Hi John, Is there an easy way in Drupal to archive a site (turn the current site into guadec.org/archive/2006 or something and start anew)?
Cheers, Dave. John Hwang wrote: > I will go ahead and start cleaning up the mess I created. > > I will also start creating/organizing the space for GUADEC 2007. > > John Hwang > > On 9/7/06, Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> El dj 07 de 09 del 2006 a les 12:18 +0100, en/na Thomas Wood va >> escriure: >> >>> Speaking of which, I'm not sure which list to bring this up on, but >>> something really does need to be done about the speed of guadec.org. >> Until now guadec.org has been discussed here. >> >>> could anyone who helped set up the website shed some light on this? >> guadec.org needs optimization in many senses, definitely. A better >> management of CSS files would diminish dramatically these statistics. >> For instance, the heaviest object detected by the report is a CSS image >> that in fact doesn't show up in the homepage: >> http://guadec.org/themes/guadec/images/location_bg.png . Apparently this >> image is being pre-loaded in all the guadec.org pages, even if it's not >> used in any (?). There are lots of other minor objects that appear on >> the report but are not visible in the page, nor appear in the HTML code. >> >> However, note that the 3 header images have 86966 in total + 115785 from >> sponsors/partner logos + 4036 (only) of pure HTML = 206787, which is >> already a non-light page. >> >> The Vilanova team build that website from almost nothing, with lots of >> improvisation and rush but also thinking of building something that >> could be evolved and updated continuously. tavon, Behnam and myself were >> the ones tweaking regularly the CMS, with poor coordination since tavon >> started almost everything but then had to leave the team for personal >> reasons. >> >> Now the Birmingham team can evolve and optimize the site. As said, most >> of the kb optimization relies in the CSS files since the HTML files >> themselves are rather small. Of course a better use of images will help, >> although the big header and banner had a lot to do (I think) with the >> good comments we received about the website. >> >> About the structure, all the GUADEC2006 static pages are "classified" >> under the /GUADEC2006 directory, it should be easy to update the site >> just by changing the home and assigning the Birmingham2007 pages in an >> own directory as well. >> >> -- >> Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> guadec-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list >> >> >> >> > > -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
