Re: [Tools-team] Web site update proposal

Hi Andrew,

on 2006-03-06 22:28 Andrew Sullivan said the following:
> Hello all,
> 
> First, my apologies for not making the last two meetings.  I've been
> dealing with the occasional emergency around here, and unfortunately,
> since my boss and I comprise the entire "team" at the moment in our
> little area, I haven't been able to say no.

Yes.  I know how it can be.

> That said, I've managed to address (I think) Henrik's comments, and
> have updated the test site to cover the front page and the Overview
> section.  Everything else is incomplete, but I think this gives at
> least an idea of how this can proceed.

Ok.  I'd like the menubar to take up a bit less room; I've tweaked
it a little bit - have a look at http://www1.tools.ietf.org/demo/www.ietf.org
now and see what you think.

> I have to say that editing all the pages is something of a pain in
> the neck.  I think that, if NeuStar or whoever is going to do this
> with a minimum of fuss, they're going to need to write a little
> program to parse the existing pages, and strip off some of the
> presentation stuff and covert it to conformant xhtml.  Alternatively,
> just running it through tidy does wonders.  

Yes, and yes.

> My experience with doing this while in no way engaged in webby type
> things makes me think, more than ever, that ultimately some sort of
> content management system is going to be the only answer.

Well, I'm not so sure of that, still.  But it's ultimately up to the
maintainers, I'd say.

> Any additional thoughts, &c., are welcome.  We will not have, I'm
> sure, a complete demo site for the Dallas meeting, but I think
> there's enough here to show and tell.  Do others agree?

I think this is a good start.

	Henrik

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