Granted, Dreamweaver ****s with code (wouldn't know about MX, not rich enough for a new version of
anything these days). However, does that really interfere with anything important? I've never seen an irreparable problem with the code, and if I did I'd just go into Notepad and correct it, simple as that. HTML doesn't
get very complex, which is how I managed to learn it in my spare time and not C.
And my distinction is between "will have" and need. Yeah, if you're gonna have dynamic updating, each person will have to upload their stuff individually, so twenty users updating is twenty updates. If you don't
have the dynamic update because we're not implementing it yet, then ya compile all the stuff over the day, modify the pages with the new table entries, and update it all at once- one update a day, probably more like every other day since stuff doesn't move very fast around here anymore. Once a day is plenty until a better solution comes- it's a hell of a lot more than anyone gets their stuff up now, and I don't think the world will end if someone doesn't have their mod up precisely 50 seconds after they request it- people'll just swing by the next day and find it if they missed it.
You're still thinking of this with the assumption that it's an HTML replacement for the dynamic page. It's not- it's something to hold us over and get the page actually working until it is finished- which could be weeks, months, or years from now. There's simply no point in sitting, twiddling our thumbs, and letting FreeSpace (and hence HLP) get even older and deader until then. To anyone outside of the community, this is a
dead site. There is nothing going on out there. So all the benefit in the world we could get from, say, the HOTU site is nothing, because the newbies come here for new stuff, see it hasn't been updated in around two years, and leave. Having a regularly updated version of the site in HTML
until this dynamic code materializes doesn't hurt anything in the slightest. So... what's the problem, then? SSI code can be left as is or replaced with standard frames and the like, if nobody wants to mess with it (
I don't, and you obviously don't). The news section, the only thing that would actually suffer a material disadvantage from lack of dynamic scripting (and the only thing that ever gets updated) can be left as is. Stuff like the art and mods can be slapped on in seconds with Dreamweaver (or Notepad), and uploaded in even less time. And then, when and if the dynamic page is finished, it can replace the updated site just as easily as the one that exists there now. There's no problem with the admins not "getting" HTML- if they or you don't wanna update the page, there are plenty of people willing to keep the community maintained, and in fact have been clamoring to do so for years. There's no problem with over-complex coding issues with the old site- if they prove restrictive, they can be replaced in no time flat. So... what, exactly?
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