About Distracted Arena

I'm John ^^ Nice to meet you! ^^
In June 2010 graduated from high school and in September 2010 will become university student.

Able to speak and understand 5 languages:

• Latvian (native)
  
• English (fluent)
  
• Russian (fluent)
  
• German (advanced)
  
• Japanese (average)
  
• Chinese (beginner)
  

My web skills include:

• Designing
  
• X/HTML
  
• CSS
  
• PHP
  
• SQL
  
• Javascript (jQuery)

Have also been practicing martial arts for more than 6 years in total. Like cooking and photography, though need much to learn. In short that's all about myself. ^^

Couldn't find a content management system, that would satisfy my needs, that's why ended up developing one myself.

"DC" is simple to manage, as there are separate independent parts, which allows to make fast changes to the whole work-flow, they are:

• Template system - allows to change the look of the website editing dirrectly CSS and HTML
  
• Plug-in system - allows to add extra functionality without affecting the core
  
• Error/statistics system - logs all errors and missuses of the website, which helps to improve the functionality, statistics at the same time gather user experience info, which allows to improve user interface
  
• Content/user filtering - controls the content passed to the website, if there are found any problems, then the system stores it only temporary until it's approved or disapproved, The user filtering gives/takes user permissions. So basically this system takes lots of work from admins shoulders.
  
• Search system - allows to search the content without any 3rd party software, full control over content which is passed to the search results
  
• Image handling with ImageMagick - very efficient and with many great features
  
• Content is passed dynamically - DC uses jQuery library which allows to implement advanced Java Script and Ajax functionality in an easy way thus making content handling very fast
  
• Cache - currently being developed, this feature will allow to reduce bandwidth load and increase browsing speed
  
• Multilingual