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...)
Brennig
From Wales.
Site role: Contributor.
DanF
From London.
Site role: Contributor.
Dave
From Leeds.
Site role: Contributor.
Graeme
From Scotland.
Site role: Contributor, Feature specialist.
Helen
From London, UK.
Site role: Contributor.
HelenB
Site role: Contributor.
Jack
From Harrogate, Yorkshire.
Site role: Contributor.
Josh
Site role: Contributor.
Michael
From Aberdeen, Scotland.
Site role: Contributor.Paul
From Ayrshire, Scotland.
Site role: Contributor.
Rall
From Souf Londin.
Site role: Editor, contributor.
Simon
From Ayrshire, Scotland.
Site role: Contributor.
Vicki
From Loughborough, England.
Site role: 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.
Site info
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Web technologies used
PHP, MySQL, mod_rewrite, HTML, CSS, JavaScript (inc. AJAX). -
Hosted by Dreamhost
Served by and stored on brimstone, helped along by wagenknecht. Email handled by homiemail-sub0. -
CMS v1.6.2
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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