A long time ago, in a country far, far away,

A lone decoder built an interstellar site for his wife with joomla. The automated imperial deathstar “turkish hacker” destroyed the site because of a security flaw in the sites 3rd party module defences.

The badly brused decoder, managed to regroup and muster the mighty power of ExpressionEngine and fight back!

behold, huuusssah! (a work in progress) - glutenfreeliving.co.nz

Hi Iain,

A very nice site, well done. It’s a shame when you get those idiots that seem to think it is funny hacking a site. I had the exact same thing happen on my wife’s and my site. It is unfortunately coded in one of the very old off-shoots of PostNuke so we are definitely looking at moving it across to EE as soon as we can but I know what you must have been through with the idiots that find it funny doing what they do do!

For a site in progress it looks really really nice. Great design and nice color scheme. Well done.

Keep up the excellent work. I’m sure your wife is very proud.

Best wishes,

Mark

yeah, its that moment you dread when you get an email from Joe Public saying “I think you better have a look at your site!”

panic, anger, cursing, delete, delete, delete! luckily it wasn’t a paying client and the lesson was learnt. (touches wood)...

We had it even worse than that though. The little reprobate who actually hacked the site e-mailed us to tell us!! The bloomin’ cheek!

If I had the knowledge of how to hack his server I would do just to annoy him but alas I don’t have that kind of sadistic knowledge. Nope all I can do is find out where he lives and crack his knee-caps. Oh well!!

Great site though. Really nicely thought out.

Best wishes,

Mark

Thanks for the feedback Mark, much appreciated.

‘night!

Erm goodnight!

I’m sure when you awaken there should be more posts to this congratulating you on such a nice looking site.

Best wishes,

Mark

Very nice.

Did you do the illustration of the lady at the computer yourself?

This site is reminscent of the one Jamie P. was getting started on back on December 1.
I really wished I had archived even those comments, there was some good tips on moving in to the control panel for example.

Your site rocks, the user features look to be all there, surprised there no forums, seems to me it’s just the type of community that might catch on, this from a non-diet-er
Great great job!

thanks everyone,

@adamwiggall: i wish… It comes from an awesome illustrator called chihhang that’s got loads of work on istock, have a look.

@tzMedia: yeah the forum has crossed my mind, the site is getting busier all the time, but don’t want to have empty forums on there. (puts me off when i see one)... Will just wait for a while longer and see if i have the time too!

Nice looking site. I see you’re using the rating module?

How do you like that? This is the first site I’ve seen that is using it. Any chance you could create a test page and allow guests to make ratings on that test page… I’m just curious as to how the rating module looks/works in live fashion.

Its only a really quick implementation of the rating module, no ajax/trickery involved for the time being. For now its simply a select input and submit.

I plan to jazz it a little, pretty much in what you’re doing with nicestylesheet.com. I haven’t even outputted ‘top rated’ entries etc yet as the feature is so new on the site.

I’ve also implemented the favorites module too, it rocks. Really easy to set up and users really like it. Go solspace…

I’m still toying around with stuff and trying to keep up with the site’s growth, its nice to have a playground and learn EE when you are in charge, makes a change from putting forward proposals to clients

So how was the ratings module on implementation? Very difficult or pretty much like any other module, maybe a few bumps in the road at first but pretty easy once you get the hang of it?

For the favorites module, it looks pretty neat too! Are you able to allow non-members to “favorite” a weblog entry? Or is it only those signed up for the site?

Gluten free EE?  Sign me up. 

That’s a great looking site.  I’m definitely bookmarking it for recipes.  Flour free dinners can be limiting at times.

@deronsizemore: Both tools are members only I’m afraid… can’t imagine how favourites could work for guests. My php skills are minimal.

Ratings took 10 minutes to implement. very straight forward and well documented with examples etc. Only issue I’ve found is that if i allow guests to rate, the allow_duplicate parameter seems to be inefective… Might be me tho’, as I’ve said i haven’t had time to do much with it yet.

Thanks again everyone for the feedback.

Wow that is an awesome site!

I particularly like the clearly set out search results.

Now, where can I pick up that jQuery drawer effect?

Ask and you shall receive!

Learning jquery

Haha I just realised that I bought the Learning jQuery book… What a slack bugger I am!

Don’t you hate it when business gets in the way of personal development?

PS. I will send the link to my sister who has to eat gluten free.

Are all your entries a single text area? For example the business listings have address details in the body. I wondered if you set up custom fields for them?

no, that’s the main reason I use EE. Giving publishers an empty canvas to publish content is like giving a small child a permanent marker. We all know what happens there…

That field is just an auto br textarea… I should change the < strong > to a h3 for ‘Address’ I suppose..