Redesigned this Website with Extended Functionality

Tools-Frameworks

• MODx CMF (Content Management Framework: Flexible API and event model that allows overriding how the core behaves without hacking core code)
• MooTools javascript framework, Scriptaculous Web2 javascript libraries, Prototype javascript framework
• MySQL, PHP, XHMTL, AJAX

Some Features

• Dropmenu navigation
• AJAX live search popdown in the current page
• Breadcrumbs showing path to document (except home, as it's unnecessary)
• Social extensions, i.e., login/registration in order to comment/post/participate
• Taxonomy
• News/recent actions tracking and summary auto-population to specific sections
• Archiving of blogs
• Greybox implementation of Lightbox photo gallery display system

Forthcoming

• Shoutbox

Bugs

• Fixed Dropmenu (z-index) Bug: Initially, the dropdowns were a little unstable, however, by trial and error, discovered that the fix was to assign the dropdowns a high z-index and to remove z-indexes from any content elements that the dropdowns popped over, i.e., any underlapping content elements could not have z-indexes (even if much lesser values).
• IEMac Dropmenu Failure: IEMac cannot hack the dropmenu AJAX, so nothing happens on hover - One can only click a category link and be taken to an index page for that category.
• Live Search Dropdown (z-index) Bug: Well, after fixing the dropmenu bug, a bug with the Live Search dropdown reared its curious head (dropped down in back of the dropmenu elements), with again, a z-index solution whereby the Live Search elements had a greater z-index value than the dropmenu.
• IEMac Greybox Failure: The Greybox display (a closeable dynamic image/page display/gallery that floats over the current webpage) doesn't work at all in IEMac (it can't hack the the hyper javascript). Clicking a thumbnail takes one to the webpage for the larger image that the thumbnail references (and not in a new window either, but in the parent window, so one has to click the back button to return to the gallery webpage).
• Otherwise: Everything works and looks as it should in various WinIE, Firefox, Safari. Not checked with Opera, Camino, etc, but should work with standards-compliant browsers.