Joomla goes Hollywood … www.ltnla.com
LTN is a new local interest TV network for the Los Angeles area. With 9 shows broadcasting new episodes each week there’s a lot of content. The content team has 6 people creating articles and media. I chose Joomla as our CMS foundation for the site.
SpeedGeezers.com Gateway v4
I finished work on the new gateway for the sim-racing enthusiast site this weekend. It’s basically a hand-coded XML-driven directory of all the leagues and projects we host on the server, plus a nice open-source news script I integrated. The look and feel was kept very clean and subtle so it is more contemporary. [ Link ]
Find-a-Therapist Featured on MSN.com
Find-a-Therapist.com, built and run by Silicon Chisel, is featured on MSN.com. The article was in their YourBusiness section.
SpeedGeezers.com
The follow-on to vPaddock, this second-generation portal uses a combination of stand-alone technologies loosely coupled into look-and-feel. The technology in use includes the Land Down Under website engine, Gallery, IkonBoard, and the 4images media manager. Links between the major components from each other provide a way to conveniently navigate around; and using the best-of-breed open-source components for each area provides better overal functionality.
One interesting twist here is the use of the 4images picture gallery for a download manager. 4images supports a wide variety of media types – including sounds, animation, and compressed archives. It also supports the ability to attach thumbnails previews to non-image content. Since most game add-ons are audio-visual in some way, these features seemed an ideal fit for the needs of the community.
vPaddock wins Racesim Central Award
Racesim Central recently awarded vPaddock their "Site of the Month" for January 2002:
"The site we picked for January might have been around for a long time but we only just discovered them recently… A truly great webdesign, loads of attention to details, a dedicated community and some exclusive add-on material makes vPaddock our choice."
