5:42 AM:

Things Are Progressing

With a little bit of work, b2 is installed and running on my local testing server, within the template I created some time ago. I still need to edit the comments template, but it's there, which means less code to steal hack. I'm a little sad that I'm less technically-oriented than I once was, but ultimately, I'm thankful for all the free stuff that will help me utilize what I do know.

I'm banking that I won't need more than Webstrike's standard 100MB, so I won't be shelling out extra for their SQL Server 7.0 packages (the basic package comes with MySQL support). We won't be hosting anything other than the images required for the website and a DB full of text. There could be Flash, but I'm thinking we should hold off on that unless we get popular for some reason and need to upgrade. (#)

3:00 PM:

But definitely not this

Blogger claims to have lost each of my templates. Re-creating the template for the right-hand column was easy; doing the same for the entire page will be another matter. (#)

2:04 AM:

Or neither?

I'm still obsessed with the idea of providing the primary content contributors to DeuceTre.net with their own blogs. PHP-Nuke's "journal" looks like an afterthought. But what about multiple mutated Perl-publishing modules, like Blosxom or MT? Popular PHP modules like b2? Do we need a full-blown CMS? Most of these questions probably won't be answered until I have something to show... some form of proof that yes, we will have a home on the Web. It's just as well; the clock is ticking, and I want to have something live for which I really can make these executive decisions. Features can be filtered in slowly as I comprehend them.

Just for good measure, I should probably set 12/10/2002 as a deadline for getting the hosting set up. (#)