Welcome Page - Featured IP

Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 17:46:36 -0400 (AST)
From: Christopher Majka <nextug@is.dal.ca>
To: David Potter <potter@csuite.ns.ca>
cc: ccn-ip@chebucto.ns.ca, editors@chebucto.ns.ca
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Hi David!

Finally got a chance to read through this and it seems clear enough. Just
the following points:

1) Presumably any CCN URL will work here, yes? In other words if we wished
to highlight for a period of time some new or revised portion of a site,
or whatever, then we could do this through this URL. For instance, we
might want to write up a shpiel about recent exciting changes in the IP
area and have the link leade there.

2) Can you change the edit permissions for /csuite/info/Policy/messages/ip
so that it is group writeable?

   Access Permissions
      Owner:  read, write, search
      Group:  read, search
      World:  read, search

I tried to edit the file and couldn't. ;-> When I attempt to change the
file permissions myself I get the following:

Probable failure to chmod 0775 /csuite/info/Policy/messages/ip due to
system error.

In any event, I think this is very exciting!

As soon as I can edit the file, my intention is to start a weekly rotation
of sites through here. I will also solicit IP's to tell us about recent
changes/additions/improvements, to their sites so that we can use this as
a springboard for featuring them.

Thanks again for all your hard work in getting this operational!

Chris

On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, David Potter wrote:

> The Featured IP function of the welcome page is a 'partial' url in the
> form of:
> 
> /Technology/HAPCS/index.html'> Halifax Area Personal Computer Club</a> 
> 
> The welcome page adds the front part... ie...
> 
> <a href="http://chebucto.ns.ca
> 
> On the welcome page when the IP Committee's turn comes around, this is
> rendered as:
> 
>  Featured IP! - [1] Halifax Area Personal Computer Club
> 
> -----
> 
> The urls, an english and french if we care (and are able) to provide both
> are contained in separate files in 
> 
> file://localhost/csuite/info/Policy/Messages/ip/
> 
> currently...
> 
> info/Policy/Messages/ip/hapcs.en
> 
> and...  
> 
> info/Policy/Messages/ip/hapcs.fr
> 
> The editing group for these files is fn-edit. <<*****
> 
> -----
> 
> You'll notice that these files do not have a html or txt extension...
> 
> Changing an IP involves changing (editing/replacing) these files.
> 
> THE URL LABEL ("Halifax Area Personal Computer Club") SHOULD be relatively
> compact... we don't have enough space to run on here... and SHOULD be on
> one line in the file... urls that are split over two lines behave badly...
> 
> ----- 
> 
> This is intended to describe the basic functionality... the possibility
> exist to develop this functionality into other areas or in other
> directions... I'll leave that to the IP committee, and simply ask that you
> work with this functionality for a few weeks before looking at changes...
> 
> -----
> 
> I'm hoping that I'll have statistics sorted out before we flash it up for
> the main user body...
> 
> cheers
> david potter 

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Christopher Majka                               <aa051@chebucto.ns.ca>
Editor-in-Chief: Chebucto Community Net - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
URL = http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Home.html

"We have ... in this country ... far too many captive editors who cannot 
even be heard to rattle their chains."              -- Carl E. Lindstrom
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