Squarespace featured on High Scalability Blog

The High Scalability Blog featured Squarespace recently and it was interesting overview of some of the technology that my site runs on.  I have to admit that I feel a bit guilty not running on Dotnetnuke or another Microsoft platform but I do like the ease of use of Squarespace.    I encountered Squarespace much the same way that Todd @ High Scalability did, through advertising on Twit.TV.  

My main wish is that Squarespace was a bit more extensible.  I'd like to add my own modules.  I'd probably even plug through Java to do it if I had to.  I'd really like to overhaul the Kingdom of Atenveldt Order of Precedence and put it on a platform that runs fast and is consistantly reliable.  This weekend I plan on spending some time on the site, upgrading to the latest version of DNN and maybe working on the skin a bit.  I have had a couple of designers show interest in helping me make a skin but nothing has ever come through with it. Maybe I can bring some more life back to the DNN based Atenveldt site with a bit of TLC. (tender loving care, not the learning channel... )

Altering the Look of the DNN FAQ Module

I had an issue with the way that the DNN module for FAQ's was behaving. Some extra space was appearing around my lists of questions and breaking up the way the page was supposed to look.  It turns out that the questions were getting these extra <p> tags around them.

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SCA Online OP Improvements, Link to Dynamic Forms Module - Part 1

Updated on Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 9:07AM by Jeff Martin

If you are not familiar with the SCA Online OP, it is a module I wrote and maintain for the Kingdom of Atenveldt, a branch of the SCA.  The OP part of the module stands for Order of Precedence.  This is basically a ranking system that we use in the SCA loosely based on historical practices of knowing who is ranked above who.  I have taken that practice and put a lot of work around it to not only list the people and what awards they have in the right order, but enable viewing pictures of the people, descriptions of the awards, information about the local groups the people reside in and information about the members that reign over them.  All of this can be found on the Atenveldt Online OP.

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Google Apps Mail with DotNetNuke

I was recently having a problem with the mail on the Atenveldt.org site.  I had switched from the host provided email server to Google Apps email, but in some cases email was being delivered to the wrong place.   It turned out that this was because I had the host's email server still set up in the SMTP settings in DotNetNuke.  The aliases on this domain change quite a bit as different officers take over and they keep the same alias but point to a new destination address.  For instance, the King and Queen of Atenveldt rotate twice a year, the crown (at) atenveldt.org address will always be available but point to the new King and Queen as they take over from the old set. 

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