[Gloucs] Draft new GLUG website

[Barbie]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:47:36PM +0100, Glyn Davies wrote:
> Andrew Oakley wrote:
> >
> >Glyn mentioned that the Gloucestershire LUG website is way 
> >out-of-date, and would be better replaced with something simpler that 
> >didn't require updating.
> >
> >Here's my attempt: http://aoakley.com/glug-draft/
> >
> >One single page. Links to mailing list mailman page. Automatically 
> >calculates date of next meeting and links to map of MessageLabs venue 
> >(but warns to check on the mailing list). Has option to view the PHP 
> >source.
> 
> Looks good.
> 
> Barbie has been working on the website for a while (in truth he did it 
> months ago but I've been to busy to get around to review properly). It 
> has a Barbie (TM) content management system and is pretty cool.
> 
> Barbie, are you happy to release your beta to the masses? We can compare 
> and contrast.

Fine for me :)

The link is http://glug.grango.org/

The templates use the current site as a starting point, but it is
relatively simple to change the look via CSS. The content is all driven
from the current site, but with the ability to add users, those users
can login and change their profiles (Members list) and add content (eg
News or Articles for the Archive).

The website management system is Labyrinth, which runs Birmingham Perl
Mongers among other things, and is likely to be used for another user
group type thing in the forseeable future.

Virtually all the content you see is created dynamically, so any page
that needs corrections or updating can be done fairly simply by the
admins via their login.

Glyn mentioned that he was interested in some feeds to keep the front
page updated with news snippets and the like from other techy places,
which I'm happy to do, but need some ideas of what would be good places
to get feeds, bearing in mind that they must have either an RSS Feed or
allow web scraping to get new content.

Thoughts and suggestions gratefully received :)

Cheers,
Barbie.
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