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StopTheAttacks - TerranTribune
« on: September 07, 2008, 05:57:46 PM »

Website URL: http://www.stoptheattacks.org

Additional Extensions: MyBlog, JomComment

Custom Development: None (unless changing the color of the MyBlog dates count) Smiley

Well, I tried to be like many of you and do a '24-hour' site starting from scratch, but I ran out of time...so not much content yet.

I'm still adding articles and blogs, working on a YouTube gallery to show political ads (like the infamous "Willie Horton" and "Daisy"); I need to clean up all the text and strengthen the writing (setting up MyBlog and fixing some issues was the timesink, so no time spent writing); I am finishing up a slick petitioning system I'm making with Fabrik, a report system for people to report attacks; I have a lot to do still, to be sure.

I do have 3 validation errors that are budding me, 2 from the Google search I used to replace the core search. The table error is bugging me, so if any wc3 gurus have any ideas...Smiley

I have an IE error on the home page (the 'inject' error), which I think is due to so few articles...popped up once I gutted all the errors from the launcher and hasn't gone away yet...think once I add a few more, it should be gone.

My logo sucks, but given my lack of graphic ability and creastivity, I threw it together in a few minutes, so welcome ideas for that, too...and any others you have to offer.
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« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2008, 07:07:02 PM »

For less than 24hr  Shocked, and very nice idea, and AWESOME domain.  You could make the site more broad on content beyond political views.  Just a thought, because it might get slow after the election.  Then again politics always has gossip  Grin
There seems to be an empty module that shows up after clicking an article.  It is located right under the comments.
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« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2008, 07:19:11 PM »

There seems to be an empty module that shows up after clicking an article.  It is located right under the comments.

Thanks, LIEs...changed the hilite to -ad to hid the empty title area, so I think it's gone. Smiley
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« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2008, 07:23:19 PM »

oops Embarrassed  there was an ad there?  I have firefox ad block, so I didn't know.
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« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2008, 02:11:54 PM »

For less than 24hr  Shocked, and very nice idea, and AWESOME domain.  You could make the site more broad on content beyond political views.  Just a thought, because it might get slow after the election.  Then again politics always has gossip  Grin
There seems to be an empty module that shows up after clicking an article.  It is located right under the comments.

Agree, wholeheartedly!

IN fact, you took an idea I  was mulling around, did more & better with it too. Nice work!

(drats - going back to drawing board for ANOTHER topic)
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« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2008, 03:14:38 PM »

Nice job! 
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« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2008, 07:59:50 PM »

I love this site. It has some serious potential for Palin supporters to jump on board. I can't wait to see what it develops into after a few more days. You may want to integrate something like http://factcheck.org in there as well. I use fact check information on my site right now because of all of the crap people post. I love it!
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« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2008, 08:31:42 PM »

Thanks...sort of backed into it when I saw that "Palin" was the #1 search term out there, so I was trying some domain names with no luck, moments after her announcement even! Man, those guys are quick...all were taking and somehow I made the leap from support sarrah palin dot com to this domain name.

I have no direction, conceiving it only a few days ago, so I'll take a step back and decide what to do with it...clueless. Wink

...but shouldn't be a shortage of content to get caught up during this election cycle...getting quite nasty out there.
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« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2008, 09:06:05 PM »

What I like about it is that, unlike most political sites, it has potential to run for a long time, not just this political race (what's left of it). It's also quite bi-partisan in nature, so you wont get the same type of stigma that comes along with most online political blogs. I can see a pretty good future with this one. I'll link to you from my site. I get a bunch of political readers, and have a bunch of crazy bloggers that write on my site, so I'm sure that they would appreciate another place to gather info and read about the opinions of others.
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« Reply #9 on: September 13, 2008, 08:52:32 PM »

Hey nice job Terp!

Have you looked at http://joomclan.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=1&Itemid=3 as something to help with the content population?  Looks to me like the *perfect* complement to Tribune's uber cool RokMiniNews.

James and Susan
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« Reply #10 on: September 21, 2008, 03:21:19 PM »

nice site looks good like it lots of content
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« Reply #11 on: September 21, 2008, 05:00:35 PM »

Hey nice job Terp!

Have you looked at http://joomclan.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=1&Itemid=3 as something to help with the content population?  Looks to me like the *perfect* complement to Tribune's uber cool RokMiniNews.

James and Susan

Thanks, James. Smiley

I've been playing with Feed2Post for another site; I like it, as you can set a myriad of queries for keywords and it pulls them in as content...cronjob...ad insertion, etc, etc.

I'll see if the one you mention has a demo, as I would like to try them all out before I settle on one for my real political pundity site. Wink
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