what we need is an Information Architect to take inventory of all this
stuff ... the site is huge and I agree, it is really really really hard
to find stuff.
: r o b
rob wrote:
> Hmmm ... Maybe I'm just crazy, but on a site this size with this
> frequency of changes, mozilla.org is just begging to be
> database/template driven. Is it using includes at least right now
> (is that the Wrapper Gervase was talking about? Sorry don't know
> anything about how it is built right now.)
>
> I'm not sure who would be willing to implement (I could in time with
> the right permissions, but never could on the timetable that might be
> needed -- full time job and part time jobs already) ... but maybe some
> considerations should be put into making the site Database
> (PHP/mySQL?) driven so as to keep the content / presentation
> seperated. The overall look would be seperate. Hmmmm ... where have
> we heard that before?
>
> Also, navigation for sub-sections might be drops downs which would be
> updated dynamically based on the database/content management being
> updated. This would facilatate many things, not the least of which
> would be automatic date stamps on every page so you could judge last
> time something was edited, and content wouldn't disappear or get lost.
>
> So people wouldn't necessarily need to know PHP it could all be run
> from a Web admin panel or something .... just dump your html in there
> and run ....
>
> This overall sounds great, but would probably be a monumental
> undertaking.
>
> Maybe some real die hard PHP head out there knows of an Open Source
> tool that might already exist that could be used?
>
> Just a thought. Maybe a little to idealistic.
>
