I’ve been working diligently upon the Rollator system – It’s now fairly DB-independent (although I’ve only written the logic for MySQL and PostgreSQL), it supports ‘QuickURL’ blogging, and, of course, user comments are now available for each entry, albiet not on the front page (This is by design).

I’ve been looking at smarty for an alternative to my static layout – and it looks like it might be rather useful – providing customizable templates for an end-user to mod to their needs without beign frightened by the code, or worse, accidently doing bad things with it.

The biggest problem with this is that Rollator is currently an ‘all-in-one’ system – Absolutely every aspect has been rolled into one little program. Initally chosen by design, but it’s become hindered by this. An ‘all-in-one’ solution is great for a screwdriver with replaceable tips, but not a CMS.

I’m most likely going to start breaking bits of Rollator apart into digestable chunks – db here, musical stuff there, QuickURL elsewhere, and look into using ‘smarty’ type templates for my layout – thus making it easier for an end user to modify the design as well!