I need geek aid, stat!

[hope]

two things:

1) Are there any like, uber-skilled CSS-ers reading this who might be able to help me with some layout problems I'm having with a stylesheet? I've done pretty good so far, but there's just one thing that's completely stumping me. Also, I need help with IE compatibility with stylesheets - I have no idea where to start with hacks and whatnot.


2) Having to ask this question has given me a thought - Should I create a community along the lines of fandom_lawyers, called something like fandom_itgeeks or something? It would function in a similar way to fandom_lawyers. i.e. A place where you can ask questions of the IT experts (who are also fans!) watching the community about specific problems with IT you're having. Probably more web-IT than personal computer stuff.

Because, you know, I dig out and hang around a bunch of IT support boards when I have problems, but a lot of the times I really *don't* want to link to my website of gay porn and geekdom, yaknow?

So it would be a place for things like: I'm having trouble with positioning in my css stylesheet, or: does anyone know why this mediawiki extension isn't working for me? or: halp! I broke the php in my lj layout! So, a tech support resource for fandom webmasters.

So not necessarily the low-level stuff like "can someone make me an icon because I only have MS paint, lol!"

What do you reckon?

Comments

[msilverstar]

I'd go for a geek comm. I could help with search engine optimization and hiding, as appropriate. Not so much with CSS :-(

[hope]

Um, this may be way off track, but I'm having trouble getting a google coop search extension for mediawiki working. You wouldn't be able to give me some technical advice about that, would you? *hopeful*

[msilverstar]

Yep, I did the best article about that search service so far (will email the URL). The main problem is that it uses the websearch index, which updates on an irregular basis. If you want something more reliable, I can offer some suggestions!

[hope]

I am quite keen on the google coop - partly because it's for a work project based on mediawiki, and our main audience is utterly confounded by any search engine that doesn't function like google, sigh. I've put it on our main organisation website, but couldn't get the extension to work for mediawiki, despite following all the instructions, dammit!

If you have any ideas of how to tweak and play around with the existing mediawiki search, though, I'd welcome them.

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