Re: (clug-http) I guess this is it

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Hey Jeff,

> For all the talk about our website and whatnot it seems like nobody
> actually wants to get involved in it except us.

Looks like Shawn Grover wants to lend a hand. When Roy was here he also=20
expressed an interest in helping us do something new. I wouldn't count him=
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out.

> So what would we like to do for the site?
>
> The real important things are:
>  1) news page where we can post meetings and events so that people see
>  it
>  2) static pages like bylaws, etc

Agreed. I still like the idea of PostNuke as I see us growing in that=20
direction. Wouldn't hurt to have it set up that way from the start. More wo=
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up front less later.

> I'm almost wondering if we should just pick some sort of static page
> thing.  It would be less work to setup and not a really big deal to work
> with since nobody else seems too interested in maintaining content.  Big
> bonus with static pages is there is almost nothing to go wrong, low load
> on the server, and we can make offline copies for trade shows, etc.  We
> could just use something like modLayout to tack headers and footers onto
> our pages.

I agree with the sentiment of what you are saying. Following the KISS metho=
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certainly would speed things up. I also like the idea of the offline copy=20
too. Dan toodled with this with CLUGGIX. Take a snapshot of our site as it=
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were.

> Do we want to allow people to post replys on news items?  I would think
> maybe not.  That's what we have mailing lists for.

No, I don't think replies to news items are necessary. Yes, that is what th=
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mailing list is for.

> I would like to add a form based mailing list subscription / unsubscribe
> thing.  (20sec of PHP)

Sounds like a fabulous idea to me. Make your life easier. My concern from m=
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experience is how you handle unsubscribing from a website. The user could b=
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anybody. How are you proposing to identify who is unsubscribing. Subscribin=
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is too easy.

Those would be my thoughts. Do you want to get together sometime to go over=
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anything? Or is email fine for now?

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