Re: [midgard-user] Midgard Web site redesign

[Philipp Rotmann, Linksystem Muenchen]

     Hi Henri,

On 07.01.01 (20:23), Henri Bergius wrote:
> > >   * Midgard-powered sites listing
> > 
> > That would possibly be a job for the new Midhoo
(...)
> However, some additional features would make it even more
> useful in the future:
> 
> * Saving of location information (district) to a String field
>   so that we can put country information to it instead of Zip
>   code

Agreed.

> * Adding contact name so that we can have the contact
>   information of an individual or company responsible for
>   developing the site. This way people could easily get in
>   touch with Midgard solution providers in their are or whose
>   work they like

So we'd have to save contact name and email address -- unless...

> * Possibility to update/delete their own midHoo records for
>   logged in users (the new site will include optional
>   registration).

...but this means that all of those contact people will have
accounts on the site, doesn't it?  Then it would be more elegant
to use the record owner's name and email address on the Midgard
site.

Well, another field for the contact name is no additional work,
I'll just include it for the first release. Another feature that
will be included is editorial approval -- newly submitted links
won't publicly appear before an editor has approved them. Maybe
I'll have a configuration directive to switch this behaviour off
if not needed. But it implies a simple editing interface for
those link records -- I'm only not sure whether I'll manage to
release it as quality code with documentation with the first
midhoo package (which I privately announced for the end of
January just before one of my team members came up with the
approval idea ;-)).

> What localization solution will you use? I feel this should
> be standardized for all components of the site.

Agreed.  I thought about language snippets with string classes,
similar to Asgard -- but as I have yet to have a real close look
on Asgard's localization concepts I'm not sure how much of it I
will borrow. On the one hand, I'd like to implement a general
concept which could also be used in more complex apps (as in the
rest of the Midgard website), but on the other I'd like to Keep
It Small & Simple (or so). Not finally decided, indeed.

     phr
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