Hi all (currently 12 members)!
It seems that all IBDI & Firebird members who are interested in
Firebird web site are here, so we can start the show :)
Here you are some facts and basic ideas about the Firebird web
site:
1) Our web site should be a comprehensive source of persistent or
semi-persistent information's about all corners and aspects of
Firebird project.
2) The viewing audience will vary at great scale (curious visitors,
plain users, developers who develop with FB and FB developers).
It's clear that each audience would need different informations (or at
least with different level of completeness and complexity).
3) Each audience should easy find its way to their area of interest.
Thus idea of portal-like site with levelled down sections obviously
come to mind. We can also split it to more independent sites (at
least to two for newcomers and users&developers as was proposed
by Markus). I prefer the first solution, despite that a lot of work
would be needed to twist phpNuke. Well, if we'll grow to the scale
of KDE project, we should split it to sub-domain sites, but I think
that (1) we're not there (2) when time will come, we would move to
different host.
4) Site maintenance has two areas: site design&development and
content management. I think that they can (and should) be easily
separated to different people (or groups). I also agree with Markus
that site maintenance should be a distributed task. I would be
pleased, if content creation and edition would be easy, would not
require special tools or knowledge and could be managed by
anyone from anywhere. Of course, that would require some kind of
content management system, but once this system would be
created, the actual amount of work needed for site maintenance
would be greatly decreased (not mention the lower entry barrier for
web content providers). Hence I'd like suggest the creation of two
working groups inside web team: CMS development&maintenance
group and editorial group.
5) Automation gimmicks and other features of dynamic site should
be also considered. I think that we could utilize at least some, like
polls, automatically generated statistics etc. We already have
some at SourceForge and it would be nice if we would be able to
integrate them into our site.
Well, I think that it's enough for start, as I don't like burden you with
too many ideas at once. I'd like also start with basic concepts and
then roll down with details.
Best regards
-- Pavel
Firebird - The most addictive database
http://firebird.sourceforge.net
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