[plug] Attention, webcritters!

[Randal Adamson]

If you guys want some assistance in plug web stuff - let me know. I
don't know if I can provide countless hours of work - but a few here and
there is sure to assist??

Perhaps phpnuke maybe the go? To me postnuke and phpnuke are extremely
similar (in respect to what they do - end result speaking). However,
phpnuke seemed to be more easily modified and configurable. Especially
if it was run on an ISP's server - where you didn't have root access etc
etc.

You can easily setup "Blocks" in phpnuke - which allow for easy-managed
"customised" content. Blocks can be made to run a cgi or just plain
html.

Ranz

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au
[mailto:plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au] On Behalf Of skribe
Sent: Friday, 9 April 2004 2:36 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Attention, webcritters!

On Fri,  9 Apr 2004 12:54, James Devenish wrote:

> > but Postnuke seems unnecessarily complicated to do simple things.

RTFM =)

> Someone has suggested using 'Xaraya', though I have no idea about the
> relative merits of this package or the process of migrating to it.

That would be me.  Xaraya is more secure, more adaptable and IMO easier
to 
use.  PN has a huge overhead that hogs resources.  With Xaraya you need
only 
install what you need..

> > (IMNSHO Plug would be better served with flat HTML pages which would
> > look uglier

PN (and its predecessor PHPNuke) was chosen because at the time it
offered 
the most bang for the buck.  My plan as web admin was to create a means
for 
members who weren't on the mailing list and those who were either new to

linux or PLUG to access information and to be provided with support.  It
was 
in a sense PLUG's advertising and advocacy framework and a means to
extend 
the PLUG community.  We needed something like PN because I was trying to
add 
new information every day.  That no longer seems to be the case.  In
fact 
much of the information on the site is out-of-date and some hasn't
changed 
since I was admin.  This isn't a flame aimed at more recent admins - I
know 
how time consuming it can be to run the site.  Why do you think I left?
=). 
Even then I had the assistance of my wife, Tony 'the hit man' Breeds and
Matt 
'I lug around a 19inch' Kemner.  It was never a one person job and it
should 
never be required to be.  That's the other reason why we chose da Nukes.
So 
the load could be shared.  They offered a facility to create sub-admins.
But 
getting back to my point, if you're not going to keep the site
up-to-date, 
then why bother having a web site at all?  It just looks bad.

skribe
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When this load is DONE I think I'll wash it AGAIN ...

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