G'day Steve Thanks for the feedback on the ANPSA website. I've taken a quick look though some of the links you've included. Yes, the plants do seem distinctly different although the ones illustrated on my organisation's site represent a very small fraction of the total. There are probably more similarities than are at first apparent.
Have I considered a CMS? The short answer is no. To be honest I have only a vague idea of what they do and I'm not sure I'm much wiser having had a quick look at the Drupal and other CMS sites. When I started the ANPSA site in 1995 I taught myself a bit of HTML and I've added to that knowledge over the years as I needed to do different things. I've never felt the need to go beyond that. I'm sure you're right that a CMS-based site would make for a more professional looking and interactive site. I'm just not sure I'm ready for the learning curve involved - I'd rather be out taking photos :-)> Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:13 -0600, "steve harley" <[email protected]> wrote: > they whom i call Brian Walters wrote: > > I've been managing a web site for an organisation > > I belong to for over 10 years and it now comprises well over 1000 pages. > > I've never found the need to go beyond fairly straight-forward html > > with a bit of simple css. Here's a sample page from that organistaion's > > site. If you take a look at the code, I'm fairly sure you will be able > > to make out what's happening. > > > > http://asgap.org.au/member.html > > in this thread, this post made the biggest impression on me > because i enjoy native plants in the southwest US, and your > plants are so startlingly different; but also because the site is > such a clear opportunity for a content management system (CMS), > which could enhance the galleries, search, mapping, community > aspects (forums, calendar, plant ratings), etc. > > without diminishing the job you've done, have you considered a > leap to a CMS? it might take away some fine control, but i think > it would offer a lot of benefits to your society > > while everyone is discussing how to make headway with HTML, a CMS > could be a way to focus on the content of a site and grow a site > quickly, worrying much less about HTML; i use Drupal, so here are > some Drupal sites with native-plant info that might illustrate > some of the trade-offs; none is a gem -- the point is they are > probably run by volunteers and they have some features that are > fairly hard to hand-code > > <http://www.utahschoice.org/> > <http://heartwoodtmn.org/> > <http://www.robertsullivan.com/> > <http://bgm.stanford.edu/groups/grounds/special/ca_native_chart> > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
