Thanks Andrew! No worries about navigating the site code. I'll help you through that.
As I mentioned to Andrew privately, he seems fairly qualified for the task. Community thoughts? I figure I'll leave this open for a few days for community discussion and give a chance for anyone else who may be interested to speak up, then start talking with interested parties. On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Andrew Vineyard <[email protected]>wrote: > I can help out. I'm fluent in html, css, and php, taking classes in web > design non-stop since junior year of high school in 06-07. It was my 1st > year in College, 08-09, where I learned how to use MySQL and then PHP to > bridge the two. Now 2014, and I have an associates in programming, should > be getting my bachelors in a few days in general IT, with enough experience > in web design to know what I'm do<afred //"ing"</>. :P > > It may be difficult to find my way through the site, but that doesn't mean > I won't be able to handle myself. Like all programmers, it just takes a > while to learn the coding styles of others and understand what each block > of code does. Hopefully you have comments on your pages that could help. > > I've been helping friends out with their sites and stuff, like someone on > deviantart is getting my help with customizing their journal backgrounds, > gallery, and profile page. Another friend, whom many of you probably know > of, is Cervelet <https://cervelet.deviantart.com/>, who does the hit TF > web comic Addictive Science <http://addictivescience.smackjeeves.com/>. > Hint: I helped him set up that smackjeeves page and customize the template, > which was after I discovered him on deviantart and brought him to the > Lapinia IRC to hang out and chat with other Mad Scientist TFers. > > Again, I can help out. Right now I'm a fresh college graduate searching > for a job while working with people to help them with their own sites and > pages. I doubt even with a job I'll be too busy with the archive. Just > might mean I would have to work on it in later hours when I'm free from the > earthly shackles known as a J.O.Double-B. > > > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Virmir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I'm please to announce another update to the Metamor Keep Story Archives. >> >> http://metamorkeep.com >> >> This week's update is the Hawl's latest story. Enjoy! >> >> >> As some of you have surely noticed, I've been less and less involved with >> the MK community following the completion of my MK arc some years ago. My >> situation has changed significantly since I first started taking care of >> the archives in 2007-- namely I have a lot more websites I'm managing, a >> weekly webcomic, a second sporadic comic I'd like to update more often, >> plus many weekly commissions and other fun projects going on. I believe >> it's time for me to step down from my role of archivist and pass the torch >> to someone more involved and active as Thaeus had done before me. >> >> That said-- ARCHIVIST WANTED. INQUIRE WITHIN. >> >> Maintaining the archives is not that huge of a deal. You should have >> basic HTML knowledge and be comfortable converting large stories to this >> format. There is PHP code in the header of each story that also needs to be >> added, but it is extremely simplistic and you don't really need to be >> familiar with the language at all. Some MySQL familiarity would be helpful. >> I have programed some extremely crude admin panel pages which insert the >> stories, pictures, etc into the database, but there a few things you need >> to go into the database directly for (using Xepher.net's PHPmyAdmin panel). >> I can put together a guide how to do this stuff. Also, you should have a >> method for resizing images and making thumbnails, as the gallery needs >> these uploaded manually. >> >> Also, fair warning-- 2008-era Virmir-code is terrifying. I mean, the site >> is pretty simplistic, but I haven't looked at the code in many years and am >> afraid of what I might find if I do. ;) >> >> I figure it would be best for interested parties to publicly post to the >> list so the whole community can share their input. It's not a dire >> emergency that I step down today, so feel free to send stories to me until >> we figure out who's going to be doing this for sure. I also don't intend to >> disappear for good-- I'll be around for guidance and questions! >> >> Thanks, folks. It's been fun! >> >> -- >> - Virmir | http://virmir.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MKGuild mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild >> >> > -- - Virmir | http://virmir.com
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