The tri­vial being forums that I and my co-web host run use the “Invi­sion Power Board”. It has ser­ved us well and now accom­mo­da­tes over 50,000 posts and 1200 mem­bers. An aim for all of my web­si­tes is to make them com­mu­nity orien­ta­ted. This has been fairly dif­fi­cult with the mini­mal IPB-site inte­gra­tion I was capa­ble of. Howe­ver, now I have dis­co­ve­red IPB SDK.

IPB SDK is a library of PHP func­tions, which will help you deve­lop advan­ced appli­ca­tions on your site. Inte­gra­tion bet­ween your forum and site is essen­tial in the web­si­tes of today. IPB already has a great mem­ber sys­tem, why re-write another one if you can use one mem­ber data­base for both?

I can now use the exten­sive and gro­wing forums as the cen­tral hub to mul­ti­ple user ser­vi­ces, new sites and much much more. Addi­tio­nally it is free and open source! I have already began incor­po­ra­ting it into my current sites, pri­ma­rily my Evan­ge­lion Live Action site which I have recently rede­sig­ned. This new dis­co­very will greatly enhance my future sites and pro­vide highly valua­ble user inte­rac­tion and mem­ber only sections.

As afo­re­men­tio­ned, I deci­ded to rede­sign the live action web­site. I really des­pi­sed the old design, it loo­ked hideous, con­su­med band­width and it was messy, inc­re­dibly messy, not only the look but the code run­ning it. I have since com­ple­tely revam­ped the site basing it around IPB SDK and a CSS style sheet to replace all the anno­ying font tags. This is ver­sion 4.0 of the site and peo­ple have been quer­ying as to what v1-v3 loo­ked like. I only have memo­ries of them myself and I feel some­ti­mes I would like to just glance at them again, for old times sake or something. So, if I ever change the current design (v4), here’s an archi­ved pic­ture ver­sion of how it looks now:

Now that I have some free time I have been tin­ke­ring with the site a little bit. The most obvious addi­tion is the post below, fully inte­gra­ted 2003–2004 archi­ves with blog­ger. This allows ease of brow­sing, searching and rea­ding of these old old posts without having to resort to an out of date v4.0 or v5.0 tem­plate. All old tem­pla­tes and since been remo­ved. I have also remo­ved the hori­zon­tal divi­ders bet­ween posts and left out the header.jpg light­ning image, as although it loo­ked nice, it didn’t suit the theme of the site. Simi­larly, the bulky wel­come text has been demo­ted to a sim­ple click to view link. The pre­vious posts and archi­ves links have been moved to the top of the page and also made as “click to view”. Link colours have chan­ged from blue to orange also.

The FofR por­tion of the ser­ver was a little messy with all the old v4.0 and v5.0 files lying around. So I deci­ded to import all the old cute­news entries into blog­ger. It took a good long while adding 211 new posts to a blog [Sept 2008: Even lon­ger put­ting them into WP, fixing the dates and cate­go­ri­sing!!], espe­cially when blog­ger likes to ren­der various html cha­rac­ters wrong and needs to upload each invi­di­dual entry. But I got there in the end and here is the old posts list, con­sis­ting of jour­nal enti­res, ima­ges and artic­les dating back to August 2003.

Old Archi­ved Entries:

2004:

Vero­nica Mars & Kris­ten Bell

Scar­lett Johans­son — A sty­lish alter­na­tive


Gersh­win and Zatoichi

Fear and Trem­bling

My Anni­ver­sary

Sam…

Sony vs Nikon camera comparisons

Leon (The Pro­fes­sio­nal) cut to bug­gery

My own stu­dent house

An update, uni­ver­sity year 2

My storm image

Macro of a spi­der

Sony Cybershot D93 5M

Current movie vote list

A theory of per­fec­tion and reli­gion

Look Harry!

Por­tu­gal Holi­day

Time to get wri­ting

Saul sells his busi­ness

New Desk­top

School of Rock

Water foun­tain spray

Bow­ling with the Sun

Fell down the stairs, went into shock

Serial Killer Movies

Water soa­ked ima­gery

Net­wor­king joys

Desk­top for 2004, a snow cap­ped peak

IE PNG trans­pa­rency fix

A late night sum­mary of my day

FofR Ver­sion 5.0

Why do peo­ple think Fin­ding Nemo was good?

2am here tonight

Satan pre­pa­res to attack a small church

Time to make ground

Evan­ge­lion Sta­tis­tics through the roof

Watching TV from above

John Tavolta’s House

Shaun of the Dead pre­view

First Week back at Uni

My cat, Cleo

My army of female walkers

Mac­world Key­note ’04

Copy­right Infrin­ge­ment Story

Pup­pet Mas­ter Record Com­pany of Avril Lavigne

New Year’s over and into 2004

2003:

Accor­ding to Erdos

Christ­mas is Near

What hap­pe­ned to this Mercedes?

Anathema Album art

Home Sweet Home

New Desk­top

DVDs, Kill Bill watching, Pos­ters, LOTR Marathon

Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaugh­ter House 5

Look Around You DVD

Look Around You

Ams­ter­dam Holi­day Image

A Matrix Revo­lu­tion and Steak

Thun­der­cat Ani­ma­tion

Con­fu­sion Realm

Pile on the work

Works sucks like a lolly would in an act of revenge

Lack of upda­tes and uni life

Pikah Pika Chu Pikachuchu! Pikachu!

Uni­ver­sity Adven­tu­res Com­mence

Lea­ving Time

Fast and the furious rice

Angel Fea­ture from FofR v3.0

Today a pac­kage came

Inte­gra­ted a sim­ple javasc­ript action

Kate Bec­kin­sale (again)

Dead like me and a hot bank clerk

An image leeching bug

Kate Bec­kin­sale

Under­world Review

Eva Rede­sig­ned

Let’s go deep sea

Eas­ten­ders

Dead Like Me

HDD arri­ved finally

The Holly­wood Ana­logy and Silent Hill

Cou­rier Lame­ness Thrice

Amber Tamblyn

XP ran­domly fixes

Shu­tup Lis­ten Boy Sleep

Scar­lett Johans­son

Dream of a goo­gle

Agent Smith Pho­tochop

Book­case Sce­na­rio

Sho­vel That

Missy!

The filesha­ring argu­ment

Desk­top: Crow Lady

Sit­com Phucks

RIAA

Louise Nur­ding / Redk­napp

Elephant

Metal Night

Shop­ping for Pineap­ples

A guy I don’t know

Willow & Tara Fun

Asy­lum Brow­sing

Foxy Aly­son Han­ni­gan

Solve this, a logic pro­blem

When I was a young boy gro­wing up in the ghetto

Han­ni­bal the 4th

Bill Pax­ton is Jeff Tracy

Enter the Under­world!

Uki­ta­ku­muki

The new links!

Dance my dear!

The web host and Voltaire

Doulbe Pho­toshop of mine

More Monica Keena

Last Samu­rai

Miike looks for fur-nature

Tri­vial Being (.com)

More Hotty with Monica Keena

Blade 3 Trinity

Webhost update and one2host suck

Keira Knightly

Japa­nese Water Slide

JVF et SA account et HA3

To See: To Do: To Remem­ber the movie

Punch-Drunk Love

Equi­li­brium

Why Bra­zil was not as good as I hoped

MMC pro­blems con­ti­nue

Movie Flops at Box Office

Cook a nice meal

4pm defra­gathon

This site needs more…

The Com­pu­ter Problem

Evil story dam­ned for life

Heights

Goethe was a good man

File swap­per fights RIAA sub­poena

Pro­me­nade Pro­jec­tion

Uni, Site, Day, ONE2HOST

Zom­bie Simulator

Sonic is cool

Talen­ted young fellow

Anne Hatha­way is hot!

Dark­ness and Miss Sparky

Com­pu­ter Stats

Ego Es5 takes on MPAA

Con­sole Wars

Bush Beats the Jun­kies!

Heidi Klum Makeo­ver

One Hour Photo Review

That Bus Woman

Drun­kard Rea­so­ning?

Evan­ge­lion Live Action Movie

Europe Tour 2003

My tas­tes, part 1

FofR Ver­sion 4.0

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Ori­gi­nal Date pos­ted: Thu, 21 August 2003 04:28:50
Post:
Here it is, the launch of the uber new friendly site.
Ver­sion 3.0 was nice and it loo­ked good but it was just too small and cer­tainly not prac­ti­cal. It was pains­ta­king to update and also very anno­ying. Thus here comes ver­sion four; sim­ple, ele­gant and filled with ego.

The site will be relo­ca­ting itself to a new ser­ver, hope­fully in the not so dis­tant future. Props to Sonny for temp hosting.

Being easier to update, con­tent here should not be in short supply. Hoorah!

Yes, this mas­ter work of red fury and anger has pre­sen­ted itself to you. Sit, pon­der and exc­laim while you still have your voice. Now I must get back to my regu­lar life. Toorah.