Sunday, February 12, 2006

Weird Nations

Well, been a busy old week for me - I've spent the last couple of weeks getting to grips with my new fourm at Weird Nations. Its my first experience of the complex vBulletin software, a major upgrade from the previously free PHPBB software I was using for the forums at the Weird Wales and Weird England sites.

I decided it would be easy for me to concentrate my efforts in one place and make one big forum with a more global perspective. I've had some steep learning curves with it - the templating system is very different to PHPBB and took a while to get used to. But, now I'm there and have a greater understanding of the systems. It really is powerful and easily adaptable software - I don't for one regret the change, despite the hard work I've put into figuring it out.

I've imported the old users and posts from the other site, tweaked the templates and now need to start growing the community. If any of you out there fancy joining up and making the odd post, I'd be very grateful.

Posted by Dio Bach at 14:24

3 Comments:

holly said...: Oh man. Weird Nations looks like entirely too much time-sucking fun. I will definitely check it out in depth.

Did you know we had a rash of sasquatch reportings here a couple years ago? There were lots of jokes about it just being one of the locals, but I know where the sightings were and the place has always had a very strange energy about it. I'd always thought whatever was out there was more lycanthropic, though. Not that I want to find out...; 11:57 PM
Dio Bach said...: Its still a bit light weight at the moment Holly - but hopefully it will grow as members sign up and contribute. Its a long term project (like most of them) :); 4:28 PM
greg said...: It's amazing to me, whenever I take a straffing run at your links, all the wonderful sites I encounter!

Havent had much down time lately, but promise to be back. You must be freaky crazy too now. Hope there's a sunny vacation in the future for each of us!; 7:14 PM