On Thu, 20 May 2004, Dossy wrote: > 1) www.aolserver.com website revamp > > The project website deserves a more modern look and feel while > maintaining the crisp, clean design aspects of the site. The site > needs to clearly represent the most current releases and recent > changes. > > Specific information that should be easily accessible on the website > initially: > > - what it is > - how it's different > - where is useful, where it's not > - how to get started - basic guide, notes for apache users > - latest source and binary bundles > - basic intro docs and extensive, complete, accurate manpages > > One role needs to be filled here: Webmaster. The project needs two > Webmasters to ensure good responsiveness to keeping the site current > in a timely fashion.
My congratulations! Some comments here: When I tell people about AOLserver, they usually respond very sceptical. Over time I have thought a little about why and I think the following reasons might contribute to that: - It's not L.A.M.P. People are sceptical to changes of the way of doing things and often act like sheep. - Alltough baseless, the name AOL is not really associated by people with open-source. Actually I think AOL has done great contributions with Mozilla and AOLserver, but people associate the name AOL more quickly with $$$$ than with freedom. - Perhaps ridiculous, but it happened several times that I had to explain to some people that AOLserver was open-source. They had made some quick conclusion from the .com address. Clearly AOLservers biggest competitor is PHP. Were the current website falls short is to explain why people need to choose AOLserver over Apache/PHP. I.e.: - AOLserver is many, many times faster. - Much better API. - No trouble with thousands of, incompatible, stupid, database abstaction layers. Currently the website states that "AOLserver is the backbone of the largest, busiest production environment in the world". These are first words you tell to your visitors. Perhaps something like "AOLserver is an exceptionally powerfull webserver for dynamic websites. It features a powerfull web programming API and is hailed as the fastest webserver in the world." would be better promotion? Technically: I think it is a huge mistake to host www.aolserver.com on Apache. www.aolserver.com should be a demonstration of the power of AOLserver. The pages should load instant an fast to demonstrate the performance. Community: The OpenACS forums that the AOLserver website once had were great and I think their disappearance was a great loss to the community. I am in favour of a return of OpenACS. Just my 2 cents.... Greetings, Daniël Mantione -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
