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ELGG - The worlds ugliest Open Social Network
Posted March 7th, 2008 at 12:53 PM by TheSealPortalTeam
Updated May 16th, 2008 at 10:24 AM by TheSealPortalTeam
Updated May 16th, 2008 at 10:24 AM by TheSealPortalTeam
Okay, I was opening a Social Network site, and decided to use ELGG. Its open source and a lot of people are using it for production. So I thought why not use it.
Here are good reasons not to use the default installation:
I'm still wondering what I could do that won't cost me an Arm and a Leg. I feel like diamond shopping.
Here are good reasons not to use the default installation:
- The CSS and Layout is disgusting to say the least.
- The code barely validates.
- You have this odd tool bar on top of everything.
- All the links are on-top of each other.
- I created a layout that works for 1024*768 and above.
- It still doesn't validate but I added the fixes necessary for the profile to work on all browsers.
- Got some plug-ins like Vanilla forums.
Not easy at all, first I had to go though the installation wizard which only worked to create the database. A secondary script ran when you first viewed the site which also creates the same database. Why the code ran twice I'll never know!Lastly it was a pain, but so far I have been having good results with code. Still lack the people lol!
The mod rewrite only works on profiles, I had to improve it with further rewrites and still need a re-write for the blog.
SEO is completely not included with the installation, I had to write lines of code to make my profile site easier for goggle.
Another problem is my site requires a redirect, which means Google will never see my site, ever.
I'm still wondering what I could do that won't cost me an Arm and a Leg. I feel like diamond shopping.
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Build your own or a forum like vb with blogs like this
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Thats not a bad suggestion actually Simon.
Once you have a vbulletin forum up and running you can purchase something called vBSEO which sorts out all of the URL rewriting for the forums, blogs, profiles and you can even supply rule-sets which will extend to any mod you may write or install. Once you've installed vBSEO, you just need to do some on-page optimising - pretty good stuff really and a massive time-saver. |
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I need a social network like MySpace.com, something with networking. Not another forum, thanks tho.
To see what I mean my site is Personja.com |
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