Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 11:44:15 -0500
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: FAQ Site More Info
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We're hoping that each person that has content will step forward and post
their content to the FAQ site.
Many List members currently have their own web pages with excellent
content that we'd like to incorporate into this site.
If each member will search the archives and clean their own posts and
submit them as text pages it will be a big help.
In addition we're hoping to have the full site in a ZIP format that List
Members can download and burn a CD on. Some have requested this.
If the site is properly prepared you should just type in the part number
of your water pump and get all relevant FAQ and Tips and Tricks in one
search procedure.
The Front Index will be based on the Bentleys Index so it could be
searched that way as well if the page submitted has the Bentley section
noted on the page.
I've set up a temporary site with 2 megs of space that will shrink very
quickly with the posting of pictures with the information pages.
Ultimately we'll need about three gigs of web space.
The concept of FAQ for newbies and even old hands using information from
the Vanagon archives isn't supposed to effect the standard Vanagon List
Site. Hopefully it'll just clean the bull shit from the archives and give
users the freedom to avoid my sarcastic humor as well as the vendor
bashing, racist bashing and chit chat that makes searching the Vanagon
archives so difficult.
The basic instructions, as I perceive them, are at the new temporary
site.
All things are subject to change and I'll gladly accept any changes that
are submitted.
I'll admit that there are many possible improvements to what I've
suggested and started rolling on, I'm willing to listen and work with all
interested parties.
Brent has suggested this and I must agree with him:
This gets tricky if there is a letter designator at the end. Many parts
searches will simply drop this last alpha character. I would suggest
that
it be used with or without a space, since a search for "251 407 361"
would
also turn up "251 407 361A"
In response it comes down to the user placing an * at the end of his part
number.
This should yield the proper search results.
Stan Wilder
On Tue, 04 Jun 2002 08:39:55 -0700 Alistair Bell <albell@uvic.ca> writes:
> Stan et al,
>
> I am a little unclear on the concept...
>
> Have you assigned subjects to contributors?
>
> and
>
> Are you proposing we layout the FAQ using the Bentley as a
> guide/format
> model? Its is unclear for the instruction page seems to indicate
> that but
> your example page does not.
>
>
>
>
> Alistair
>
>
>
> on 3/6/02 8:03 AM, Stan Wilder wrote:
>
> > The site below has some basic instructions for uploading and
> building
> > your contribution to the Vanagon FAQ site.
> >
> > http://www.blackhead.netfirms.com/www/example.htm
> >
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