Re: [Firebird-website] [Firebird-general] Re: Fb Website

[Pavel C. <pc...@ib...>]

Carlos H. Cantu napsal(a):
> 
> So, FirebirdSQL has news? Yes. Does it has articles (docs)? Yes, Does
> it has Download area? Yes. So, imho, this is enough to justify using a
> DB backend and dynamic pages.

Well, there are about ~20 news entries per *year* on our site. Doesn't
seems to me that it calls for a database. Articles are all static and
change rarely, except  Documentation that is in fact a single page that
points to thousands of *generated* pages. Can't see how database fits to
it either. Download is just few fancy pages that point to SourceForge
downloads. Anybody can go directly to SF download page for them.

> Also, DB backend makes it much easier to implement RSS feeds. Nowadays,
> this is one of the best ways to keep people updated, and a must for
> any decent site.

What RSS feeds? For news? There are few and all are immediately taken by
FirebirdNews and other sites (that have RSS feeds and much much more
news content). For downloads? Go to SourceForge and subscribe to File
releases RSS feed, it already exists. The same apply to news posted to SF.

In fact, we should use the SF RSS feeds for news and releases to feed
our own news and download pages, so we would entry the data only once.

best regards
Pavel Cisar