Supporting Backwards compatibility is never fun.

What about having a switch? Flip it one way and you use the old style interpreter. Flip it the other way and you use the new style interpreter.

I'd have no problem with rewriting it from scratch in the new system while leaving my site on the old interpreter while I redo the site.

I'm looking to add a "Community-Made Templates" with an auto-templating system to integrate some Advanced Layout Options directly into the system.

What I need (and I'll be making plenty of my own) are some complete templates from you guys, if you want. If you've created your site with Advanced Layout Options, and wish to submit yours, simply zip up all the pertinent files, and then I'll look through your code and tweak as necessary.

Submitting a quality template (as long as I decide it's "good enough") will get you a number of things for you and your guild:

1) A free one month extension to the DKPSystem.com guild site of your choosing (probably be your OWN guild's site)
2) A free DKPSystem.com shirt for you (when/if I get around to making them).
3) Public Recognition with links both to your guild's site and a homepage of your choosing (if you happen to have a homepage or something with your resume or examples of other work, for example)
4) My love for all eternity.
5) I'm still debating this, but I was thinking something along the lines of perhaps a raffle for Template submissions to give some kind of prize for being "Chops' Favorite Template" (like a hot new video card or something, or maybe an OpenBSD boot diskette*) No promises on this one, but I'm definitely giving it some serious thought)


So, if any of you are up to making some hot templates for other guilds to benefit from, please either mail submissions zipped to sigmastar[deleteme]@[deleteme]gmail.com, post them as attachments to this thread, or post them as an attachment to a private thread to me.

Thanks everyone, and I look forward to seeing some of your hot submissions.

* Just kidding about the OpenBSD Boot Diskette.

Templates Deployed.

Check out Admin > Drop-In Templates

Starting with 4 templates to choose from.

ooo funky, i decided to see what it would look like on if i tried one, now it kinda killed my site and i have no idea how to get it back to normal, no undo/revert button

Sure there is. At the top of the "Drop In Template" page, the first section is reverting back.

If you were using an advanced layout before, then you can just download the old one from the "Advanced Layout Options" page and redeploy it.

Fixed. Sorry about that.

I think a preview option is needed. Seems some people might be making the change before the know what it would look like on their site and then have problems reverting back.