On 25 Feb 2011, at 08:37, Norman Dunbar wrote: > 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. >
It's a pity that it wouldn't be suitable for QUANTA. Even I find it pretty easy to alter. (Only one trap or vector left to create.) > 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. > > I recently had to move my tiny, rudimentary website from the "free" ukonline to 123-reg. I imagine that there are fewer and fewer "freely" hosted sites these days. The new host was very helpful when I failed initially to get the thing working. I look forward to the time when my site address will eventually appear on the QUANTA site which is quick and easy to follow - but a bit slow on the update. George _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
