[SGVLUG] Call for webmasters

[Manuel Fernandes]

Thanks for moving that UUASC posting. I was not sure how to get it moved...

Manny

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Emerson, Tom" <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com>
To: "SGVLUG Discussion List." <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 12:24 PM
Subject: RE: [SGVLUG] Call for webmasters


> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of Claude Felizardo
> On 6/30/05, Dustin <laurence at alice.caltech.edu> wrote:
> > a SGVLUG test site anyway: http://sgvlug.laurences.net.  I
> > Check it out, especially the web team.
> >
> cool.   i've played with mambo and liked it and was thinking of
> hosting a mambo test site for sgvlug but [...]

After messing around for a while, I think I got a reasonably good start. 
This does do what I was expecting -- we can add "articles" that correspond 
to upcoming meetings (and the cool part is that we can write them "now", but 
delay their appearance until just-after the previous meeting, and the system 
takes care of it rather than having someone physically remember to "publish" 
the item)  Some things don't work quite as expected (ordering of lists, 
mainly, as well as exactly what "content" appears in a given area) but I 
suspect that is mostly a learning-curve item anyway.

I've put the next couple of meetings in as items.  Jana's presentation on 
Ubuntu appears "now", and Orv's will appear next week (actually, a couple of 
days before the next actual meeting, sort of as a really-advanced teaser) 
I've also created an "around town" area to advertise OTHER lug's and their 
meetings (which is why the UUASC-LA item was moved away from the "front 
page" -- sure, it IS front-page type news, but for UUASC, not SGVLUG...)

There is some concern about the "banner" that appears -- this can be used 
for good or evil it appears -- for instance, we could create a banner 
"graphic" that is appropriate for each section and/or group, and then make 
that the only "banner" that gets selected for the section (at least, I think 
that is possible)  i.e., we could create a "devsig" banner that appears when 
listing devsig meeting announcements, a uuasc-la banner for their group, and 
so on.  Of course, this takes someone with "talent" ;) to actually create 
nice looking banners.

I presume we have control over the actual layout of the "site", but that 
appears to be at a somewhat lower level than what we can do as an admin --  
at least, I didn't see anything obvious on how to move things like the 
banner to a different place, or how to change the main graphic, etc.  OTOH, 
having a "standard" layout makes it easy for people browsing to know "where 
to look" to do certain things (though I gotta admit it took me a bit of time 
to find the "login/register" form at first -- it's on the left side towards 
the bottom, which may be relatively standard, but to be honest I've pretty 
much avoided any "register to view..." type sites anyway;  to that end, it 
looks like we can mark most or all of the content "public", and visitors 
would not have to "register" at all (so we could even do away with the 
logon, and simply have an admin logon that is entirely separate from the 
site)