadened to include things as mundane as a medicine cabinet. The cabinet organizer is responsible for  everything from the cabinet  knob to the arrangements. With advanced technology, we also have organizers for data storage systems. These organizers basically make sure that everything in the data storage systems is in an orderly fashion. There are organizers for the entire home storage line as well.

We have a nice image gallery script running, much like at the original site, but including a sidebar slideshow. More about that later.

We have some preventive measures in place to try to keep the spammers at bay, so we’ve gone back to our original “open comments” policy, which we’ll stick with as long as we don’t end up buried in spam again. More about this later, too.

We have site stats up. With the old platform, some pretty sophisticated site stats were integrated in the core script. We don’t have that here, and we’re still looking at options, but for now at least we have a counter/stats block.

So I’d say things are coming along nicely. We’re still looking at themes. We really like this one, but the title block has fixed dimensions and longer titles don’t display well. Geo is threatening to start digging through the code to fix that. But Geo spending all his time fixing stuff in the code was why we changed platforms in the first place. So don’t be surprised if you stop by for a visit and the site’s appearance has changed completely, maybe several times, as we experiment with different looks.

The original BabbleFest material is now available again at www.babblefest.com/oldsite.

Most of the interactive features – comments, link and article submission, and the like -have been turned off.  The newsfeeds are still active, and all topics and articles are available. The image gallery and nuke-tv modules are also still working. We will be moving the feeds and other features to this site, but feel free to continue to browse at the old site.

Geo hasn’t modified the image directory yet, so posts containing images are, for the moment, displaying the dreaded “little red x”.

Welcome! If you are one of our regular readers, you’ll notice something has changed. Actually, everything has changed. For instance, where the heck is everything that used to be on this site?

We are in the midst of a complete site rebuild. We will shortly have all of our old content available in the familiar old format at a new address. For the time being, though, bear with us as we get the new site up and running.

It appears that we will be unable to transfer the old membership list, so if you were a registered member at the original BabbleFest, you’ll need to re-register here. Sorry for the inconvenience, but these things happen when you jump to a completely new and different platform.