On Monday 12 April 2004 15:58, Dave Phillips wrote: > Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> > Well, it would certainly help if the Linux soundapps pages didn't suck > so bad. It's all hand-edited HTML, no dynamic content, no user feedback > or other portals, no real assessments of the software, too little > information for the entries, et cetera ad nauseam. > > I have lost count of the number of proposals I've received to upgrade > the sites to some more modern format. As Robin Whittle described it, the > pages are currently merely a monstrous "link farm", useful to some > extent, but hardly state-of-the-useful-art. I have less than zero time > to put into upgrading the site, and it is my hope that someday I'll be > able to turn the whole thing over to the community to turn it into > something more like what the community (myself included) would like to see. Since i did some LAMP sites last year, i have some experience in creating a dynamic site. Like with everybody else my time is limited, but trying to bring "Sound & MIDI Software For Linux" into a dynamic form using PHP sounds like a challenge ;-) What i see: For now you just have categories, entries in this categories and a text for each entry (obviously the link is necessary too). Is this data available only in HTML? Or do you have some sort of CSV file or SQL-Data? CSV or database would make the task easier, otherwise it would be necessary to parse the HTML to get the initial data. I would try to build the sites upon PHP, allowing to add, delete and modify content via a webinterface. Webserver has to be run under linux using apache. The data itself could be stored in a XML file or a SQL-Database. The latter may introduce additional maintenance work and i'm not a DB guy. As i said, i can't promise anything, but if you do not have other plans for the site in your queue, i would give it a try. PE -- "Without music, life would _O_/ \_O_/ +----------------------+ be a mistake - I would / )) [] | Peter Eschler | only believe in a god who \\ // | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | knew how to dance." (Nietzsche) // \\ +----------------------+