[aclug-local] Re: ACLUG Website - which way to go...

[Anne McCadden <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

I have done some web page design, but not recently.  Mostly what I work 
with is spreadsheets and databases.  What do you need help with?  ~Anne

Tom Hull wrote:

>Anne McCadden wrote:
>
>>Thats great and I will try that.  Do you need any more help with 
>>anything with the website?
>>
>
>Yes. Doing just about everything. Think a little bit about what you'd
>like to do. The "scratch your own itch" principle says you should
>look at the website and decide that missing feature you personally
>most want to see done, or what broken feature you personally most
>want to see fixed. So that's one way to think about it. Then write
>me back directly and we'll talk and figure something out.
>
>Same for anyone else who has the itch. (No doubt Dale would welcome
>help on the neuralmatrix/postnuke alternate website prototype.)
>
> > Now that I am not going to be working with
>
>>the Second Saturday Sale, then I would like to do something that will 
>>help use and learn about linux more.  I'm playing with MySQL right now. 
>> ttyl ~Anne
>>
>
>The notwerk/openacs website uses PostgreSQL. Most of what you know
>about MySQL is useful with PostgreSQL and vice versa.
>
>>Tom Hull wrote:
>>
>>>Anne McCadden wrote:
>>>
>>>>How about if we put various hardware in the classified ads of notwerks. 
>>>>Who do we need to notify to make this happen.  ~Anne
>>>>
>>>You should be able to do it yourself: go to the http://aclug.notwerk.net/
>>>homepage, click on "Classifieds", click on "Stuff for Sale", click on
>>>"Place An Ad", click on "Hardware / Computer Parts." If you have registered
>>>and cannot do that, there's some permission glitch that we need to track
>>>down.
>>>
>>>One slightly puzzling thing is that when you go to "Stuff for Sale" it
>>>shows you "Recent Ads" but not ad categories. Turns out that it will
>>>always show you the most recent 5 (configurable) ads, but only shows
>>>the categories if there are more ads than are show in the Recent Ads
>>>list. Since there are currently only 2 ads, the categories aren't shown.
>>>
>>>Also note that the "Add/Edit Alert" link lets you get mail when new ads
>>>are posted, or periodic digests of new ads.
>>>
>>>One more note: the full text search isn't working on the ACLUG site. I
>>>have it working here -- the difference being that I was able to install
>>>pltcl locally but not on the aclug.notwerk.net machine. Someone should
>>>file a bug report on that. (OK, I filed the bug report, #4.)
>>>
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