Hello,
In the absence of enough system resources to begin a study in Midgard
installations, I've switched my focus to the Tutorial section of the
manual. I hope to recieve some ram early in the coming week.
Anyway, as you probably know we're redesigning VMUC. The Midgardv1.4
manual will include a tutorial for building VMUCv1.4. If anybody has an
idea for the type of site or the functionality of the site, I'd really
like to hear about it.
I'm attaching the first couple of paragraphs of the "Building a Site"
tutorial. As you'll see, it states that we're building a musician's record
label site. This concept is open for suggestions and change. The one
qualifier for our concept is that it needs to be presentable to the OS
business community...well, to any business community.
<simpara>
The Midgardv1.4 tutorial builds a musicians record label website
where many artists have their homepages. The artists will be
responsible for maintianing several services including; product
database, news and bulletin board forums, mailing list and a yahoo
style internet portal. The site is designed so Midgard developers
can modify it to represent any business they desire. The site
and it's code are licensed LGPL which allows you to use the code
in any of your personal projects. The only requirement is that you
keep our copyright and license statements within the head tags of
your html document.
</simpara>
<simpara>
The tutorial is designed as an introduction to building and
serving sites with Midgard. The real power of Midgardv1.4 is the
sophisticated data publishing which is enabled by the MySQL
database backend and PHP3 scripting language. Therefore,
our examination of the application architecture and PHP syntax
recieve priority. Non-programmers should not be thwarted by
our focus on technical concerns. We guarantee this tutorial will
capture your imagination and supply you with an understanding
that'll help you produce dynamic internet applications.
</simpara>
The Midgardv1.4 manual isn't intended for hardcopy publication. It's going
to be a short concise document to satisfy 1.4 users. It'll include an
installation chapter. The deadline for completion is around the end of
September. That's not much time for writing a manual.
Armand, I sent you a couple letters but they've returned
"Undeliverable..." can you send me one, please. I really want to work over
the contents of the "Building a Site" chapter with you. I'd like to
make sure that we demonstrate functions which you think are important
in the new site. Also, I'll try to resolve the issues we spoke about
during our telephone conversation...you know, <insert same old excuse
here>.
BTW, hi!
Ron
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