On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 08:12:37AM -0800, Mike Noyes wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 07:44, Jaap Eldering wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 07:19:35AM -0800, Mike Noyes wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 03:58, Jaap Eldering wrote:
> > > > Another remark: it was unclear to me what the title of this (and the
> > > > other) links "network appliance" refer to. Maybe it would be clearer
> > > > if the title "announcements" etc. itself would contain the links.
> > > 
> > > Google string: network appliance
> > > 
> > >         A network attached device targeted at a specific task (print
> > >         server, firewall, router, storage, etc.).
> > 
> > Yes, I understand the meaning of "network appliance", however I don't
> > understand why this term is used here as the link name: it's such a
> > general term in the context of the LEAF site, that it gives (at least
> > me) no clue, about what it links to. I hope I'm clearer now.
> 
> Jaap,
> Ah. The CMS we use has a facility called fatcat. One of it's functions
> is to generate the what's related links from defined categories. These
> change depending on the branch site you use and the page viewed.
> 
> Examples:
> http://leaf-project.org/devel/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=51
> http://leaf-project.org/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=4
> 
> Many of the related announcements, links, and web pages in our hub were
> tagged with "network appliance" category. Our home page was given that
> category also, so the result is what you see.
> 
> Does that help?

Ok, all clear to me now. I probably just didn't pay too much attention
to this "What's related" sidebar and never noticed, that it also
contained different categories.

Thanks for pointing all this out.

Jaap


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