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More theme development. This time it's icons for the forum.

A new look?

So, things have been pretty quiet on this blog since I finished my master's. It's been mostly because of (for a time) lack of internet, but also a lack of motivation. But all is not lost! Open Words is destined to carry on! I'm currently working on rebuilding the site from the ground up using Drupal in place of WordPress. My new job has given me new skills and increased confidence in my abilities as a web developer and I've come on leaps and bounds since I began this project.

The current site will stay as it is as a temporary stop-gap while I work on the new site, hosted here on my computer. My intention is to experiment with modules/themes/etc on a local version of the site, before buying some seperate hosting and creating a world-viewable version.

This is what Open Words was meant to be all along and I'm really excited about how things are shaping up. I hope you are too!

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Open Words goes live!

There now exists a working prototype of the Open Words site! It can be found over at congelical.com/openwords and anyone is free to sign up and start using it. Also, along with the forum, there's now an Open Words wiki, which has all kinds of useful stuff (or will eventually) like a "getting started" guide.

Obviously, due to the limitations of what can be done with WordPress and the available plugins, the site doesn't have every feature I might have wanted. But this is a way for me to give people an idea of how the site should work so they can tell me what they like or don't like. This is pretty much it for the practical side of Open Words in terms of my project. The deadline is in two weeks, which will be spent doing the write-up and getting feedback from users. However, this isn't the end of practical stuff completely as Open Words is about more than just making something for my major project.

Thanks for reading and please feel free to sign up and use the site!