T2D Progress Update

As many of you may know, it’s still down, though I am working on it. Here was what was accomplished tonight:

Wrote preliminary Coppermine integration. Support for full images, thumbnails and albums. Coppermine front end is no longer needed except for additions. Need to finish formatting and CSS.
Began work on relative links page to link together codes, screenshots, reviews, and features that mention a game. Trying to find a way to speed up the queries because they’re very messy.
Started converting old reviews to use the new Coppermine integration, still a long ways to go though. Need to get Coppermine integration to alternate thumbnails between left and right alignment. This shouldn’t be hard.

Now for what’s left — because there’s a long way to go.

Write a new custom component for maintaining a codes/tricks database.
Expand profiles to let people keep Top 10 lists of their favourite games and add a search feature to find members who like the same games.
Complete redesign of the web pages to use as few tables and as much CSS as possible. Phase out as much of the Mambo front-end as possible.

So as I’m sure you can guess from that last one alone, don’t hold your breath. It’s going to be a while. Suggestions for things to add are welcome. I was considering doing a game database, but it’s just far too much work to keep straight, and if you want a good game database (of non-Asia games anyway, nobody seems to index Chinese/Korean stuff…) just go to VGRebirth.