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Tetsuo
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Personal blog and review website

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I have recently turned my flat personal website into CMSMS-powered one!

http://www.fointypinger.co.uk/

Version: 1.8.1
Extra Modules: Cataloger: 0.7.7, Comments: 1.9.2
Code: XHTML 1.0 (Strict), CSS2 + 3, uses the Mootools Javascript library.

The reviews are powered by Cataloger. As the reviews have various templates, this took some time to get right.

I had to simplify the way my navigation worked (previously it was two-tier which separated "Reviews" and "Features"), but I could not think of a way to have these two categories mixed up in the master "Reviews" list, it was causing them to split. So in the end, I cheated and used custom aliases to indicate the section in the URL instead.

Moving forward, I want to work out a way of having RSS auto-generated, and perhaps introduce categories and category filtering in the News section next. Also a way of displaying how many people have commented, although this may not be possible. I've been using CMSMS for a while now and thought it was about time I had my own personal site using it too.

You can change the style of the site from the drop down menu in the top-right. Overall, there are a lot of little CSS and JavaScript touches all over the place that I love to place around.

If you're interested in gaming, please have a look around! Bonus points for whoever guesses the names of the videogame themes I use on my website...

Thanks ;)

Tetsuo
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what is "Spiel macht frei"??? reminds me on something…
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Looks very nice. I'm looking at layouts for a dog site... i like you design.  I have not worked with CMSMS before so I'm learning... what did you use to get news on the front page?

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CynthiaBlue wrote: Looks very nice. I'm looking at layouts for a dog site... i like you design.  I have not worked with CMSMS before so I'm learning... what did you use to get news on the front page?
My homepage simply has a custom Summary Template, set to display only the latest 2 articles. The my news articles are all short, so I don't bother with any summaries, they display the entire article in the Summary Template, and the Detail Templates are just used "permalink"-style, and also for making comments.

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{news number="2" detailpage="Articles" summarytemplate='homepage'} 
nicmare wrote:what is "Spiel macht frei" reminds me on something…
It's the slogan used by that website I link to. "Speil macht frei" means "play brings freedom", which is a play on the slogan "Arbeit macht frei" which was on the gates of Auschwitz, meaning "work brings freedom". The website is about videogames, hence the "play" thing. It's just a joke really, with a dark sense of humour...

You can read about it here, that's probably where you remembered it from...
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