12 Apr
2004
12 Apr
'04
2:22 p.m.
On Monday 12 April 2004 15:58, Dave Phillips wrote:
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
Well, it would certainly help if the Linux soundapps pages didn't suck
so bad. It's all hand-edited HTML, no dynamic content, no user feedback
or other portals, no real assessments of the software, too little
information for the entries, et cetera ad nauseam.
I have lost count of the number of proposals I've received to upgrade
the sites to some more modern format. As Robin Whittle described it, the
pages are currently merely a monstrous "link farm", useful to some
extent, but hardly state-of-the-useful-art. I have less than zero time
to put into upgrading the site, and it is my hope that someday I'll be
able to turn the whole thing over to the community to turn it into
something more like what the community (myself included) would like to see.
Since i did some LAMP sites last year, i have some experience in creating a
dynamic site. Like with everybody else my time is limited, but trying to
bring "Sound & MIDI Software For Linux" into a dynamic form using PHP sounds
like a challenge ;-)
What i see: For now you just have categories, entries in this categories and a
text for each entry (obviously the link is necessary too).
Is this data available only in HTML? Or do you have some sort of CSV file or
SQL-Data? CSV or database would make the task easier, otherwise it would be
necessary to parse the HTML to get the initial data.
I would try to build the sites upon PHP, allowing to add, delete and modify
content via a webinterface. Webserver has to be run under linux using apache.
The data itself could be stored in a XML file or a SQL-Database. The latter
may introduce additional maintenance work and i'm not a DB guy.
As i said, i can't promise anything, but if you do not have other plans for
the site in your queue, i would give it a try.
PE
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