I have added one more instance of the ArticleMS script to my collection. I established the Sound Articles section on the Mixing Live Sound site. So far there is a link in the top nav bar to get to that area of the site. I will add an RSS feed of the article summaries to the homepage of the MLS site soon.

I found a few articles that are in the ballpark and posted them to the site. I intend to move some of the existing reprinted articles from the main section of the site to the new directory section. I have a list of topics for more articles for the main site and for blog posts to the Live Sound Mixing Tips blog associated with the site. I may add a forum to the domain as a fourth major section, as well.

I rearranged some of the elements from the defaults and like the resulting presentation better. I moved the search box up into the header section and the quick nav down to the nav bar to the left. I put the welcome xxx that was on the left over to the right end of the bar. I had added a couple of links and the header was looking crowded, plus this format maintains the look and feel of the various sections of the site better.

There is a bit of work to set up one of these scripts. I have not found a way to make the modifications once. It appears that much of this is built on the spot by the installer script. Most of this resides in the database. I have not been able to find files that correspond to much of what I do to upgrade the sites in the script directory that I downloaded. Perhaps a better understanding of php would help there. Unless the script pulls files from the ArticleMS server at the time of installation the data should be in there somewhere, but knowing where to look is the problem.

I have used php extensively in the form of includes and scripts, but I really know nothing about php coding. This script is teaching me a few new things as far as using php, but I am still mostly in the dark. I may have to break down and learn a bit more.

Check out the new installation at Sound Articles and tell me what you think.