Re: My first stab at the site

[Joakim Ziegler <joakim ximian com>]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:25:03PM -0600, Steve Fox wrote:
> On 15 Mar 2001 23:51:22 -0600, Joakim Ziegler wrote:
>> The forums look more Usenet/open discussion oriented, though. We'd like
>> something along the lines of Slashdot/Squishdot/etc., more like a news
>> posting site where people happen to be able to attach comments to the
>> postings. I didn't see anything along those lines on the SF site, but perhaps
>> I'm wrong.
 
> Take a look at http://foxhut.org:82/ . That's what I'm working on for my
> LUG. I think it's similar enough to Slashdot, no?

Actually, I couldn't contact that host at all.


>> The codebase seems very oriented towards services as opposed to content.
>> Which makes sense, since all SF is is the user contributed content. But this
>> focus doesn't fit the GNOME site very well, since we consist at least 60% of
>> static content, and the SF codebase isn't very focused on that (for instance,
>> the navigation of their About SourceForge sections and others are not very
>> nice at all).
 
> The codebase is extremely flexible. You can do as much static or dynamic
> content as you want. The nice thing is it doesn't force you into a
> framework...it's very hackable. You essentialy just steal the functions
> you need where you need them. 
 
>> There's no autogeneration of menus, no automatic navigation system, very
>> little in the way of smart formatting of content, etc. This stuff is
>> necessary to manage a heavy content site like the GNOME one.
 
> I'm not quite sure if I follow you here. All the menus on SourceForge
> are dynamically generated. 

But there's very little in the way of an automatically generated navigation
hierarchy for static content. For instance, their about section doesn't have
subnavigation at all, all links are in the actual text. The menus seem to
just be the main menu on all parts of the site.


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