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Originally Posted by Ricky2443
I understand that you may want to have access to address and phone numbers, ok but thats like 10 people on the team, a cell phone can handle that. Forums ok, but even then is there really that much inter team communication that a forum on every site is necessary. I've been having this argument with my team captain for the past 2 years, our team is a maximum of 10 people a couple of which actually work, I do not see the reason of wasting time and resources on coding interfaces with a database so that 5 people can post messages. Is it not more direct to just instant message a person, those get my attention faster than a forum on my website.
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Yes, there are other alternatives to using a login system on a website to share information, but many of these require at least one other person. If you want to email, text, or call someone else to get information, what if that person is sick, at school/work, or on vacation? You're out of luck.
Right now I am totally redoing my team's website to use MySQL databases with a custom-built Content Management System. Up until this past season, I didn't really need a CMS, as I did everything in just plain XHTML and CSS. But when I wanted to change the layout and style of the website for the 2006 season, it took me six weeks - working for several hours a day - to update a majority of the pages. (Google says it found 372 pages on
team228.org, excluding the forums and any PDFs it cached. So yeah, updating that took quite a while.
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So for my team, our new 2007 site will have a login system to ease the content management. When I want to add a new photo gallery, it will be a lot easier to just FTP up the images, and add all the info to the database, and let the PHP-backend do all the work of creating the photo gallery. If I want to add a new news article to the homepage, it will be as easy as posting this message to ChiefDelphi.
So that's my main reason for switching over to a database-driven "login system". It's not to impress judges, it's to ease my workload so I can get even more content online faster during the time-constricted build season, because other things like finishing the robot before ship date carry more weight.
Calm down, we're not here to "rip your site to shreds".
ChiefDelphi is a wonderful resource to share information and knowledge while having a good discussion, not to rip one's ideas to shreds or start flame wars.