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List:       kde-www
Subject:    KDE.ie goes live today
From:       "Barry O'Donovan" <barry.odonovan () kdemail ! net>
Date:       2005-01-06 0:47:36
Message-ID: 200501060047.40852.barry.odonovan () kdemail ! net
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Hello all and happy new year,

I wish to advise you all that Ireland's KDE website went live today 
(http://www.kde.ie/). It's purpose is to act as a focal point for Irish 
and Irish-based KDE developers, contributors, users and enthusiasts to 
promote continued development and communication and also to promote KDE 
in Ireland.

It's based on the kde.nl and kde.org.uk websites and, as can be seen on 
http://www.kde.ie/about.php, I've released the code as GPL. I _presume_ 
this conforms with kde.nl and I know it conforms with kde.org.uk. If I 
am mistaken here please let me know ASAP.

Some things that may be of interest to these lists:

- you may notice the banners on the top of the page. I have created 5 of 
them and they are displayed randomly. Each promotes a different KDE 
application and links to that applications web site. It's a simple 
rectangular image and a blank box is included in CVS. I am definitely 
not a graphics artist and if anyone wants to improve these for KDE.ie 
and other KDE websites in general then please do by all means. Contact 
me for any help or to set up a repository. I know this idea was bandyed 
about on one of these lists before; well here's the implementation.

- I hacked the code for the right side bar and _I think_ it looks 
better. In particular I increased the margin between the central text 
and the sidebar, I left-justified the news stories and I changed them 
to a <ul> environment so that the text lines up. I also removed the 
links from the headers and added them below the headers. Lastly, the 
lastRSS class hangs if the RSS files cannot be read (i.e. if 
dot.kde.org is unresponsive (and it often is)). Instead I set up a 
cronjob to 'wget' these files and the webpage just reads these local 
copies. This makes loading much faster and prevents the aforementioned 
hangs.

- the hot seat rotates randomly.

- it still needs content - in particular the list of Irish contributors 
and developers, the commercial section and the case studies. I've 
contacted my local LUG and will hopefully receive some content from 
them.


Any comments, feedback, etc welcomed.

Kind regards,
Barry

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Regards,
Barry O'Donovan
http://www.barryodonovan.com/
http://www.ihl.ucd.ie/	

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