Re: [Alephmodular-devel] Web site

[Br'fin <br...@ma...>]

On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 03:30  AM, Matt Lee wrote:

>> Well, I tried to sign you up as a developer. I'm still waiting for  
>> Sourceforge to tell me it failed or succeeded, so I'm not sure what's  
>> up with that.
>
> It seems like maybe it failed? I am new to SF, but I just logged in  
> again today and it says I have no active projects.

I was getting errors on SourceForge when I tried. I open a support  
letter, no response on it yet.

>> I think for the first take we could put everything in a sub directory  
>> so you can look at it while you work on it. And once a first draft is  
>> ready we can see about getting it into CVS and then put up as the  
>> front page.
>
> That sounds like a good plan. But how it is integrated into CVS  
> depends on what type of site gets implemented.
>
> Should we have a blog on the front page that people can post to with  
> status updates (similar to source.bungie.org, I guess, except it'd  
> allow posting by any developer rather than just Jesse), or a simple  
> static HTML page that we update manually?
>
> The former is more flexible, but also more complicated. I'm working  
> with Movable Type (a blog package) on another Web site right now.  
> Perhaps, if we were to use that, we could simply check in the HTML and  
> CSS templates used within MT.
>
> Opinions welcome. I can do either. A Movable Type installation  
> (assuming it's possible on sourceforge) is a little more painful  
> initially, but very elegant once done. A static HTML page I can throw  
> up in a night, but it's a nearly equivalent amount of work each time  
> it gets updated.

*Laugh* Don't know how much we need to put on the site. I've not really  
had any sort of clear picture of it. Have you thought about what you  
want the site to emphasize or organize? Basic news elements, for  
instance, can be put on the Sourceforge summary page.

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