[Webteam] Demo of squeak.org on Aida/Scribo ready

Janko Mivšek janko.mivsek at eranova.si
Fri Mar 21 14:31:23 UTC 2008


Hello all,

Two news on demo:

   1. For those behind firewalls it is also accessible on default
      port 80:

	http://squeaksite.aidaweb.si/

   2. RSS feed from news.squeak.org is now alive, including proper
      international support.

Best regards
Janko


Jason Rogers wrote:
> That site isn't coming up for me.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek at eranova.si> wrote:
>> karl wrote:
>>  > Looks good. The editing looks familiar with the common widgets from
>>  > editors  and powerful enough for the needs of the Squeak web site.
>>
>>  Yes, we are using TinyMCE for editor and it is really nice.
>>
>>
>>  > I have a few questions:
>>  > Do you have external persistency so we can save space on the server ?
>>
>>  For pictures currently, while other needs to be ported/supported yet.
>>  But image will also be snapshoted from time to time (probably every
>>  hour) and every day it should be backed up somewhere. But that's about
>>  50M or so, so 2x50M=100M, that's not much? I can also provide a
>>  "disaster recovery" location for that content and we can rsync every day
>>  there.
>>
>>
>>  > How is content in the side boxes edited ?
>>
>>  Currently as pure HTML, but that needs to be yet improved. Currently
>>  only admin has edit rights for that.
>>
>>  > Is the interface translated ?
>>
>>  Yes, just I need to detect language better. In an hour or so ...
>>
>>
>>
>>  Janko
>>
>>  > Janko Mivšek wrote:
>>  >> Dear Squeakers,
>>  >>
>>  >> Demo of new squeak.org on http://squeaksite.aidaweb.si:9000 has now
>>  >> also more public editing rights. Just login as:
>>  >>
>>  >>     demo/demo
>>  >>
>>  >> ...and you should have Edit link up-right or edit icon below central
>>  >> text. Clicking on it should open a WYSIWYG editor of content.
>>  >>
>>  >> If you'll got a message "Please wait, page is currently locked by
>>  >> user: Demo user", then someone else is just editing that page. Wait
>>  >> for message: "Page is now released and ready to edit" or go back and
>>  >> select other page and try editing it.. Also, editing on IE6 is not
>>  >> supported yet, while IE7 is.
>>  >>
>>  >> Try also uploading some image in below box, then simply drag it into
>>  >> the text and resize it by dragging borders. Simply isn't it?
>>  >>
>>  >> That's it, I think you can now see how easy is to maintain Scribo
>>  >> based website and therefore I think it will also be easy to delegate
>>  >> some maintenance duties to broader public. Of course there are still
>>  >> other things to finish like RSS reader etc etc, soon, a day or two...
>>  >>
>>  >> I hope that now you are convinced that with Aida/Scribo and vibrant
>>  >> community behind which is able to deliver, a Squeak website would be
>>  >> in safe hands and that you'll accept my offer.
>>  >>
>>  >> Best regards
>>  >> Janko
>>  >>
>>  >>
>>  >> Janko Mivšek wrote:
>>  >>> Dear Squeakers,
>>  >>>
>>  >>> As promised I prepared a demo of current Squeak website migrated to
>>  >>> Aida/Scribo CMS. I migrated both design and first level of content to
>>  >>> show, how flexible is Scribo in dealing with both different design
>>  >>> and things like Url format in case of SmallWiki. You can see demo here:
>>  >>>
>>  >>>     http://squeaksite.aidaweb.si:9000
>>  >>>
>>  >>> Demo is actually pretty complete, what is still missing is a dynamic
>>  >>> tree  menu on the left (currently is static) and some other minor
>>  >>> things. In any case with this demo I convinced even myself that
>>  >>> moving Squeak website is definitively possible and it will open
>>  >>> further improvements on content, spreading authoring to more people,
>>  >>> adding more dynamic content, etc etc.
>>  >>>
>>  >>> I hope that you are now a bit more convinced that two days ago...:)
>>  >>>
>>  >>> Best regards
>>  >>> Janko
>>  >>>
>>  >>>
>>  >>
>>  >
>>  >
>>
>>  --
>>  Janko Mivšek
>>  Svetovalec za informatiko
>>  Eranova d.o.o.
>>  Ljubljana, Slovenija
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>>
>>
> 
> 
> 

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Janko Mivšek
Svetovalec za informatiko
Eranova d.o.o.
Ljubljana, Slovenija
www.eranova.si
tel:  01 514 22 55
faks: 01 514 22 56
gsm: 031 674 565


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