h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Are there any plans to include the States in SOP? I'm American, so I'd like to know...

--SmartGamer

As soon as they start paying a license fee, according to an earlier post...

You've not read the backlog, then, I take it...

Unfortunately not, though...

Lucinda, that's *the* licence fee, as in the people who fund the BBC are the licence fee payers.

*looks far far off into the remote and unlikelier future*

The bbc has a worldwide presence - world famous for it in in fact - will there one day be a BBCi office someplace over the pond, with a DNA office in the basement, recieving and surviving on membership subscriptions from americans all happy to be part of SOP-UnitedSA, in much the same way that many public domain radio stations survive today?

_Maybe_ one day americas time will come.

*gets back to matter in hand*

Is there a way to refer to all the sense of place skins collectively within GuideML, or do you have to refer to them seperately? (I have a skin toggle at the top of U191190 and would like to have the sense- of-place skin available aswell - if I want sense of place users to visit, look at the page in the 360 skin, then nip back to sense of place, do I have to do a link for each sense of place site? )

They are all separate sites, so you can't (for example) use skin=something to change skin within SOP because each site has a single skin. You have to change the site name in the URL.

Understand that there is a hierarchy to the skin thing: DNA is divided into sites, each site has its own skin(s). You can see this in the url:

/dna/site/[skin/] (the []'s mean optional)

Just to illustrate the point (with in example discovered in this thread, I think):
Since the SOP sites are each technically separarate sites (different names after '/dna/'), each one technically has its own skin, even though they're duplicates. Practically it doesn't matter, but because skins are bound to sites each one needs its own copy.

Sorry, that's *an* example. And I didn't sign it either. Sheesh!

-Spike A.

I can't wait to see if it goes ahead to build more of them.. Liverpool must be high on the list - All that stuff to cramm in about Mersey Culture!

got to make the first three a success first

There's forming and training editorial teams that has to happen first. You can't just launch a site without an editorial presence. We tried that and regretted it.

you regretted the way H2G2 was launched?
When you see what a success its become

If only my mistakes turned out that well

Some of the best acheivements in life are mistakes. Just look at Rap music; I hate it myself, but no doubt it's a success