[moby] Re: [MOBY-dev] Move to the new website

[Mark Wilkinson]

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 16:12 +0200, Pieter Neerincx wrote:
> First of all: OMG that new site is so much nicer than the old one!  
> That will a big plus for BioMOBY PR.

Yeah, we were all pretty blown away by what Simon did there!  Kudo's to
him!!


> That would be cool. Can't find any website stuff in the CVS that  
> contains the code though. I already registered at the new site, but  
> as far as I get it, that is only to add comments to news posts or  
> something. So how do I contribute to this wonderful new site?

The website is under WordPress control, so anyone who wants an account
can get one and edit the site as they desire.  We have a better
granularity of control with WordPress, such that we can prevent people
from changing e.g. the site templates, or certain "domains", while
allowing them to change other domains to their hearts content.  It isn't
CVS (i,e, there's no back-out of mistakes!) but it's quite nice!

To get a WordPress account ask Simon.  I don't think I have permissions
to create new accounts, so don't ask me :-)

There's a lot of work left to do on it, but I made some headway
yesterday in getting the client information moved over.  It's just a lot
of tedious HTML coding left to do, so I'll likely do the aesthetic stuff
in the pub just to make it tolerable ;-)

I'm planning to do a CVS checkout of the moby-live repository into the
web folder and then link into the new HTML docs that Frank has been
writing for the past few weeks.  Hopefully I'll be able to set up a cron
that updates that folder every day or so to keep the website docs
current.

Cheers all!

M


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Mark Wilkinson
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University of British Columbia
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