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Proof of Concept: Messages

 [1/6] from: ryan:christiansen:intellisol at: 25-Apr-2001 11:54


OK, people. I have labored long and hard to make Messages a slim, full-featured script for running a news site with discussion forums and classified ads. It is now the official engine of Fargo News at http://www.fargonews.com As you will see, the news headlines, discussion forums, and the classified ads all have different cascading stylesheets governing how messages are displayed, making them all look different enough so that you would not know they are being saved, retrieved, and displayed using the same engine. As you can tell, I'm pretty proud of this work. I have literally been working on this for nearly two years. Having no previous programming experience beyond AppleSoft BASIC prior to picking up REBOL, I feel I have accomplished quite a bit. Thanks to everyone who has helped me along the way. I now have a product I feel I can market to small news operations. Ryan C. Christiansen Web Developer Intellisol International 4733 Amber Valley Parkway Fargo, ND 58104 701-235-3390 ext. 6671 FAX: 701-235-9940 http://www.intellisol.com Global Leader in People Performance Software _____________________________________ Confidentiality Notice This message may contain privileged and confidential information. If you think, for any reason, that this message may have been addressed to you in error, you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it, and we would ask you to notify us immediately by return email to [ryan--christiansen--intellisol--com]

 [2/6] from: meta::dimensional::com at: 25-Apr-2001 11:08


Sounds very cool, Ryan. I tried to take a look but here's what I get when I click your link from Netscape: ************ Not Found The requested URL /css_stylesheets/stylesheet_01.css was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/1.3.17 Server at www.fargonews.com Port 80 ************ Best Regards, -Jamie [ryan--christiansen--intellisol--com] wrote:

 [3/6] from: ryan:christiansen:intellisol at: 25-Apr-2001 12:30


Thanks for the tip. I removed the link to the stylesheet (didn't use it anyway) and checked it in Netscape 6. Looks okay now. Jamie said... Sounds very cool, Ryan. I tried to take a look but here's what I get when I click your link from Netscape: ************ Not Found The requested URL /css_stylesheets/stylesheet_01.css was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/1.3.17 Server at www.fargonews.com Port 80 ************ Best Regards, -Jamie Ryan C. Christiansen Web Developer Intellisol International 4733 Amber Valley Parkway Fargo, ND 58104 701-235-3390 ext. 6671 FAX: 701-235-9940 http://www.intellisol.com Global Leader in People Performance Software _____________________________________ Confidentiality Notice This message may contain privileged and confidential information. If you think, for any reason, that this message may have been addressed to you in error, you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it, and we would ask you to notify us immediately by return email to [ryan--christiansen--intellisol--com]

 [4/6] from: larry:ecotope at: 25-Apr-2001 10:30


Hi Ryan Good show. News page seems to work fine with IE5.01 SP2. -Larry

 [5/6] from: arolls:bigpond:au at: 26-Apr-2001 4:03


Well done, it seems to work very well for me. Might I suggest a minor improvement? (You've probably already thought of it, though). List the number of comments posted for each news item next to the link "LIST/VIEW COMMENTS". (Also - I hate white backgrounds for reading - so if you want me to read your site, it has to be at least configurable.) Sorry to be negative there. (Same goes for the view text editor). :) Anton.

 [6/6] from: carl:cybercraft at: 26-Apr-2001 22:19


On 26-Apr-01, [ryan--christiansen--intellisol--com] wrote:
> OK, people. I have labored long and hard to make Messages a slim, > full-featured script for running a news site with discussion forums
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> that you would not know they are being saved, retrieved, and > displayed using the same engine.
Except on all the three Amiga browsers, (IBrowse, AWeb and Voyager), which don't, umm, have CSS yet. (: (Unless the latest versions of AWeb and Voyager do. Not sure...) Otherwise Ryan, the site seemed to work well on the above three. I tested searching and posting and both behaved as I'd expect them to. Posts didn't seem to be sticking though, in that while the one I made appeared amongst the messages as expected, it wasn't there when I looked at the site with another browser, plus someone else's dissapeared between browsers as well. Is this meant to be happening while you're just testing it? (Alternative posibility - I hadn't entered my email address, but should have?)
> As you can tell, I'm pretty proud of this work. I have literally > been working on this for nearly two years. Having no previous
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> ask you to notify us immediately by return email to > [ryan--christiansen--intellisol--com]
-- Carl Read [carl--cybercraft--co--nz]

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