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A few enhancement ideas

First off, let me say I love Squishdot. After debugging my Zope installation (on a Debian Linux box), I had a working Squishdot site in about an hour or so (the hard part was adding the graphics). I'm impressed!

Now that I've figured out the security settings for articles and replies (on Options, not Security... d'oh), I don't have any pressing concerns. If I actually get my site off the ground (i.e. find someone willing to host it... I can't afford a dedicated line and the university will be upset if I run a "real site" off their backbone), I'd like to enhance the Squishdot engine in the following ways:

• All them neat Slashdot features: moderation and logons would be helpful. Customizable squishboxes that can get contents from RDF files and stuff. Polls (unscientific). MS-HTML from Jon Katz. Ok, maybe not the last one. ;-)
• Some way to rate whole articles. Readers would moderate whole articles, and other readers who liked similar articles in the past would have that one recommended to them. (Kinda like BookMatcher at Amazon.)
• Optional use of CSS2 positioning instead of tables. I dunno if Zope has any real stylesheet support. Perhaps when Mozilla reaches world domination...

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