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

[Milan B. <mi...@pa...>]

Pavel Cisar wrote:
> 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.

FWIW, I agree with Pavel. There are many ways that database can get 
broken and then the website is either down, or throws error messages 
which leaves a very ugly and unprofessional impression to visitors.


-- 
Milan Babuskov

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