Re: [Fwd: Re: Time to code?]

[Joakim Ziegler <joakim ximian com>]

On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 10:53:25AM +0100, Christian Schaller wrote:
> On 19 Jan 2001 19:42:35 -0600, Steve Fox wrote:
>> This was probably supposed to go to the list as well. I agree the the 
>> front page should static. Whatever we do with Gnotices (I believe people 
>> wanted to move off of Zope)
 
> Since I am probably the heaviest user of Gnotices/Zope I would just like
> to say that from my point of view it works great. Yet, if getting
> Squishdot to run stable is to much work I see why you want it
> replaced. I only hope that when designing a new system that you make it
> as easy to administer and use.

It's not so much a matter of making Squishdot be stable, but a desire for all
the GNOME sites to use the same templates, scripting language, and so on.


> The request for simplicity goes to the site setup as a whole in fact.
> The way pages are designed should be made very intuitive, I spent more
> time figuring out how WML works than I actually did updating the
> Mailinglist page.  I am currently updating the GNOME Office pages which
> just uses a simple system of serverside includes to generate the pages,
> it took me two minutes to understand how that worked. (CVS module gw-web
> -> my work-in-progress: http://www.linuxrising.com/gnomeoffice/)

I agree. I suggest using PHP as an "advanced SSI", calling functions instead
of doing includes. This way, it's easy to automate generation of menus, etc.,
using $SCRIPTNAME and the like, without the person adding pages needing to
know anything about it.

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