What’s going on? December 8, 2007

As promised, here are some of the things going on at 10stripe right now:

10blog theming

Now that 10blog is up, we are working quickly to generate a theme consistent with the rest of 10stripe. Fortunately, this is not all that difficult right now. 10stripe has been planning to launch a project based on a different CMS-ish platform (look for more on this in the future) for several months, and will probably be moving mainspace content to a CMS (see below); for those reasons, we have already done a lot of CSS work that makes this vastly easier. Factoring in time to repair some of WordPress's brain damage, we still hope to have this done within the next few hours.

Moving 10stripe to a CMS

10stripe has gotten progressively bigger over time, and it is starting to look like moving to a CMS would make life easier. There are several common CMS features (automagic RSS feeds are a big one) that would help us a great deal. Most of the ground work for this is already in place, but we haven't picked a CMS yet. Joomla and Drupal look like the big contenders right now. We will be launching trial sites for both in the next week or so.

New webhost

Our 1-year contract with Dreamhost will be expiring toward the end of January, and we will not be renewing. Again, no final decisions have been made yet, although JodoHost looks like the favorite at this point.

And much more

These are some of the broad-brush things that are happening, although this list is not really all-inclusive. It also completely skips over content that is under development (in grand 10stripe tradition, there are quite a few under development right now), which we will try to cover in another post in the near future.

Posted on Saturday, December 8th, 2007 at 11:41 pm under 10blog meta, Meta by Aluvus. You can follow replies through the comment feed. Comments on this entry are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.