Polishing D - suggestions and comments

[Walter Bright]

I'm sure it is easy for someone who has done a lot of this stuff. But 
it's all new to me.

Right now, the pages are all generated from Ddoc source files according 
to macros. Redoing the macros and style sheets would transform the site 
without needing to rewrite any of the content.

Putting user content on there is another problem, though, because 
someone would have to regularly cull the spam and vandalism from it.

The "archives" pages are all generated by a custom D program that reads 
the newsgroup files and generates the corresponding html page.

Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
> Speaking as a professional at what you're talking about, there's not a 
> chance it would.
> 
> I will say that the company I work for would ask no less than $40k to do 
> a site like digitalmars.com/d, but that's still only 400 hours of work 
> (give or take.)  After that you're normally talking about it reading a 
> database, files or protocols from other softwares, or even flat files 
> for those who like that.... and that is something anyone can do.
> 
> Even if it did require a part time, or even full time, position in 
> itself - if that's what D needs, why is that a problem?  I can guarantee 
> you that you'll find enough volunteers if you're worried about cost.
> 
> If you're worried about efficiency, I've worked on stuff that've gone on 
> ABC's website etc., and I can promise you this is a solved problem as 
> well.  Sure, it has to be done right, but this is true of anything.
> 
> Just my opinion.
> 
> -[Unknown]
> 
> 
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Unknown W. Brackets Wrote:
>>> As a side note, I work for a web company, and we use PHP primarily
>>> - which language I do like.  But it would be cool to see D eat its
>>> own dogfood here, and host the website on its own, lightweight
>>> webserver with D-coded dynamic pages.  This wouldn't be hard to
>>> write at all, and would really show the versatility of D (as well
>>> as efficiency, assuming it handled load well.)  Maybe not
>>> practically the best, though.
>>
>> The web pages are all static. Not that they have to be, but doing a 
>> dynamically generated site the size of digitalmars.com would probably 
>> be a full time job in itself.