quote: Originally posted by Beör on 09-09-2000 06:15 AM As a newcomer I would like to suggest an important feature to be added to the website. Add a search feature. There is a lot of information, and for a newbie it can be very difficult to know where to find a particular piece of information.

This would be useful, I'll look into this.

quote: I also think that it might be nice to have a thread in the forum, solely dedicated to anouncing updates to the website

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank both Dom and Paul for their long and distinguished service to Clash. Their site gave a serious boost to the project. I think it will turn out to have been one of the critical contributions toward Clash's eventual success! I personally greatly appreciate all the work that they have done, and wish them the best of luck!

We actually had a "Web site requests" thread when the former web page guys were actively working. Might I suggest we make a thread "Web Site News & Requests" so it can fulfill two functions. If it gets too much trafic you could always split them.

For the search facility, would Apolyton mind if we used CGI for this bit?

Everyone,

Why don't you email Markos and ask him? I think it should be ok. Also, see if he has any suggestions. He didn't the last go-around, but that was many months ago.

Yeah I think Beör is right. But I think a page search is generally more useful, since by keywords you can almost guess at where to go from the site structure itself. The truth is, we'll take what we can get!

The coder listed for the tech model is someone I've never heard of. Presumably he retired before Garth, who has also left.

The "current members" list includes over a dozen people I've never even heard of, and I've been following the project for almost a year.

Many other people listed have also retired in the past year.

F_Smith is listed as an inactive member!

I have another suggestion for the web page:
A chategorised link library of the contributors' favourite references. Somehow when I first looked at the web page I was very impressed, but it did cross my mind that some of the modelling seemed to take place in a vacuum. I am quite sure that this is not true, so why not give everybody else a chance to study the references.

Some suggested chategories

(I daren't say both - again )

I guess a single page would be easier to maintain, and if a link is really important at a particular point in a model, nothing will prevent the lead from putting a link in the text.