Big Update

This is your Admin speaking! As I hope you can see, there has been some work going on at Gingedas.net. I figured that after a few years of being online, we might actually begin to get a bit serious about this business, and actually implement some of things we were planning on doing in the first few days. Anyway, although we're still a long way from having incorporated everything we would like into this site, a few major things have changed already. Here's what's new.

First and foremost, we have update to Drupal 6. This brings a ton of new features and simplifications to this site, and should also boost performance to all you end users out there. To all the content editors: you will surely appreciate the enhancements made to this version.

That being said, you should not be all too shocked when you see that we have removed the WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCE) from the site. It really did produce some rather ugly HTML, and I am sure you will soon find that learning a few simple tags is really not that tough. There are in fact a lot of great things you can do now. One of them is the ability to display code using the code-tag. Alas, here is some Python goodness for you:

def helloworld():
  return "-".join(["hello", "world"])
 
print helloworld()

Neat, huh? One of the things you will see in the near future is a lot more code popping up on this server to help you master some of the pitfalls in everyday programming, or to introduce you to some awesome new libs and languages.

Another change in content editing, is that we are allowing you to post Full HTML source if you like. Of course, the use of this feature is discouraged unless you absolutely need to use it. So when would you need to use such a feature? Well, for instance when posting something nice, like YouTube video:

To embed such a video, simply copy the Embed script found next to the YouTube video on the YouTube site, and paste it into your content. Make sure to set your Input Format to Full HTML then. The nice thing is, that other tags, such as the code tag discussed before will still function correctly.

Finally, we are also adding the img tag to the Filtered HTML environment. This will allow you to add images to your blog entry by using the file attachments and the html tag.

Well, that's all for now. As I said, you should be seeing more changes in the near future, and hopefully more content along with it. To all our contributors: Happy blogging!