[webdev] Re: FW: Message submitted to 'announce'

[Tom Hull <thull@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Henry Nelson" <henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <announce@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: [announce] webdev project
> 
> Hi Tom:
> 
> I can help some with the web site. I have a website development firm (Nelson
> & Nelson). We can do design and digital photography for the site. We can
> also do some programming (if you don't mind having it done on a PC). We can
> provide space for the site on one of our servers if you don't mind having
> the url redirected to a folder. We can't afford to give away a static IP. We
> could get you a server space with your own IP for $20.00 a year.

Please sign up for the webdev@xxxxxxxxx mailing list. Certainly we can use
the design help. We're probably in better shape for programming (at least
that's something I can do), but I expect lots of subprojects will pop up.

We have our own domain name. We need to work out the hosting options; too
early, I think, to settle that now.

> On a technical note: I noticed you are thinking of doing pages with some
> frames. While they are handy for navigation and for increasing site
> "stickiness", frames are not friendly to search engine spiders, so we try to
> avoid them.

IMHO, frames suck. I've never deployed them on a real website, and have no
inclination to use them here. I guess I did use the word "framework" quite
a bit -- that's engineering jargon for a common implementation (software,
database schema) that can be reused extensively. For example, we can have
a book review framework, where we define database schema for book title,
author, publisher, etc., and user-provided review comments and ratings,
then write scripts that can search, present, add, and update book review
data. The schema and scripts are reused for every book review -- they
are the framework which supports potentially vast amounts of data.

> Let me know,
> 
> Henry Nelson

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