I've been enjoying a lot of American movies lately: the Lord of the Rings movies, the Harry Potter movies, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and Spirited Away (that one's a Disney movie!).
I guess Hollywood can produce a decent movie after all! Well... executive produce anyway.
I don't have any useful advice for your webpage structure, but I there is some hope for images.
PHP has an image processing library that let's you do composite image stuff on the fly, including adding text to images. I've never used it, but it looks fairly powerful.
The big drawback is they originally implemented the system to generate GIFs, and then the GIF trouble happened, and they seem to have withdrawn that image genaration feature. From what I've read, it looks like all it takes is a couple pico changes, and a recompile before you're up and generating pngs.
...but don't quote me on that, I gave up trying to use it when I realized I'd have to put effort into it.
I know there are any number of Katz bashing posts I could comment on, this just happens to be the comment I choose. So, nuthin' personal, swordgeek.
Anyway, my point is simple. I don't think Slashdot must necessarily be a website by/for/about tech stuff. I think Slashdot would loose a lot if it focused strictly on technology issues, and not on any of the border-line issues, that relate to technology. I really appreciate news on consoles, movies, books, politics, etc.
Put differently, is not the corporatization of the Internet "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters"? So what if he screws up his terminology. He learns tech stuff from us, and maybe we can get a different point of view on these new trends from him.
I've always found the humble approach gets the most results in life. Not grovelling or anything, just not arrogant. To that end, I feel grateful that somebody who has little practical use for Slashdot and who has been scorned so brutally still persists in trying to contribute to the site.
Slashdot Mirror
Yup,
I've been enjoying a lot of American movies lately: the Lord of the Rings movies, the Harry Potter movies, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and Spirited Away (that one's a Disney movie!).
I guess Hollywood can produce a decent movie after all! Well... executive produce anyway.
For me, it's either royal cubits or nothing!
I don't have any useful advice for your webpage structure, but I there is some hope for images.
...but don't quote me on that, I gave up trying to use it when I realized I'd have to put effort into it.
PHP has an image processing library that let's you do composite image stuff on the fly, including adding text to images. I've never used it, but it looks fairly powerful.
The big drawback is they originally implemented the system to generate GIFs, and then the GIF trouble happened, and they seem to have withdrawn that image genaration feature. From what I've read, it looks like all it takes is a couple pico changes, and a recompile before you're up and generating pngs.
Pastry
I know there are any number of Katz bashing posts I could comment on, this just happens to be the comment I choose. So, nuthin' personal, swordgeek.
Anyway, my point is simple. I don't think Slashdot must necessarily be a website by/for/about tech stuff. I think Slashdot would loose a lot if it focused strictly on technology issues, and not on any of the border-line issues, that relate to technology. I really appreciate news on consoles, movies, books, politics, etc.
Put differently, is not the corporatization of the Internet "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters"? So what if he screws up his terminology. He learns tech stuff from us, and maybe we can get a different point of view on these new trends from him.
I've always found the humble approach gets the most results in life. Not grovelling or anything, just not arrogant. To that end, I feel grateful that somebody who has little practical use for Slashdot and who has been scorned so brutally still persists in trying to contribute to the site.
Anyway, that's my contribution.
Enjoy,
Pastry