RE: THE Postgres WEB SITE

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Dave Page wrote:

> I agree that the site does need better links to software and related
> projects. I've just had a look at the site to remind myself, and it is very
> difficult to find things (as I recall I previously used to look at the
> listing of the additional software on the distribution CD if I wanted to
> know what else was out there).

*hang head* that's what I've always done too :)

> The third section is one I would be interested in. My staff and I are
> writing software for PostgreSQL that maybe of use to others, and I'm sure
> others must be doing the same (either commercial or open source - in fact if
> any has any financial ledgers...). I appreciate that the User Gallery is
> (intended as) a listing of what PostgreSQL is being used for/with, but
> perhaps a more moderated list of what people can actually download or buy
> would attract more potential users.

Jeff has been working on cleaning up the User Gallery listing to get rid
of the cruft...but...

If I were to sit down this weekend and write up an "Applications" listings
page, what fields should be included?  This is the biggest problem I have
with doing this, I never know what all should be included :(

If someone wants to make me a form that looks good and is complete, I'll
do up the backend coding and setup the databases for this...I can write
code, but I'm *terrible* at doing visuals ...

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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Byron Nikolaidis [mailto:byron.nikolaidis@home.com]
> > Sent: 12 November 1999 01:03
> > To: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
> > Cc: The Hermit Hacker; Thomas Lockhart; Peter Mount; Dave Page
> > Subject: THE Postgres WEB SITE
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Is it just me, or is it very difficult to find things on the Postgres
> > web site??
> > 
> > For example, I would like to download Pgaccess, or PgAdmin, 
> > or the JDBC
> > driver, yet there are no links that I can find to these things on the
> > web site?
> > 
> > If a person needs the odbc or jdbc driver, or *ANY* interface to the
> > Postgres database, one would think he should be able to find it (or
> > links to it) from the main Postgres site, right?   
> > 
> > Why put people through the aggravation of trying to hunt down drivers
> > and so forth?  We do want to attract users don't we?
> > 
> > I get at least 3 or 4 emails a day asking where the odbc driver is??? 
> > Usually it reads something like this one that I just got:
> > 
> > "Where can I get the latest Postgres ODBC client for windows? 
> > looked on
> > the 
> > website and only found linux binaries and source."
> > 
> > What's up with that?
> > 
> > Byron
> > 
> 

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