I hope that you "webmasters" are not using java! There are too many sites
that does and there is no need for java. It just slows the download of the
site.
Ed
Mike WA6ILQ wrote:
> Your webmasters - all of us - have been overhauling the web
> site in the background over the last month or so. This is why
> some donated material has been late being posted, and a few
> pieces haven't been posted (yet). The underlying structure of
> the web site was getting hard to manage.
>
> The average user does not realize how big the repeater-builder web
> site is, and how it's grown in the last couple of years. It started out
> as a reference site - a few hundred k of pages and images in a few
> directories - oriented towards GE and Motorola and now, well, here
> are some excerpts from the last statistics run:
>
> type total
> html 2,720 KB
> gif 7,889 KB
> jpeg 48,320 KB
> pdf 105,421 KB
> powerpoint 6,384 KB
> audio 5,710 KB
>
> Total 231,030 KB in over 50 directories
>
> Anyway, what am I leading up to?
>
> Over the last couple of years your volunteer staff has been adding
> a lot of donated material and re-organizing the web site to make it
> easier to maintain and to grow even more (which depends on YOU
> and your donated material - hint - hint - nudge - nudge).
> You probably have noticed new items showing up on the menus
> (like the ArCom and Kendecomm links in the last few weeks).
> And other web pages are getting more detail - like the photos
> added to the Moto channel element and GE icom pages.
>
> The web site re-organization has been accomplished by copying
> files into new subject-oriented directories and adjusting the
> pointers. The old files remained "just in case".
>
> The Bottom Line:
>
> We did a major housecleaning last night, working from a list
> of "orphan files" that the statistics program developed.
> We moved almost 200 "just in case" files to three "holding tanks".
>
> All readers - please - if ANYBODY gets a missing web page or
> a missing image, or a missing download file, PLEASE LET
> US KNOW by dropping a note to Mike WA6ILQ at
> (callsign) at arrl dot net. We can restore the "just in case"
> file, or better yet, fix the pointer buried in the web page.
>
> We trust the program that produced the orphans list, but
> human error may have missed a few or picked up one or two
> that weren't supposed to be moved yet.
>
> We aren't too worried about off-site links, just the on-site
> ones right now.
>
> The overall web site re-org will be in multiple phases, this is
> just phase one.
>
> Mike WA6ILQ
>
>
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