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Re: [PLUG] PLUG Website Maintenence
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I agree that 2 separate sites adds maintenence, so I started researching the
possibility of something that could handle both. If anyone has more
suggestions, feel free to chime in. I'm sure some of you lynx users run into
these issues all of the time ;)
What a CMS would buy us is not having to worry about HTML at all. It would
also allow us to expand the site. For example, I think having a section
dealing with the talks would be nice. People could get a synopsis of the
talk, along with any downloads. We could also partition responsibility for
multiple areas of the site to various volunteers.
I also think that having the site be a little more interactive would help
raise more interest in the group. I think it would help connect more of us
lonely linux users around here :)
I do like the fact that the existing site looks good in lynx. I still want
that, because it could help us get to the stage where people can download
the site info to their PDA's (the techno-dweeb in me is peeking out).
Iman Mayes
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Abrahamson" <jeff@purple.com>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 7:12 AM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] PLUG Website Maintenence
> It adds to maintenance time, though, to maintain two separate
> versions. And unless content and presentation are really totally
> separated (e.g., a text-formatting and a graphic-formatting script,
> both of which take their content from a database), one risks
> accidentally having one page updated and the other version not.
>
> I don't mean to whine, nothing there that we can't do. But it's more
> work. Is it worth it? The text-only calendars and such we've been
> using have been working quite well, imho.
>
> -Jeff
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:19:48PM -0400, Iman Mayes wrote:
> > I sort of agree...mostly. I think that an alternative, text only version
is
> > a good option, however I feel that we should not limit ourselves to just
> > that. I've seen some tools (calendars, upload/download areas, search,
etc.)
> > that would be very useful to the group. On that note, you bring up a
very
> > good point about "general points". Maybe we should come up with a
guideline
> > for the site(s). What you have in your email is a good starting point.
> >
> > Iman Mayes
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "multiple seriousity" <msimons@slackware.com>
> > To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 11:35 AM
> > Subject: RE: [PLUG] PLUG Website Maintenence
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Whatever happens.. I think we need to put down a few general points..
> > >
> > > 1) links will not be broken. all old pages will remain in place, and
even
> > > if replicated on the new site, links should remain between the two
> > versions
> > > to lead one to the other.
> > >
> > > 2) the site needs to look good in lynx and those-other-text-browsers
> > >
> > > 3) the site needs to be accessible
> > >
> > > 4) well, I shouldn't need to say here the site should be tested in
most
> > > major browsers, considering the topic of this list, what I am really
> > > referring to is what we mostly use, so it shouldn't be an issue.
> > >
> > > 5) valid html, xhtml, xml, or whatever the heck it is in should be
valid
> > > and proper.
> > >
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