Re: [RULE] Call to arms and requirements for the website

[Paul Nijjar]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Marco Fioretti wrote:

>     If this is not possible using standard CMS system nor recommended
>     by more expert webmasters, html is also OK for me as long as it
>     remains possible to
>
>            not care of site layout, ie generate/maintain only the
>            actual page content (no headers, footers, etc)
>
>              do it offline and upload the result
>
>              upload at once many pages, specifying for each its
>              location in the directory tree
>
>            insert in each page pointers to chunks of PHP code (see
>            as example the source of the current home pages)


        Maybe it would make sense to use CVS or Subversion or some other
revision control system to give access to the website content? Then people
could download the website (compressed, if this is possible in these
systems), edit it on their home computers, and simply commit changes.

        The costs for this are that people have to make at least one large
download and regular smaller ones, that people may have to get
PHP/Apache working on their website machines if they actually want to test
their changes without uploading them, and somebody has to administrate
CVS/Subversion/whatever access.

         The advantages are that you get to modify the website offline, it
is easy to specify locations for files, you can *test* your changes
locally (with PHP/Apache/...) and it is easy (?) to keep local copies of
the website up to date.

        I don't know how this affects port access. It depends on whether
these revision control systems support http(s).

- Paul