On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 06:00:48PM +0200, Peter Eschler wrote: > On Monday 12 April 2004 15:58, Dave Phillips wrote: > > Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > > > > Well, it would certainly help if the Linux soundapps pages didn't suck > > so bad. It's all hand-edited HTML, no dynamic content, no user feedback > > or other portals, no real assessments of the software, too little > > information for the entries, et cetera ad nauseam. > > > > I have lost count of the number of proposals I've received to upgrade > > the sites to some more modern format. As Robin Whittle described it, the > > pages are currently merely a monstrous "link farm", useful to some > > extent, but hardly state-of-the-useful-art. I have less than zero time > > to put into upgrading the site, and it is my hope that someday I'll be > > able to turn the whole thing over to the community to turn it into > > something more like what the community (myself included) would like to see. > > Since i did some LAMP sites last year, i have some experience in creating a > dynamic site. Like with everybody else my time is limited, but trying to > bring "Sound & MIDI Software For Linux" into a dynamic form using PHP sounds > like a challenge ;-)
FYI, I'm still planning to implement my own proposal which has been discussed quite a lot in the L-A-U archives. I do somewhat similar sites for a living. It just needs me to block out a chunk of time (1 or 2 weekends) to bang it out. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's THE KILLER MACHINE! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com)
