so i fooled around with the stylesheet of willy once again. i added a static image in the background (//this one), made that title's of a node have 70% opacity in both ie and mozilla and made some minor changes. css avail //here.

what do you think? better or not? drop a line...

since i disabled the pdfviewer on willy a couple of //days back, i still get a lot of hits from people who found a pdf file via a searchengine. these people wont get what they expected which is bad according to usability god //nielsen:

• In principle, users should not need to know about URLs which are a
  machine-level addressing scheme.
• Make sure all URLs live
  forever and continue to point to relevant pages.

even the w3c is backing nielsen up in //cool uri's don't change.

since the urls on willy are [friendly] and standard, it was trivial to rewrite the url with the pdf file to the url with the html file. like rewriting /myblog/pdfview/view/3282 towards /myblog/node/view/3282. only 1 (one!) rule in my .htacess file was needed:

RewriteRule    ^pdfview$  view [R]

magic url, voodoo url! :-) i needed a bit of help though from //engelschall. you will search for sometime to find an option like this in your ultracool gui-based iis server...

so you like willy dobbe? show it by having a small "go willy" sign on your site!

copy this code to your site and show you are a proud willy-teer!

<a href="http://willy.boerland.com/myblog">
<img border="0" alt="go willy dobbe"
src="http://willy.boerland.com/myblog/misc/smallpower/go.willy.png">
</a>

speaking for the whole crew, i say "thanks for flying willy".

i am using the new feed for tellevision now from //madcat. he even implemented some of the stuff we briefly //discussed. cool!

i also shifted the time to 1 hour in advance so you'll see whats in an hour (or less) on the tube instead of what you are missing out while surfing. great going madcat!

on related news, willy started this year by getting more than //100k hits which is for a soHO site a lot...

i upgraded the software (//drupal) under willy from 4.2 to 4.3.1. drupal btw is OSS.

the upgrade of the drupal core went fine, including the database changes. all went well with 5 minutes. then however i had to upgrade all the used modules which is a time consuming process (wget file, gunzip file, tar -xvf file, more README, mysql -u user -ppassword database < file.mysql, cp file.module docroot/modules/, chmod -R apache:apache docroot/, repeat untill all modules are done :-( )

then something went bad with the stylesheet of this template and i redid all the changes by hand again (no, diff couldnt help)

phase 1 is done, all functionality is restored (i think? please drop a line if this is not the case), now working on phase 2, installing new modules. will take some time...

what is changed from a user perspective?
Donwsite

• i disabled the pdf viewer, sorry goegle users following a link towards an old pdf, will not work anymore

However on the plus site:

• nice integrated admin menu's for users with enough rights, see the difference between the //old en the //new at drupal;
• easier new path function (every node can have shortcut, for example a download page with was reachable under foo.example.com/node/view/1 can have a shortcut to foo.example.com/downloads;
• installed forums (fora), needs editing before becomming usefull;
• installed the //atom module;
• random quotes (lower left) plus option for all roles except anonymous users to upload quotes;
• weblinks, kindoff collabarative bookmarks including taxonomy, following links to see if it was updated and load more;
• for users/roles with posting rights, better (easier) autopost option;
• moderation of comments installed by users (except anonymous users);
• new cool //events options (will add some more taxonomy terms);
• auto //glossary, when typing some words, willy will automatically make a link towards the explenation (e.g. drupal);
• traceback for all nodes, see //mt;
• remeind me, subsciption etc, posibilities to subscribe to new postings or events and be warned x days/hours/minutes before event happens;
• will install, excellent flexible new menu options, fileup/download, banners (text, flash, pic, clickthrough etc)
• loads more which i will descibe in some time.

If you havent already, think about signing up on drupal now by creating an account. i will never use your email adres (believe me, i get more spam than you do :-( ) and your address isnt listed on my site.

I will update this posting to describe some of the new functionalities shortly.

update: in stalled a private message module as well. registerd users can send private messages to each other. dont abuse kennisnet gepeupel, i'll get to you!