People may remember a while back I was asking if folks would potentially be interested in having personal profile pages where they could have a little 'dog blog', a pic gallery, etc, on this site.
I have been looking at the one piece of open source software that exists for doing this. Unfortunately it is still in early development though I could set it up on the board. This means it may be a bit buggy and also, that when the public release is available, it may or may not be easy to migrate your profile to a newer version of the software. I think it probably would not be hard to do this.
More complicated is that I need a certain version of software running at my hosting company that they have, but not on the server that runs the board. So they could transfer it, which would mean downtime for some people of up to a day or two while the new server address gets passed through the various stations of the internet (kind of like notifying people of your new home address -- some servers won't know where to find the board for longer than others which is why, when I first moved to the new hosting service, it took some people longer to get nack onto the site than others).
I think I am going to ask them to move one of my domains over there but not this one, so I can put up a test forum and see if I can actually get it to work in the first place. If that goes OK, then I'll likely try setting it up over here. I have to emphasise that doing this is out at the edge of my technical knowledge (which already is pretty thin on the ground! :lol but on the other hand at one point this board software was equally baffling to me and we get along pretty well here.
If you want to see what a basic profile page would look like, this is one:
http://interdigit.peopleaggregator.net/user.php?uid=12
This isn't exactly what I wanted as it has a lot more 'stuff' than I want on profile pages so I want to think about whether to use this or see what else might come up.
I have been looking at the one piece of open source software that exists for doing this. Unfortunately it is still in early development though I could set it up on the board. This means it may be a bit buggy and also, that when the public release is available, it may or may not be easy to migrate your profile to a newer version of the software. I think it probably would not be hard to do this.
More complicated is that I need a certain version of software running at my hosting company that they have, but not on the server that runs the board. So they could transfer it, which would mean downtime for some people of up to a day or two while the new server address gets passed through the various stations of the internet (kind of like notifying people of your new home address -- some servers won't know where to find the board for longer than others which is why, when I first moved to the new hosting service, it took some people longer to get nack onto the site than others).
I think I am going to ask them to move one of my domains over there but not this one, so I can put up a test forum and see if I can actually get it to work in the first place. If that goes OK, then I'll likely try setting it up over here. I have to emphasise that doing this is out at the edge of my technical knowledge (which already is pretty thin on the ground! :lol but on the other hand at one point this board software was equally baffling to me and we get along pretty well here.
If you want to see what a basic profile page would look like, this is one:
http://interdigit.peopleaggregator.net/user.php?uid=12
This isn't exactly what I wanted as it has a lot more 'stuff' than I want on profile pages so I want to think about whether to use this or see what else might come up.