Just got a great email blast about my favorite client-usable CMS SilverStripe, and it is best described as “heart-warming.” The guys at SS have been working with Google to draft clever kids and make some great stuff in just two weeks. I’m not anything close to a developer, but I have a deep admiration for the kind of spirit behind an effort like this.
In the past six months, I’ve seen SS explode with awesome, and it now has a better UI than ever, a fancy Blog setup, and great modules for photo galleries, forums, and even eCommerce. If you want to deploy a super CMS that clients will love, I think SS is your best friend.
Okay, so I’ve only launched two sites with it, but I can still profess geeky fandom, right?
I want to log a few quick notes, though, for Googlers and potential installers:
- SS modules take up more system memory than you’d expect (they’re pretty powerful), so many installations with the big modules might return a memory_limit error. On some hosts, you can find your own php.ini and up the memory_limit, but on others (Dreamhost), you might just be out of luck.
- Due to SilverStripe’s root calls (I confess: I don’t know what that is), a few hosts will throw errors randomly. The big one I hit on InMotion Hosting was a BigMath.php error inside the OpenID Authorization folder. To fix this, you can simply delete the openID_auth folder and rebuild the DB, and it should clear up ASAP
- To this day, I can’t figure out a good way to switch from the initial theme to the theme in my MySite directory. I have no idea why this is, but the only way I’ve figured out involved copying a _config.php file into the mysite directory and making some (relatively obvious) changes.
Hope that was of some help to someone (like it would’ve been to me a few weeks ago when I was Googling all those terms). Now: LOST TIME.
So I attached the “beta” tag to the Loladex logo (improving all the time, add it to FB at Loladex.com! Plug plug plug!) by just sticking it in the same image. But the image had to be one link, and the tag another, so I figured I’d just absolute-position a block link over the spot and negative-text-indent the “what’s beta?” text out into the stratosphere.
One problem: IE and IE7 (perhaps rightly) didn’t think an empty block with no content, no background, and no effects counted as a link. The easy solution was to add a background image and position it out of the block’s “frame,” but I bet there’s a less hacky way to do it.
Didn’t realize this until today for some reason, but you can assign class and ID on an EE element by simply dropping class=”whatever” or id=”whatever” into the {exp: } tag.
If you haven’t seen the trailer for superdirector Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind yet, I won’t spoil it for you. Click here and enjoy the amazingness.
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Okay, now it’s time for spoiling. The movie revolves around Jack Black and Mos Def, who, after accidentally erasing a whole store full of video tapes, opt to poorly re-film each movie from memory. It’s in perfect keeping with Michel’s penchant for handmade special effects and lo-fi creativity, and it looks like it may be one of the best movies of the year.
In a meta-move worthy of the director of Eternal Sunshine, Michel has now released a second trailer, which, um, you should watch.
(By the way, the official site is just as ridiculously weird).
Quick thing I figured out while working on the new Viget Blogs: If you have a number of links standing alone inside LIs, consider giving them the display:block property. This increases their hit area and makes them easier for users to reach/click.
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