Monthly Archives: August, 2009
Opinion: What’s a Grid?
[Editors note: This was posted on the main OSgrid Website by resident Marcus Llewllyn, however I feel it is a good overview on why OSgrid isn't Second Life® (and for the most part, wont ever be). It is reprinted here with permission.]
I was perusing the wire on the OSgrid site tonight, and a number of [...]
Custom Achievements
You can now suggest and use custom achievements within your builds or events; which will be included in the main OSgrid Achievements system we launched several weeks ago. Since we are expecting a lot of users to try and abuse this system; there are a number of rules associated with it – and each achievement [...]
Shiny New Website, Part Deux.
The OSgrid website overhaul is getting a little further; I’m now happy enough with the Wordpress layout to push this live (although some tweaking with comment layouts is going to be required); there are a number of important changes that are being made – outside of the new layout that is.
The first is that logins [...]
Anatomy of a New Website Layout
If you are reading this, you have probably spotted the new front page to OSGrid.org – it’s part of a new template we’re going to be deploying across all elements of the site, including the forums, news and elgg sections.
The design of this site is actually part commercial template, part pain-staking customisation and CSS work. [...]