Re: [AGA-mcm] Index Updated

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Cheryl Rogers wrote:

> This time I was thinking that we set TAG up on it's own domain name (I
> already purchased the domain), and have archived articles there, along
> with advertising info, submission info, more categories of stuff, and a
> downloadable sample issue in pdf format. Then any membership stuff gets
> linked back to the main site.

My first reaction is Um... Why?  If you want to maintain it on another 
physical site because it's easier for you, sure, go ahead.  Are you also 
volunteering to host the content on this other site?  It would definitely 
be free of my meddling in that case! :)


I do see a very real need to re-organize some of the physical layout of 
the content on the site, which suffers from severe entropy at the moment. 
It's a combination of Neil's son's original layout with every graphic 
under the "pic" subdirectory, my haphazard placing of graphic sometimes in 
the root directory, and the sample articles being strewn wherever in the 
root directory (with material in subdirectories).  Add to that random 
temporary files for third parties to grab, old expired logos, etc...


I would LIKE to see it moved around so that the root directory has only 
the main pages, and then there are subdirectories for (names just 
examples):

    TAGIndex/ (exists)
    Articles/ (each article is a subdirectory under that with its own
               index.html)
    Pit/ (temporary file area used to make things available for others
         on semi-private basis, like the MikeHellweg zip file)

    PR/ (brochures, forms, permanent logo graphics)
    banners/ (exists)

The pic/ directory would get removed -- its content either should be moved 
to article archive directories, banners, PR, or deleted.

Maybe this is the same thing as you're proposing, except in your view, 
TAGIndex/ Articles/ and the tag.html page moves to a new domain as well.


I will say, though, that it's occasionally difficult having the contest 
and forum on different virtual sites.  For instance, when I wanted to have 
a rotating banner ad for the convention and contest in 2005, I was only 
able to do it on the "main" site, because that particular server-side 
script only ran from that one location.  The forum, I beleive, ended up 
with a single static banner.


> It might also be a good time to give the main site a commensurate
> makeover, like two color/design themes that complement each other.

This suggestion is long overdue.  As basic as I like to be, I have been 
thinking of little javascript bits to make the TAG archive DVD/article 
index look better, like having the author index expand (or go to a new 
page) when you click on the author.

And of course, two different design themes is as simple as two different 
.css files.

   - Erik
     aka "Crusty"

-- 
Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com
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