In the wee hours of yesterday evening the new look Gurn.net launched, a site run by a couple of personal friends (Meza & Rowan) also living in good old Northamption, which has shared this very server for the last 2 and bit years. Aside from me being the “Linux Admin” for the old site, I was asked for my input as they were keen to move to the site design to something more CSS orientated, it appears the comment I put in the top of the mock-up page containing various XHTML elements all brightly coloured, annotated and placed pretty much as per the PhotoShop reference I had has survived to this day!
<!--
This page is new Gurn.net by Gurn.net Ltd, thanks to
Richard Deighton and Jonathan Stanley
Page tests ok in:
* Mozilla 1.7b
* Firebird 0.7
* Firefox 1.0 Win / OSX
* Opera 7.54 Win / OSX
* Internet Explorer (Win) 6.0
* Internet Explorer (Win) 5.5 SP2
* Internet Explorer (Win) 5.01 SP2
* Safari 1.2.4 (v125.11) OSX
The page however does get killed by Netscape 4.x, IE4.x and
MAC IE5 but people who use those should really upgrade
their browser to something modern.
http://www.getfirefox.com
-->
There are some additions obviously as back when I made the page. Firefox didn’t exist for one as it was still Firebird, not to mention I personally didn’t have any OSX platform to test said mock-up page on. Also as the development site was worked on, “Structuralist Draconianism” I would have gone for gave way to something a little more pragmatic. Still, the results are impressive as the mark-up is much more readable and more or less validates and such remaining issues, if they wish to be tackled are actually quite trivial to fix.
So all in all, pretty impressive work consider that the lads had no experience with this CSS and structural XHTML lark not exactly that long ago plus they had to build the new site’s back-end system from scratch along the way… The things the two lads do for the British night-clubbing and DJ-ing crowd!
I can also give myself a pat on the back in setting up their new server which has handled the launch with their not exactly small community of 12 000 members and 2.4 million posts barely using any CPU cycles! ;)
19:34:11 up 10 days, 4:33, 2 users, load average: 0.33, 0.30, 0.22
74 processes: 73 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 3.3% user, 1.3% system, 0.0% nice, 95.4% idle
Mem: 1550684K total, 1504780K used, 45904K free, 53020K buffers
Swap: 2097136K total, 0K used, 2097136K free, 684728K cached
As the old site says… “Gurn is dead, long live Gurn!”. :D
