For anyone interested in becoming a webmaster, here are some notes:
- Since August 1 2004, we've used the SourceForge News system as a way to post news to the FreeDOS web site. There's some code on the www.freedos.org front page that updates the news automatically once an hour, so no one needs to edit any html pages just to post news. Obviously, only people with the "Editor" flag for "Project News" (on SF) will be able to post news. Per my other email, that's me, Aitor, Eric, Rugxulo. - Most of the web site uses PHP "include" statements to import links, headers, etc. I do this because I hate editing a dozen files just to change one thing. - Almost all of the FreeDOS content lives under /freedos - this is historical, dating back to when we used to have lots of web sites mirroring our content to lessen our bandwidth, and it didn't seem fair to spray our web files across someone else's doc root. - We make extensive use of stylesheets everywhere on the web site. If you aren't familiar with stylesheets: this allows us to update the look and feel of the web site by editing a single file. Stylesheets can be easy or complex ... but since I'm not a professional web designer, my stylesheets are pretty simple. - Pretty much all pages under /freedos use the blue-and-orange bar design. Most other pages use a "bare" design. (Again, this is historical - it got to be a pain to edit all those html pages whenever I updated the web site design, so those "bare" pages use simple html and stylesheet.) - Something you don't know: if a web site has the blue-and-orange bar design, there's some nifty code in there to detect your web browser, and dynamically send you a different stylesheet if you are running a "mobile" browser. The same code also detects if you've given it a stylesheet, and gives you that instead. Try this URL to check it out the "mobile" stylesheet: http://www.freedos.org/?css=/freedos/css/mobile.css I'll send some notes about the blue-and-orange design in another note. -jh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
