EyeStorm Studio

Standards and Browser Aware Web Development

Standards and Browser Aware Web Development

Eyestorm is the online studio of David Wranovics, freelance web developer, owner and operator of the forum skin retail stores, ForumMonkeys and vBmode, founder of the original, now umbrella parent company, NetAtom COM. David supplements his larger projects with development partners he has met over the decade he has spent in web development.


Archive for June, 2007

The Anatomy of the vBulletin Animal

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Part One

The Forumhome (a.k.a homepage, a.k.a index page)

Even despite years of study in its natural habitat, even though we have picked apart its scat and know what it eats (mysql queries), the vBulletin Animal nevertheless easily irritates newcomers with its ponderous template hierarchy. Over the next few weeks, I am going to try and manifest what I have learned after years of taming and grooming, and do it in color, so we all can at least get a fundamental understanding of  vBulletin modification. (more…)

EyeStorm Blog Online

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

EyeStorm was running on Joomla, a decent Content Management System, but after a while it just seemed constrictive and, well, overkill. Besides some light blogging, the vast majority of our content is static and easily updated and a CMS was just too much bloat.

To that end, the static content has been separated from the blog. Although there’s some code cleanup and some aesthetics to put down later, everything is presentable enough now to open the doors to the public. We hope to be showcasing content in the near future that is appealing to not just our clients or prospective clients, but the web savvy as well.