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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:06:59 -0800
From: "Gavin M. Roy" <gmr@ehpg.net>
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Subject: Re: Hello and some questions
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Thanks for the quick update.  I'll just offer out there both design and 
programming assistance to whoever needs it on which ever project.  I'm a 
competent PHP coder (been using it since 2.0) and do a bit of design 
work.  I don't want to stick my nose where it isn't welcome, so if 
anyone has anything they want to hand off or collaborate on, let me know. 

Gavin

Dave Page wrote:

>Hi Gavin 
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Gavin M. Roy [mailto:gmr@ehpg.net] 
>>Sent: 15 December 2003 21:34
>>To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
>>Subject: [pgsql-www] Hello and some questions
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>>Hey everyone,
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>>  Looks like I was able to con Dave into letting me on this list. ;-) 
>>j/k.   I've been going through the archives to get caught up to speed 
>>and I wanted to ask a couple of basic overview questions:
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>:-)
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>>1. What is the current take on having one common design that 
>>is an integration of look, feel, and navigation across all of 
>>the sub-sites?
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>That is something I think we're all agreed we would like to see.
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>>2.  What is the current preference on programming languages 
>>for the seperate sites?
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>PHP4. Arguments could be made for using a CMS such as Bricolage for
>techdocs however (I think Josh looked at this, though I don't know how
>far he got).
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>>3.  Is programatic content management being done at all on 
>>the sites, or are they done via manual HTML editing?
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>Andreas' new portal is all DB backed content with online
>translation/editting, as is the existing advocacy site iirc. The
>existing portal has news, events and the docs in the DB. Techdocs is a
>mix of PHP pages with content and Wiki code iirc.
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>>4. What areas are open to modification, discussion, design 
>>and implementation, and what are off limits?
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>Nothing is off-limits though we should be giving priority to Andreas'
>new code at the moment. Once the main portal is as we wish, then the
>rest of the sites can be brought in line.
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>Regards, Dave.
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