Rebuilding A Website With Modern Tools 2
Joe writes: "Here's the 4th installment in a very good series of articles where Daniel Robbins( President/CEO, Gentoo Technologies ) shares his experiences as he redesigns the Gentoo Linux Web site using technologies like XML, XSLT, and Python. This article completes the conversion to XML/XSLT, fixes a host of Netscape 4.x browser compatibility bugs, and adds an auto-generated XML Changelog to the site." This is a pretty cool tutorial, especially in combination with the preceding articles -- but please don't let you site become unreadable to those on text-only browsers! :)
another one bites the dust (Score:2)
Content is King, load time is Queen, and tech is Fart, the messanger boy.
Want to indulge your urge to play with the tech backing your website, fine, have fun and more power too you for having the courage to follow your curiousity. But if your goal is giving your users information and maybe fostering some sort of community, stable proven and maybe even boring tech is the way to go. Look at slashdot. None of the tech is really exciting, and at least with the first version of slashcode, it was somewhat shoddily implemented at that[1]. Still, not many sites can claim almost half a million active user accounts, at least sites without 'yahoo.com' or 'msn.com' in their fqdn.
[0] not to sound holier-than-thou, I'v been way guilty of this too
[1]the perl is just nasty in the codebase I've seen. rotten nasty.