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Hi Greg- Updating the profiles section of LD is a pretty big priority for me. Chris Chovit was great in designing the original version, but that was over 6 years ago and he has not been available for doing updates since. There have been many features discussed here over the years that we want to add. I've tried many many times to get him or somebody else to help out with a new version, without luck. Finally Doug came along a few months ago and it seemed like we might finally get somewhere. It slowed down a lot though because I was too busy at the time to keep up with it. At the moment I have time for it, so this is a good point to finally do this! I'm glad that you are interested in helping and motivated about this project. Some key initial points: - I'm going to require that the current profile data be maintained. It is fine to remove the completely dead entries, but there is too much good stuff there to throw it away. It takes a long time to build something like that. Many people like having their entries on the page, even if they haven't been around the list for years or have never been on the list at all. They still come back to the profiles and update them once in a while. I don't want to lose that data. Asking on the list for people to send you info will only get a tiny fraction of the LD community to respond. - It's great if you and Doug can help out with administering the section. In the end though, I know from hard experience that I am the one who will likely be maintaining it. So the management aspects of the page have to be something that works for me. Among those: there cannot be human intervention required for people to create their entries and make updates. That has to be something people do themselves. The administration aspect should be a higher level of fixing occasional problems or some maintenance here and there. anyway, I'll look at some of the other mails and try to put some other ideas into it later on today. kim At 03:53 PM 8/30/2003, Greg Kucharo wrote: > I was just going to put it up on my Mac.com site, but having it at the > LD site would obviously be better. Let me get the list together first, > then we can decide where an appropriate place for it is. I imagined that > having people send me their URLs would guarantee that the info is > current, rather than cull info from the profiles. > > >On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 03:42 PM, Kim Flint wrote: > >>would you be interested in helping with the Looper's Delight site in >this >>regard? If the profiles section where people already put their music >>URL's could be improved for easier navigation, maybe you can do the >>update for it? Or add some other section for the site if that's what is >needed? >> >>I do this whole thing for you guys, but I really can't do it all by >myself! >> >>kim >> >>At 03:14 PM 8/30/2003, Greg Kucharo wrote: >>> I've been thinking of putting up a centralized website that points >to >>> everyone's currently available CD's and online music. Posting it to >the >>> list is great, but it probably gets lost in the noise and folks have >to >>> troll the archives to find stuff. The LD website has everyone's >>> profiles and the archives, but having to pick through all that for >>> downloads/purchase is tough. >>> >>>Would anyone find this useful, if for no other reason than a easy to >>>point at promotional device? >> >>______________________________________________________________________ >>Kim Flint | Looper's Delight >>kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com