[Radiance-dev] RadHub beta

[Axel Jacobs]

>> > First troubles, I tried with my site, changed the metatags (it's
>> > tricky, so it might not make your idea very popular) but it
>> didn't work:
>
> Indeed I looked into the procedure and stopped there because
> it will require some rewriting of source code (or in my case
> of a html generator) which could be quite a work for larger
> sites with pages for different topics.

How about if I alternatively scanned the page for something like
<p id="keywords">....</p> and
<p id="description">....</p>, in case there are no valid meta tags.

You could then hide the two paragraphs with your CSS.

> I understand the wish to allow only authorised people to submit
> new pages but wouldn't it be a bonus if others could submit
> interesting pages they found on there web searching tours?
> Perhaps these submits should be approved before they are allowed
> into the database. I expect, though, that for your scripts to
> work - and in fact the whole logic behind it - the presence of
> the META tags is required.

Well, yes and no is the answer. RadHub is meant to be
a) fully automated
b) indexable by keywords
c) ordered by popularity
d) community-driven

So somebody will have to sit down and think about the keywords. And who
would be better suited than the author of the submitting site?

With regards to submitting a 3rd party site, what I had in mind is that
people would get in touch with the author, and e-mail them a copy of The
Missing Manual cover page (See under Art Work), asking them nicely to have
their pages indexed.

Ours is still a fairly small community, and many people know one another
either personally or from the e-mails they exchange.

Axel