[spambayes-dev] FW: Web Site

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> "Meyer, Tony" wrote
> > In fact, I was thinking to propose to do a new design to make
> > a more attractive web site. I've made several web sites already
> > (http://www.jext.org or http://progx.jext.org are some examples)
> > and came to create a lite "web site engine" (which is behind the
> > two URLs I quoted).

> I'm completely on the fence with this one, but I imagine that other
> developers aren't, so a discussion on spambayes-dev is the best idea.
> Do people:
>   (a) like the current design
>   (b) want a new design, but not radically different
>   (c) want a radically different design?
> 
> I would suggest, though, that anyone interested in doing a redesign take
> a look at the existing tools.  The website isn't done with html, it's
> done with .ht files (plus a text file for the faq), and converted to
> html via ht2html.  I would imagine that a Python program would be
> preferable to a PHP one.

I'm quite happy for someone to spend the time making the website look
pretty, but I'm completely unimpressed with the idea of using PHP. We
have bits of it at work (along with large amounts of python) and it's
a pig to maintain.
 
All the pages are generated using ht2html, and this is easily tweakable
and changeable to make the site "more pretty". I don't see much point to
making the site have an all-singing, all-dancing web-accessible frontend
for updating it - it's not like there's that many things that need to be
updated on a regular basis.

Anthony
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Anthony Baxter     <anthony at interlink.com.au>   
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.