From maintainers-request at octave dot org Tue Jan 31 14:13:57 2006
Subject: Re: Octave web pages
From: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
CC: jbaylor at bConverged dot com,         "'octave maintainers mailing list'" <maintainers@octave.org>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:05:28 -0600

John W. Eaton wrote:

>On 31-Jan-2006, Jeff Baylor wrote:
>
>| I have experience with CSS and could lend a hand with this.  If PHP is
>| supported, I would also be willing to convert the current site to PHP
>| using a single header and footer file.  This could also be done with
>| JavaScript if PHP is not supported.
>
>My understanding is that PHP is not currently supported on savannah
>and dynamic content is discouraged due to server limitations.
>
>http://savannah.gnu.org/faq/?group_id=5802&question=Homepage_-_Are_PHP_and_MySQL_available.txt
>
>jwe
>  
>

That's too bad--it would definitely make it easier to support a common 
menu on all of the pages. Even though the look and feel can be 
maintained with CSS, maybe it would make sense to keep some kind of 
make-oriented scheme for re-generating the pages.  A couple of months 
ago I started work on a CSS-based update to the octave home page. I put 
the result here for anyone interested:
http://webpages.charter.net/qspencer/octave/

-Quentin