Re: Consultants/support company list - Mailing list pgsql-www

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 17:37, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >> A preview of what it looks like right now, with just two companies
> >> copied over from the old one, can be seen at
> >> http://magnus-master.pgadmin.org/support/professional.
> >Please don't use
> >> that form, it currentlyi sends broken mails to my personal
> >address ;-)
> >> You can view it, but don't submit it. Thanks.
> >>
> >> If the list grows really large, it should probaly be split into
> >> different pages. But we'll get there later :-)
> >>
> >> I have the edit pages done as well, but no good place to put
> >them up for
> >> show. But the form is basically the same.
> >>
> >>
> >> My two questions:
> >> 1) Does this look good enough? Anything needs changing?
> >>
> >
> >The company descriptions are too tall... several regions will have
> >dozens of companies, how far down will people have to scroll?  I think
> >you better plan for large lists now rather than think you can add it
> >later.
>
> Got any ideas on how? Make each company get their own page? That'll lead
> to a whole lot of clicking. Or do you think it'll be enough to give each
> region it's own page?
>

Can we cut down on cellspacing and cellpadding at all?

>
> >> 2) What should we do about the old onesv (currently on techdocs at
> >> http://magnus-master.pgadmin.org/admin/consultants.php). Our
> >options are
> >> to either copy them all over, or to just ask the people to re-submit
> >> them. I'm not sure how up-to-date that list is. If it's not
> >up-to-date,
> >> or there is at least a serious risk that it's not, it might
> >be better to
> >> start from a clean sheet (we can of course send a mail to those
> >> companies that list their contact addresses).
> >>
> >
> >I think this is fine... we could get maybe a 1/2 dozen companies to
> >populate it at first... test it out, and then send email to the rest
> >where possible.  I can put a redirect on techdocs to point to the new
> >page, and provide disclaimer about things being up to date.
>
> Which is fine? Keep the list we have now, or start from clean?
>

Start clean... I'll import a few from the old list and the pending
requests (got 3 or 4) so we can play a little bit with it once it's all
committed in and running live... after that I can go through and email
anyone on the old list to reenter their info.


> BTW, as of a couple of hours ago, the same system (more or less) also
> handles the listings of hosting companies. Same question applies there.
>

Yep... same answers apply too ;-)

> >Otherwise a very nice start!
>
> Thanks!
> I certainly learned a bit more abuot the templating and forms ;-)
>

Scary isn't it?

Robert Treat
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