Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Web Master Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.problems.internet Subject: Web site /newsgroup comments Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 18:50:49 +0100 Organization: SCEE Lines: 80 Message-ID: <3343EDF9.1699@interactive.sony.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: chuka.playstation.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) CC: ps_yaroze@interactive.sony.com >1) Are you expiring articles on the newsgroups, or are you going to be storing the lot? Will there be a compilation of FAQs etc. Articles never expire - they are useful as a back catalogue of information. They are also searchable via the Web site which makes them extremely useful. We will be archiving the newsgroups every month - they will be stored in seperate archive files for every month and searchable via the Web site - just as if they were still active. The only difference is that they won't be clogging up your news reader. So far there hasn't been much traffic - or not yet enough to warrant an archive - we have only been going two months and there is still a backlog of orders to get through. When we start archiving we'll announce it in the newsgroup anounce and on the Web site (News section). FAQs? Well, we might do, if there is a need. At the moment everyone is feeling their way and learning, pointing out what info is missing, (like this stuff from the new members section, for example) so we won't get a good idea of the most important questions for a while. >2) Would it be better to have a site last updated time, and also some Well. whenever anything is added to or changed on the site it is put in the What's new section with the date that it was added. I could add latest update to the first page too but you would only need to check in the Whats New Section to find out what has been changed? I have just checked the Demos area - there are a couple of Demos that were added and sneaked passed the 'What's New' section of the Web site and the RSD tool in Utils and ctype.c in the utils...blimey all these have sneaked through. We'll try to avoid that in future. The only other thing which isn't in the What's news section is the Members Home Pages.... >sort of order to the home web page index. eg. chronological >addition, or by alphabetical order. This is because the site will >become unwieldy, and difficult to browse through once there are >larger numbers of people on the site. They are in chronological order - with the date that they were last registered. If you change something in your Home Page you can re-register it - with a new description. Just use the Registration form as you did last time. >3) When you reference something on the site (eg. with the posting of the alpha RSDtool) should we explicitly reference the location.eg. it is available at >http://www.playstation.co.uk/yaroze/ftp/utils/graphic/rsdtool/rsdtool.e>xe.gz > which is directly clickable by most browsers. yep good point. I think that everyone does, normally - you having a dig at a recent posting from here :-) >4) Can we have the ftp demos available through a normal FTP session? > Maybe a symlink through to the normal FTP areas for members? I can > go off and download a bunch of files in one go then. This might be possible -> we need to check the security for this (you know how it is - big companies get wierd about FTP access to Servers). Taken it 'on board' (pure big company speak :-). >5) Out of interest why are some of the files being gzipped when they > can't be compressed any further, so meaning we have to go through > an additional stage? Do you mean files that can't be compressed are being passed through the compression util? This is an automatic process - if you set Winzip up to decompress as it saves it takes all the tedium out of getting the demos and then decompressing it. ..it's taken 'on board' Thanks for your comments. Laura