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Another change
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Theme change that is. I’d like to say that this is the last one, but it’s hard to say.
Anyway, I’m going to finish coding the view pages tomorrow for the Articles, do a bit of virtual housekeeping (the stylesheets are a mess right now) and then get started on a User Authentication system. There are a few premade ones available, so I’ll check those out first. If they integrate well, then I’ll take the shortcut, but I don’t think it’ll be too hard. If that goes quickly, I’ll start working on a simple forum – just threads and posts for now.
Finally, one feature I left out of the last post is a style-switcher, and I plan to port (eventually) every skin I’ve made to be available. I know a lot of people were fond of the green one especially. So once those are all done, that’ll make five skins by my count, which will hopefully suit everybody’s tastes 
Musing No. 1
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Here’s a quick mind-dump of things I’d like to do:
- Auto repeat IP detection on registration
- Better spam control – to the point of not having to manually validate new members
- Better tracking of tasks – quickly access recent moderation activity
- Find all posts by member (sorely lacking in IF)
- New report system – clicking report adds an item to a queue that staff can see. When the staff have dealt with it, they check it as completed. This way we have a log and we know everyone will get the reports.
- Move most moderation tasks to inline functions – moderators with power in the current page will see the corresponding links. I want to try to get rid of the Admin Control Panel altogether and simply have an extended pane on every screen for admins.
- Keep BBCode support.
- Mark posts as “quality” – members with, say, 25 quality posts will be considered for the title of quality poster, which will give them a few perquisites. No idea what they could be, though. Perhaps just a warm, fuzzy feeling.
- Better polls. The ones right now let you vote for every option unless you go with the first choice. I’d like to amend that
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The First Look
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After about two hours of coding and styling, I’ve got a preliminary Article system up and running. The code isn’t anything fancy – a scaffold could have generate a good portion of the logic – but as most Rails programmers know, scaffolding is a very small step, and is not too friendly in terms of semantics. Anyway, enough of the technical babble. Here are some screens. No ‘Single Post’ yet because my laptop is about to kick the ol’ bucket and I don’t have my charger with me.
Update: I might add that the color scheme is entirely temporary; correct positioning was much more important to me.
