On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 05:02:00PM -0000, nestorwheelock wrote: > I'll help. Dan and I work together (idotmind.com). > > > --- In [email protected], "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello Sean, > > I recently spoke with Theresa, and she said that you maintain the > > ByteWorks website, and were looking for someone else to take over. I > > am willing to help in this area. Please let me know how I can go > > about doing this. > > > > Thanks, > > Dan
Hello Dan and Nestor, Thank you for your interest. I don't imagine this to be an immediate switch over, by the way. There are a few things I think we should discuss first and it would be great if others on the list could chime in, if possible. First, except for some organizing, I don't think we should really do anything with the current website. For what it is, it's fine as it is. Some stuff can be re-arranged, but I don't think any significant time should be spent on it. In fact, I'll keep responsibility for it. Like the wiki, I'd really like the website to be Web 2.0 and thus others, not just myself, would have the ability to add and modify content. One of the things we've discussed is moving the site over to a content management system (CMS), such as Joomla! (www.joomla.org) or Drupal (http://drupal.org/). I'd really like your ideas on this and to know whether you would be interested in developing that kind of project. If you're interested, the next step would involve developing the CMS. There's a test machine at the shop called bworks.dyndns.org and this would be a good place to do the development (because you can view it online at http://bworks.dyndns.org). If you're interested, we could set you both up with an account on that machine so you can begin. Time is not of the essence here. You can go as fast or as slow as you want. I'd like to be a part of the process, just so I can learn a thing or two, but I don't want to head this project. Also, whatever is done should be documented, so others can step in if need be. Lastly, I am by no means the boss of anything, but I think it's incredibly important we stick to certain guidelines, especially in regards to accessibility and usability. The XHTML and CSS should validate. Tables should be used at a minimum, if at all. There shouldn't be any Flash and pages should have small footprints so they'll load quickly on slow connections .... to name a few. Let me know if this sounds good. It would be great to have a discussion about it. Thanks, Sean -- Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:15:33 -0500
