[drats_users] Ideas for the web site

[Steinar Wenaas]

Dear Dan,
I think we're fine with the existing Web pages. I think they are already
great,
but I suggest a Hardware Tab as an extention to the
http://www.d-rats.com/wiki/FrontPage S tabs

FrontPage DownloadPage .....Hardware

The new Hardware Tab lists typical cable interconnection information for
typical radio targets
ID-800, IC91....,etc and tells which cables types to connect
between the PC and the radio for the various radios (at least some typical)
(and perhaps (?) where to get the cables) or Web pointers to some homemade
schematics
for such.
I have searched and been honored with good answers on this discussion forum
about it,
but that could be given in general on Web in order to reduce tidy questions
for other users
that know all this already.

Thanks,
LA7XQ Steinar

2009/4/22 Dan Smith <dsmith at danplanet.com>

> Hi all,
>
> A couple of people have recently remarked to me that they find the
> current web site for D-RATS to be confusing and disorganized.  I think
> that some of this stems from an expectation of a polished and
> professionally-maintained site funded from the copious proceeds of the
> product being sold.  Clearly, D-RATS doesn't fit that mold :)
>
> I initially chose a wiki because I had a grand plan of people helping
> me with managing and generating the web content (something that is
> becoming more popular these days on various projects).  Thus far, only
> a few people have stepped up and helped out in a few places.  However,
> we still have a dearth of information on the site and it's not easily
> reachable.
>
> I hope that people would rather me spend time working on D-RATS itself
> than spinning (badly-done) web pages, but maybe I'm mistaken.
>
> So, I'm asking the group here for suggestions and ideas on how to
> improve.  Some possible options are:
>
>  1. Leave it the way it is and bark at people that don't like it
>
>  2. Leave it the way it is and name a few specific people as
>     custodians
>
>  3. Move to a more static site that looks slick but that doesn't
>     have any updated information over time
>
>  4. Move to a different type of CMS that will still allow user
>     contributions but *might* be easier to use than the wiki (I think
>     it's easy to use as-is of course, but I'm biased)
>
>  5. Me split my time between working on D-RATS features and creating
>     web content (this one doesn't end well, by the way :)
>
> Note that the trac area has a wiki component (not as flexible as the
> main site, but would still allow some user-content independent of what
> we do for the main site).
>
> So, seriously.  Speak up with your thoughts.  If there's something we
> can do to change for the better, then lets do it!
>
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> Dan Smith
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