Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Our homepage was updated? (Complementing)

[Hudson R. <hud...@so...>]

Hi Peter,

> Yes I have to admit to making a couple of minor
> changes, I was thinking of also spliting the download
> pages up into sub pages one for each platform that we
> support , I dont know what your thoughts are on this ?

I don't think it is a good idea, for experience. Look the Brazilian TinyCOBOL homepage in http://br.tinycobol.org to more details.
The TinyCOBOL Brazilian homepage are divided in directories, according the following criterions:

- Desc        -> Project Description    
- Docs        -> Project documentation
- Ferramentas -> Project tools
- Imagens     -> Project images (I need to learn gimp to increase the                                       TinyCOBOL brazilian logo)
- Links       -> Links. 
- ml          -> Project mailing lists
- snapshots   -> Project snapshots
- status      -> Project status 

Using each directory to each subject, I think that makes the homepage more easy to user access, however is more difficult to give maintainance on this way because is necessary a couple of changes in several pages to modify one page, for example. 
Then I thought in using cgi programs to get easier the maintanence, but it makes the homepage slow. The best way I found is using a wpp(1) to preprocess my html files and use cgi programs to create some programs(such as engine search, a admin interface and other things). 
Rildo suggested me to create a wpp(1) in COBOL to put in our samples directory and I think it is a good idea, but I don't have time now to create it..

The Official TinyCOBOL homepage was written on a easy way to give manteinance by David Essex, then I think that you shouldn't modify this pages. Even so, if you want to modify the homepage, we could think a way to modify the TinyCOBOL official homepage on a way to make it keeping easy to give maintainance. You have any idea?

Thanks
Hudson