Re: [Slashcode-general] Discussion Forum

[Joyce H. <ha...@AM...>]

I apologize for the ambiguity. The 3rd option:

----- Original Message ----- You *might* have meant that you wanted each
professor to have a particular section
where articles relevant to them could be stored. Or possibly topic instead
of section.
To see how this might work you can visit my www.DiverseBooks.com site - just
where
you see a book genre think "Professor" and where you see a section think
"type of article
about or by that professor".

Was the closest to what I am preposing. Thanks for your reply.

From: "Alex McLintock" <al...@ya...>
To: "Joyce Harris" <ha...@am...>;
<sla...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 4:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Slashcode-general] Discussion Forum


> --- Joyce Harris <ha...@AM...> wrote:
> > I have installed Slash to use as a discussion forum for professors at
UT. What is the best way
> > to give each of them their own space(site)?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Joyce
>
> To re-iterate, you haven't really told us what you want so it is very
difficult to help you.
>
> If all you want is to offer professors the ability to upload their own
websites then
> you could ignore slash and provide them with their own bit of disk space
eg
> "public_html" directories within their home directories. Any good book on
apache will
> tell you how to configure that (eg Wrox's book on Apache by Pete
Wainwright).
>
> If you mean that professors will be posting new articles then just set
them
> up as authors. Users can see the articles by a particular author if they
like.
> This sounds like the best strategy.
>
> You *might* have meant that you wanted each professor to have a particular
section
> where articles relevant to them could be stored. Or possibly topic instead
of section.
> To see how this might work you can visit my www.DiverseBooks.com site -
just where
> you see a book genre think "Professor" and where you see a section think
"type of article
> about or by that professor".
>
> Of course you might be after a complicated portal site which is beyond
slash's current
> ability without plugins being written.
>
> Why not throw together a non-dynamic mockup of what you want in html or
even photoshop
> if you prefer). It will help you discuss and explain what you are thinking
of.
>
>
> Goodluck.
>
> Alex
>
>
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