What it's all about
The site
Rawkstar.net is for almost anything music related; reviews of new releases, demos, live gigs, news etc, with a team of people from around the UK and beyond contributing to the site. There is also a forum for you to discuss what's going on and to give us your views on the content of the site.
The team
Below is the current rawkstar.net team.
Andreas
From Oslo, Norway.
Site role: Editor, contributor.
Ben
From New Zealand.
Site role: Contributor, podcaster, NZ representative.
Bob
From London, UK.
Site role: Web monkey, site administrator, contributor (when he's not tinkering in PHP/HTML/CSS...)
Dave
From Leeds.
Site role: Contributor.
Helen
From London, UK.
Site role: Contributor.
HelenB
Site role: Contributor.
Rall
From Souf Londin.
Site role: Editor, contributor.
Note: 'Roles' were made up on the spot by Bob and don't really mean anything... (Don't tell Ben, he's quite proud of the NZ Rep. role...!)
Past team members
Below is a list of team members who decided to move on from rawkstar, their reviews etc. will stay at rawkstar.
Beth, Brennig, Dan, DanF, Graeme, Jack, Josh, Michael, Paul, Simon and Vicki.
Site info
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Web technologies used
PHP, MySQL, mod_rewrite, HTML, CSS, JavaScript (inc. AJAX). -
Hosted by Dreamhost
Served by brimstone, helped along by venus:avendano and stored on brimstone. Email handled by homiemail-sub5. -
CMS v1.5.3
Coded by Bob extended using the following scripts, programs and libraries:-
Wordpress - for the Blog
Prototype/Script.aculo.us - for Mini reviews (AJAX & effects)
Akismet - to fight against comment spam (using Akismet PHP5 Class)Made on a Mac using Textmate and Photoshop. Uploaded using Transmit.
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