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The Distibuted TeAm Anandtech Web Page Update Project

I will be happy to help were I can... I may make some designs up but I would not have time to update all the information though. 🙁
 
Originally posted by: RemyCanad
I will be happy to help were I can... I may make some designs up but I would not have time to update all the information though. 🙁
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I'm sure someone on here would be happy to keep it up to date.
 
I find myself in the strange position of having to agree with PorBleemo. It's a shame a great team like Anandtech has such an outdated website. if you want to see what can be just checkout Ars's Food Court.
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
No offence guys, but if you think it should be done that bad "shut up and do it."
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If I knew how I would but at least my main project seti@home has a link on the front page of it . Can't say the same about SOB at least not one I can see.
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Looks pretty darned nice to me... granted that flashy graphics and logos take time, I think it's up to the community as a whole to throw some time towards taking our DC Projects pages and stats pages to the next level if that's a common goal...

But I do have to agree with n0cmonkey... instead of just making a comment like "When you click on the "Team Anandtech" link on the main page the site is way out of date. We need a new one!", maybe an offer to help with working on it would be nice otherwise it just comes across as a slam to the person vollunteering their time and skills to the TeAm... Some people sure do talk a lot and the offer someone else's time to do the work... :|
 
I think if we could find something that utlizes a content management system would be nice. That way the webamster could setup the look of the site, but individuals who can be given rights to update content could do so without knowing a lick of HTML, Flash, etc.

As I have time I will look for something, but if anyone else knows of something that would do this inexpensively, it would be nice 🙂
 
Originally posted by: GeoffS
Looks pretty darned nice to me... granted that flashy graphics and logos take time, I think it's up to the community as a whole to throw some time towards taking our DC Projects pages and stats pages to the next level if that's a common goal...

But I do have to agree with n0cmonkey... instead of just making a comment like "When you click on the "Team Anandtech" link on the main page the site is way out of date. We need a new one!", maybe an offer to help with working on it would be nice otherwise it just comes across as a slam to the person vollunteering their time and skills to the TeAm... Some people sure do talk a lot and the offer someone else's time to do the work... :|
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I don't remember anyone asking for flashy graphics and logos , just a page that is up to date like the very nice page Amdxborg has and who would a person offer to help since whoever has control of the current page doesn't seem to be around much if any these days
All of us aren't software or web experts does that make us less a part of Amandtech then those of you who are?
 
Originally posted by: Freewolf
I don't remember anyone asking for flashy graphics and logos , just a page that is up to date like the very nice page Amdxborg has and who would a person offer to help since whoever has control of the current page doesn't seem to be around much if any these days
All of us aren't software or web experts does that make us less a part of Amandtech then those of you who are?
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Originally posted by: Freewolf
I find myself in the strange position of having to agree with PorBleemo. It's a shame a great team like Anandtech has such an outdated website. if you want to see what can be just checkout Ars's Food Court.
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I'm certainly not trying to imply that there are classes of TeAm mates, or to slam anyone... Your comment about holding Ars's Food Court up as an example prompted my reply about the graphics and stuff. I fully recognize that different people have different talents and abilities, not to mention time to throw at a project... and am appreciative of everybody's efforts.

Geoff
 
Originally posted by: GeoffS
Originally posted by: Freewolf
I don't remember anyone asking for flashy graphics and logos , just a page that is up to date like the very nice page Amdxborg has and who would a person offer to help since whoever has control of the current page doesn't seem to be around much if any these days
All of us aren't software or web experts does that make us less a part of Amandtech then those of you who are?
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Originally posted by: Freewolf
I find myself in the strange position of having to agree with PorBleemo. It's a shame a great team like Anandtech has such an outdated website. if you want to see what can be just checkout Ars's Food Court.
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I'm certainly not trying to imply that there are classes of TeAm mates, or to slam anyone... Your comment about holding Ars's Food Court up as an example prompted my reply about the graphics and stuff. I fully recognize that different people have different talents and abilities, not to mention time to throw at a project... and am appreciative of everybody's efforts.

Geoff
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I was referring to this ( Are's Food court )

AFS - Ars Flying Squadron
· TAM - Particle Simulation
· TBA - Climate Prediction
· TBR - Distributed.net
· TCC - Medical Research
· TER - Folding@Home
· TFY - D2OL Sengent
· TLC - Seti@home
· TPR - GIMPS
· TPR - SOB
· TPS - Genome@home
· TSF - Distributed Folding
· TVM - ECC2-109

or this ( Amdxborg"s page }

SETI@home
climateprediction.net
Community TSC
D²OL
DHEP
Distributed Folding
DPAD
eOn
evolution@home
Find-a-Drug
Folding@home
Genome@Home
Lifemapper
MD5CRK
Euler
SOB
United Devices
Ubero
ZetaGrid

As opposed to this ( Anandtech's page )

Distributed.net
SETI @ Home
Genome @ Home
Folding @ Home


If it's a "team" website why aren't all the projects listed instead of only 4 ?
 
Originally posted by: Crazee
I think if we could find something that utlizes a content management system would be nice. That way the webamster could setup the look of the site, but individuals who can be given rights to update content could do so without knowing a lick of HTML, Flash, etc.

As I have time I will look for something, but if anyone else knows of something that would do this inexpensively, it would be nice 🙂
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I think someone's on the right track here; a content management system would be a great benefit in this regard... give different people permission to their sub-page. All I ask is that it not be PHP Nuke or relatives, because our TeAm deserves something better than the yet-another-open-source-crappy-portal-site look. I personally would be glad to do something about a template for a redesign later today or tomorrow when I'm less busy, but I do not intend to take away from the fine work amdxborg has already done in this regard. Nevertheless, though my XHTML and CSS skills are passable, my PHP is nicht so gut, and my ASP is entirely non-existant, so perhaps someone else would be better suited for the job, though I'd be glad to help in any way possible (including with the management of the F@H section if a real content management system is implemented).
 
You know... the stats server's going to have lots of empty disk space on it... If someone wants to point me to how a 'content management' system should work, I could take a shot at a barebones one... my php & mysql skills are passable... At that point, we could roll the stats, the content management, and all the excellent work other members have done onto one server... Is this perhaps too ambitious?

Geoff
 
Originally posted by: GeoffS
You know... the stats server's going to have lots of empty disk space on it... If someone wants to point me to how a 'content management' system should work, I could take a shot at a barebones one... my php & mysql skills are passable... At that point, we could roll the stats, the content management, and all the excellent work other members have done onto one server... Is this perhaps too ambitious?

Geoff
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I think both you and jliechty are on the right track although I think maybe a mirror somewhere else might be a good idea as a backup in case something goes down. I believe having someone involved in a project keeping a check on that project page is a good idea..
I don't know how Amdxborg would feel about it but I think the work he had already done is great and would be a great start .
I am willing to do what I can but my software knowledge doesn't go much past installing windows.
 
heh... I have no intention of reinventing the wheel... if there's stuff out there that can be used, I'm all for it.

As far as mirroring is concerned, I think that's a great idea too... mirroring the code is easy... mirroring the data is maybe not as easy... unless we're talking about having all of the update processes running on two separate boxes...

jliechty Having noted what you *don't* want it to look like, do you have some examples of what you *would* like to see?

Geoff
 
Hey guys! First, thanx for the kind words...😉

Let me put it this way, I stumbled across the teamanandtech.com page a while ago and saw that it was a few years behind...so I contacted Smoke and he said that he had allready asked the people responsable for the page to plz update it, but nothing was happing. I thought man that sucked, so I copied the main page and changed it a bit...oh and updated it...😀 (try to do so once a week) I did this for fun and to have a place to send someone to who asked about TA. I never intended this to replace teamanandtech.com, so I honestly wasn't trying to take over.
The pc is a AMD K6-400...lol😀 I salvaged from work and wanted to put to good use. I'm almost finished with a P4 2.4 that will replace it...
Like I said this was for the fun of it and I will continue to update the page, but, plz feel free to use the page in any way you like, I really don't mind, and I would gladly help out in any way possible with the new site! 😉
 
Originally posted by: GeoffS
heh... I have no intention of reinventing the wheel... if there's stuff out there that can be used, I'm all for it.

As far as mirroring is concerned, I think that's a great idea too... mirroring the code is easy... mirroring the data is maybe not as easy... unless we're talking about having all of the update processes running on two separate boxes...

jliechty Having noted what you *don't* want it to look like, do you have some examples of what you *would* like to see?

Geoff
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I would hate to see you go to more work than necessary to make a whole CMS when there are solutions out there that could be put to use quite nicely. I've looked at Mambo and Typo3 recently when considering a CMS for an organizational site that I currently manage using manual "content management" (i.e. I make the changes to the XHTML files, and upload the content to the server via FTP 😉).

Both are appealing, but Typo3 seems to be the more powerful of the two, though they recommend in one place that it's best to have a dedicated server for it (I'm sure it could share a server with the stats scripts, they were just cautioning against running it on a shared webhosting account like what my site is hosted on - which is a pity because otherwise I would have loved to use T3 except for that). 🙁

Either of these CMSes seem to be reasonably theme-able, so we could go the route of making the site look pretty much like the current one except with many small but fine improvements that add up to make the new version a much better site than the old (a la amdxborg), or we could try something quite a bit different (for which I'm throwing together a mock-up right now). Or whatever. Please be aware that I won't be offended in the least if my design is rejected, as I have no delusions about my [lack of] abilities as a web designer... Amdxborg has done a fine job with a redesign in keeping with tradition, and if the majority prefers that, I'm all for it.

Edit: I noticed on the Team AnandTech site, that they use a logo with the "AnandTech" in the "offical" font and style. Of course, I suppose this is probably because so-and-so who runs the site is friends with Anand from Way Back When... I have my doubts that we could get away with using the same logo on the new revised site without seeing a C&D letter all too soon. I bring up this point simply to see what the community thinks about it. This is one area where I could possibly be of help, given that a redesigned logo created by yours truly in Illustrator would probably be of slightly higher quality than a web site template from the same source. 😱
 
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