Project RetroLog: theme has been made

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Tonight I didn’t feel like programming so I decided to work on the theme/layout for RetroLog.net, although the core is far from finished, I had just enough to run a local demo and prepare a design. now 4 hours later I think I’ve a final version for the theme.

I’ve chosen for a clean dark/black design with soft night-blue and some green to break the design. It doesn’t look very web 2.0-ish and no cool graphics to stare at, but I want to honor the name of the project and keep it minimalistic and retro like websites once looked like. lets say it has to be a little ugly to be beautiful.

If nothing goes wrong a first beta will be launched around the first week in april, website will start as an invitation only for the first month to debug the main part, after that registration will open to the masses and everyone can start using it. If you would like to be invited for the beta just leave a comment.

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Project: RetroLog , the minimalistic blog project

I’ve this project in my mind, and roughly projected it on paper, with some php/mysql snippets. The whole idea is to make a REAL blog community with pure server-side programming. minimalistic so it can be used by anyone,and most important anywhere.

The key features will be:

  • simple registration
  • easy setup (no advanced setting for the blog,we have to keep it simple and easy to use.)
  • integrated webring for dinamic linking through the hosted websites
  • Direct advertising possibilities (without an intermediate,you can directly sell ad-space 125×125 boxes )
  • Comments with anti-spam and mail notification

Like said before the idea is to avoid as many javascript as possible, no fancy ajax that will only cause problems in the future.

If you think this project could be really nice and have something to say about it, leave a comment or if you think you are a super genius in PHP/MySQL then you should definitely contact me and maybe we can work on this project together.

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