As you can see the benheck.com site has undergone a major facelift. The main news section, what you are looking at now, runs off WordPress and has much more functionality for our viewers/listeners, including RSS feeds and a commenting system.
Every post I’ve ever done has been put into the database, allowing you to look back as far as December of 2000! There were a few months older than that (the *original* GeoCities site) but I can’t find the files. No big loss, nothing really happened until December anyway.
The DNS changed before I was ready, so I’m having to rebuild a few things (including getting the forum data in the right place) Stay tuned, we’ll get it going!
Forums are now up, sorry it took so long, I basically made a fairly dumb mistake. Or a series of them. Thanks to Jason Jones for knocking me upside the head and setting it all straight!
Pretty cool ben! alot nicer than the old look!
I love it! Now just get the forums working! 😉
Lookin’ good. Any guess on when the forums will be up?
Well, finally a forum that goes with the site 😀
Yay this site rocks! Hope the forum is up soon though.
lolHurry up on the Forums, I am BORED!!
Fantastic look, but are you going to be adding the shortcuts to each of your portables like before? That was a very convenient thing to have – I tend to look at your past projects for inspiration and tips.
Ben’s post deletion system seems to work well. 😉
Zing! Nice and shiny. Eww Diet Pepsi? Well i guess Beef Stew does most of the grunt work.
The new site looks AMAZING! All round and shiny. Shiny is good.
I just hope the database was backed up before the move, so nothing is lost. Would you want to upgrade to phpbb 3 sometime in the future? (It’s only in beta 5, and they have a little ways to go before it’s even a release candidate…) For now the latest stable phpbb 2 system will work just fine.
Nice design, very sleek. When will the forums be up?
The forums will be up “when they’re done”. Kinda like Duke Nukum.
The data has been backed up, several times and ways, so don’t worry about that. I just have to get a new install of phpBB to read it.
-Ben
“The forums will be up “when they’re doneâ€. Kinda like Duke Nukum.”
so never then? bummer, i kinda liked the forums
The forums come up and say they aren’t available, hopefully thats a good sign.
Do we have to reregister, when I was on this morning, the forums were up, but nothing was there, plus I had to reregister.
-Derek
no I dont think we do, but I re-registered before we went to school. I hope this doesnt screw anything up
BTW ben hurryup ive never been so bored in my life!
No. Phpbb has been installed, but as of this writing it hasn’t been set up to use the database. (Be it linked to the old database or a restored copy on a new server)
No touchy! Leave the forums alone! Ben will have them up and running again soon.
“Status: Forums are not ready yet, so please don’t bother going in there until I say so on this main page. Thanks…”
If you have the overwhelming urge to chat, you’re more than welcome to use my forums. 🙂 (There’s a temp area set up.)
So are you going to update the layout of the forum or will we have to continue getting eyesores from subsilver 😛
Yeah, something that goes with this new theme would be great! I have nothing against subsilver, but matching themes is always nice. Here’s one that is based on subsilver, but has more blues to go with the new theme of the main site: http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/885
As long as it’s optional, I don’t care what themes get installed. (Read: As long as they’re OPTIONAL!) I like the clean simplicity of SubSilver. “Function over form”? Perhaps.
hey its good that the forums down! im getting actually doing something usefull and putting a PC together!
😛
:drool:
SHIIIIIIIIINYYYYYYY
:more drool:
Just in case you hadn’t noticed: quite a number of the older posts (from November 2006 and earlier) have messed-up links and images because the URLs are pointing to your hard drive instead of your web space.
i have done some PhpBB forums skinning before. I could make it look like the site if your intrested ben.
sweeeet
great work ben. i listen to all the podcasts and i really think you are on to something as to the system modding.
a few questions:
why do you not use cell phone batteries for your projects? they have a long life and are very small, i would think they would be ideal? im sure you know your stuff and have a good reason, im just curious what rules them out.
also, any plans for hacks with a gameboy? reason i ask is it seems to be so small and easy to work with, and the card readers they have for them now make them do almost anything.
Cell phone batteries last a long time in cell phones because they draw very little current. Consoles and screens draw much more current, and drain the batteries faster. Imagine the battery is a bucket, the phone is a nail, and the portable a tent stake. The nail makes a small hole in the bottom of the bucket, so it can go a long time before the bucket is empty (the battery is discharged). The tent stake makes a much larger hole, which pases more water, which empties the bucket faster. See where I’m going with this? 🙂
Meh, i’m banned, but the site it cool 🙂 Nice work.
Looking nice Ben 😉
Wow I like this look alot.
Very nice! Only thing is, I miss having direct links to all of your videogame projects, articles (like the Future of Gaming), and movies on the sidebar. If you could bring that back, I would be very happy!
Besides that, very nice layout! Plus, nice choice using WordPress.
Yes I know Colin, what I’ll probably do is make some sub-pages that have complete lists of projects I’ve done. This site is still a work-in-progress.
Now that the new design is up and looking good, I can tell you this:
The first draft for the site, as presented in the forums, just looked like crap! I was worried for a moment. But it all sorted out nice.
joel: If you’re longing for Gameboy hacks, check out my photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gameboygenius/tags/gameboy/
Nothing as heavenly as mr Heckendorn’s stuff, but perhaps worth the visit.
The site looks reall nice, I especially like the random pic in the top corniner! 🙂
When are the movies going to be up again? I want to watch some nazi’s get their asses kicked without having to dig up Indiana Jones
There I just dug out last crusade instead of putting on Adventure