Re: [SLUG] SLUG Website Update

From: Ralph Harmon (rharmon@olesen-logistics.com)
Date: Wed Feb 21 2007 - 16:05:53 EST


The site is looking really nice Paul. It looks fine in
Firefox, but there's some table/css issues in IE.

Ralph Harmon

Paul M Foster wrote:
> 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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