Welcome Page - Featured IP

Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 18:16:05 -0400 (AST)
From: David Potter <potter@csuite.ns.ca>
To: Christopher Majka <nextug@is.dal.ca>
cc: ccn-ip@chebucto.ns.ca, editors@chebucto.ns.ca
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hi Chris...

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Christopher Majka wrote:

> 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.

Yes... bearing in mind that it is a 'partial' url...
 
> 2) Can you change the edit permissions for /csuite/info/Policy/messages/ip
> so that it is group writeable?

done... for everything under messages...
 
>    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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