Good job. You've done what you wanted, and have a nice, clean page.
Only thing that I can see is that the dividing line that runs up the SLUG
logo needs to be fixed.
Also, all external links should be turned into top-load's. Never carry
your "customer" away from the website by keeping all external links as
top-loads and your site at the same page they left it. That way, they can
continue on your site even after they get done with the other site you sent
them too. (That way, they can continue to check out other distros you have
listed without having to hunt around for those links; remember that the
people who are most likly using those links are noobs, and won't be used to
looking more than a few clicks away...)
Again, nice job!!!
James
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul M Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 3:34 PM
Subject: [SLUG] SLUG Website Update
> 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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