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New www.perl.org Introduced

posted by ziggy on 2003.07.09 17:00   

Robrt writes "Ask, Lisa, and I are proud to announce the new www.perl.org. A complete redesign, aiming to be the premier perl portal."

• keeping up with the onions

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  by nicholas (3034) <nwc10+useperl@colon.colondot.net> on 2003.07.09 17:29 (#21895)
  ( http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/ | Last Journal: 2006.09.09 6:49 )

  Nice. Good work

  But looking at its headlines I see that for use.perl it says use.perl Project Ponie: Perl On New Internals Engine. That's sooooooo yesterday. :-)

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• A few suggestions

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  by SuperCruncher (3330) on 2003.07.09 18:41 (#21904)

  In general, the web site looks pretty good, but I've got a few suggestions, as I had when I posted about the new Perl Foundation web site [perl.org].

  • No page title supplied in the <title> tag. Less likely to get a good search engine rating and users will have to manually type a name in when they bookmark the page.
  • Acronyms not written in all uppercase, e.g. nntp, cgi, pdf and so on.
  • Grammar nazis might disagree with me, but I think that the first entry under each main heading (e.g. "About Perl", "Get Perl") should have an initial capital.
  • Again, I might be wrong about this but when you're writing the name of a publication where the title includes 'The', the 'the' should be written with an initial capital, e.g. 'The Perl Journal'. But again, I might be wrong.
  • What happened to the good fast facts [archive.org] page on the previous site design?

  If anyone wants my help on the site (so I'm not accused of complaining and not offering any help), please let me know. Just another idea as a closing thought: what about copying Python's (yes, I did say copying something from Python!) Python in Business [python-in-business.org] idea? A sleek site might help clueless mangers adopt Perl, but maybe I'm being too optimistic.

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  • Re:A few suggestions by inkdroid (Score:2) 2003.07.09 19:23
    • Re:A few suggestions by TeeJay (Score:2) 2003.07.10 6:33
      • Re:A few suggestions by delegatrix (Score:2) 2003.07.11 12:44
  • Re:A few suggestions by podmaster (Score:1) 2003.07.10 6:54
    • Re:A few suggestions by koschei (Score:1) 2003.07.10 9:39
      • Re:A few suggestions by podmaster (Score:1) 2003.07.14 22:34
        • Re:A few suggestions by koschei (Score:1) 2003.07.14 23:37
    • Re:A few suggestions by vek (Score:2) 2003.07.10 9:52
    • Re:A few suggestions by ask (Score:2) 2003.07.13 7:03
  • Re:A few suggestions by Robrt (Score:1) 2003.07.12 21:31
  • Re:A few suggestions by delegatrix (Score:2) 2003.07.14 8:17
• JIT

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  by Juerd (1796) on 2003.07.10 3:40 (#21912)
  ( http://juerd.nl/ )

  Only yesterday I decided to write a meditation on PerlMonks about perl.org and how it didn't make Perl look good, etcetera.
  
  I like the new perl.org. Good work!

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• Looks good, but...

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  by phraktyl (3493) on 2003.07.10 12:52 (#21938)

  The one thing I have to address is that the page width is static. So, for those of us who use a wide browser, the new page only uses the left half of the window. In addition to not using the screen real estate, this causes issues with printing as well.

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  • Re:Looks good, but... by delegatrix (Score:2) 2003.07.11 12:45
• DNS

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  by bart (450) <bart.lateur@pandora.be> on 2003.07.10 20:45 (#21967)
  ( Last Journal: 2006.09.10 10:40 )

  Nice but... it'd be nicer still if a simple link to perl.org [perl.org] didn't give me a DNS error... but instead showed the site. After all, that is the name you use to refer to the site, no?

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  • Re:DNS by Robrt (Score:1) 2003.07.12 21:28
    • Re:DNS by koschei (Score:1) 2003.07.14 23:43
• Links to Online Tutorials

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  by Shlomi Fish (918) <shlomif@iglu.org.il> on 2003.07.19 16:05 (#22274)
  ( http://www.shlomifish.org/ | Last Journal: 2006.09.10 11:44 )

  There aren't too many links to online tutorials, but there should be.

  I could also use a link to http://perl-begin.berlios.de/ [berlios.de]

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