[SLUG] SLUG Website Update

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Wed Feb 21 2007 - 15:34:42 EST


Folks:

FWIW, I just spent several days going through an evolution to redo the
SLUG website. For years, I used m4ph, make, and a variety of tools to
merge raw content with headers and footers to make webpages for the
site. Pretty clunky, and the look was kinda cheesy. But the maintenance
was cheap and I didn't want to bother with it.

However, after spending almost a year writing internal applications for
my business in PHP, I decided to update the SLUG site and change the way
the pages were generated. And I looked around for some CSS that looked
clean and decent to hang it on.

In any case, if you go to the site, you'll immediately see the
difference. If you happen to see the old pages, clear the cache on your
browser. I removed the index.html, so you now *must* go to the new
index.php page unless your cache has the index.html in it.

Also *NOTE* that the meeting calendar is *NOT* on the main page anymore.
There is a link to it on the home page and on the meetings page. This
new calendar looks more like real calendar. The individual meetings are
linked to the meetings page, so you can get more info on location,
times. This new calendar is driven by a program called "remind" that I
run locally to generate the data file that drives the actual PHP page.

Any comments are welcome; compliments will get you a new Porsche (crap!
did I say that out loud?), and anything else gets you booted out of my
fan club (you'd be really upset, right?). ;-}

Paul

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