[web-team] Catching up (site maintenance)

[Mark Weisler]

On Wednesday 11 June 2008 14:52:15 Rick Moen wrote:
> Hi, I've been kept busy and not attending to site maintenance.  Sorry
> about that.  I note that http://www.svlug.org/installfest/ currently
> has:
>
>   The Regular Time
>
>   Third Saturdays, every single month.
>   11 am 'til 4 pm
>   For the next few months, that will be:
>
>   May 17, 2008
>
>
> See, this is _exactly_ why that page should always list the next several
> upcoming dates -- and that's what I always have done.  Someone on the
> Web Team recently (late April, early May) evidently decided otherwise,
> which predictably landed us in the current situation.  Bad.  Does
> everyone see why that's a bad idea?  I mentioned that fact on Volunteers
> when I saw the change in April/May, but nobody fixed it, and so here we
> are.  (Most recent edit per RCS was by Daniel.)
>
> Changed to:
>
>    The Regular Time
>
>    Third Saturdays, every single month.
>    11 am 'til 4 pm
>    For the next few months, that will be:
>
>    Sat., June 28th _(note one-time date change)_
>    Sat., July 19th
>    Sat., August 16th
>    Sat., September 20th
>
> ("em" tags, here, are rendered as underscores.)
>
> There's a tendency, in Web site maintenance, to forget to look at pages
> other than the front page.  (E.g., our front page notes the installfest
> one-time date change, but nobody checked the installfest page.)
> 'Course, if you have to concentrate your attention on just one page, the
> front one is the right one ;->  , but part of the problem is that other
> people link to sub-pages.  For example, on CABAL's posted schedule, I
> have an item saying that CABAL is cancelling the meeting it would
> normally have had on the 28th (4th Saturday), but you can attend SVLUG's
> installfest, instead.  Hyperlink on that reference goes to
> http://www.svlug.org/installfest/ -- which I happened to double-check,
> and thus found that it was _wrong_.
Rick,
Thanks for going through all this in detail and making corrections and 
suggestions.

I confess that I have been lax concerning the Installfest page because I 
thought the Installfest coordinator was going to update that page as a new 
venue was found with new details including times. I do see that your (Rick's) 
excellent checklist (http://www.svlug.org/teams/web-team.php) reminds us to 
update the Installfest page. I'll do that and/or verify postings with the 
Installfest coordinator as I update pages after meetings.

>
>
> (Following notes are written as I progress through the Previous Meetings
> page, fixing entries going back to July 2007.)
>
> Hmm, looking at http://www.svlug.org/prevmeet.php, I see _lots_ of
> unclosed "td" and "tr" tags, for the last few months.  I urge being
> really careful with table tags, because slipping in that area can
> turn the whole page into mush.  (This has happened in the past.)
OK. I'll see if I can be more careful about tags.
I'll make a test page or two and see what I can learn and correct.
If using a tool like Nvu to edit html pages is recommended over a simple text 
editor like vim please let me know.

When I updated events.html a few days ago I found it in a checked-out state 
and had to override that to make my updates. So, again, please complete work 
and check it back in to avoid confusion.
>
> For the same reason, it's extremely helpful to be systematic about
> indentation and proper use of whitespace.  I've gone back and re-edited
> quite a few months' entries, to fix that -- back to last July.  That
> includes re-flowing paragraph texts, introducing paragraph breaks
> where they were badly needed, and correcting punctuation,
> capitalisation (e.g., "WINE", not "Wine"), spelling, and grammar.
> (Remember, these guys' corporate PR departments often write really bad
> English.  We're not obliged to just reprint that stuff with errors
> unfixed -- and we shouldn't.  It makes _us_ look bad.)
...snip...



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Mark Weisler      
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