Ratlover 2.0
I just relaunched my Ratlover community site on the Ning platform. The old ratlover.net site was using Wordpress/phpBB/Gallery. It worked ok, but it wasn’t so dynamic. I toyed around with switching to Drupal, with more control over the administration part, but then decided to test it out on Ning. The results are not too bad so far. What I really like about it is how easy it is for people to post comments, photos, and videos, and how easy it is for me to moderate them, sort them into different albums, and to create new albums. I can also add widgets from third-party widget providers, which was cool. What I didn’t like about it is the forum. I’m a little old-skool, and like my forums to look like forums, with the title on the left, how many views, and how many replies on the right, in a table format. Ning’s forum is more like a blog entry with comments on the bottom, which does take getting used to. I hope they might change that format to the old-skool style, or maybe offer two options for the network owners to choose from.
They do have a developer section which I’ve just started to explore, so I’m not sure how much customization to the code I can make.
So here’s my Ratlover 2.0 site. Well, you might be interested if you have a Rat Terrier.
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