Morning Dilwyn, > However, the failure to explain all this publicly and the fact it went on for > a long > time without explanation does give the impression of negligence in updating > the > website, whereas the truth is that the whole sorry situation is actually down to > the CMS not working as it should on the free server spaces used, making it > impossible to provide a decent website while that system is in use.
I sneaked a peek at the home page source code. Looks like Quanta are using TYP03 as the CMS (www.typ03.org) which is not one I've heard of in the past, but a qucik web search shows that some pretty big organisations use it - Thomas Cook, Unicef, Lidl etc - so it can't be a problem with the CMS per se. Maybe it's the people using it? Maybe the free hosting company can't cope with the load, who knows. The system itself seems pretty light on resources, so maybe the switch to a paid for host will help. My own website (http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk) - or maybe I should call it George's web site as he is doing most of the updating at the moment (thanks George) - is run on a simple Wiki (www.Dokuwiki.org) which is useful and simple and works pretty well even when broadband is reduced to an 11 mbs (bits not bytes!) wireless connection! (Which is what I have to use at work!). However, I don't think that would be suitable for Quanta. I do think that CMS is the way to go with a enterprise web site these days, it takes far too long and is not really cost effective to be hand coding HTML - even with a WYSISWYG HTML editor - you need to be able to connect, edit, save and disconnect, not messing about with HTML and then trying to FTP the results to the right place etc etc. However, I've been on the site (using the above mentioned wifi link) and it's very responsive, quite fast - and it looks good. So, I'm rather concerned at the fact that you have problems with it when editing or updating - I'm loathe to believe that the free hosting is at fault, unless your bandwidth is throttled somehow and the editing process is hitting a limit? Not much help I know, just random thoughts mainly, and a bit of encouragement. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
