Recoded Website!

[Kevin M Stange]

Peter Ruibal wrote:
> 
> On 7/18/07, *Luke Schierer* <lschiere at pidgin.im
> <mailto:lschiere at pidgin.im>> wrote:
> 
>     On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 12:34:19PM -0500, Kevin M Stange wrote:
>     > Sean Egan wrote:
>     > > On 7/18/07, Luke Schierer <lschiere at pidgin.im
>     <mailto:lschiere at pidgin.im>> wrote:
>     > >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:11:57AM -0500, Kevin M Stange wrote:
>     > >>> I have gotten through all the existing web site pages and recoded
>     > >>> everything without the CMS and pushed it into the branch
>     "im.pidgin.www"
>     > >> awesome.
>     > >
>     > > CCing Joe, whom I'm not sure is on this list or not. Last I heard he
>     > > was also re-doing the site to work with Wordpress. The main thread
>     > > about this started at
>     > > http://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/2007-July/001785.html
>     > >
>     > > Kevin, will you be able to implement authorize.net
>     <http://authorize.net>'s credit card
>     > > authentication protocol? We wound up with a sort of circular problem
>     > > where it wasn't feasible to forward with ezpublish because we can't
>     > > get it to run at the volume we need it to on homing.pidgin.im
>     <http://homing.pidgin.im>, and we
>     > > don't want to invest in another server until we have an idea of how
>     > > much income we'll be taking in on donations, and we can't turn
>     > > donations on, because we can't turn on ezpublish.
>     > >
>     >
>     > I don't see why not.  We work with Authorize.net
>     <http://Authorize.net> at work, so I should be
>     > able to talk to some people that integrate some of our software
>     with it
>     > and/or already know how to do it, as well as get ahold of any relevant
>     > documentation.
>     >
>     > I mainly started working on this because I got limited "go"
>     feedback and
>     > no "don't go" feedback, so I just want to see if I should continue in
>     > this direction or if you would rather go for the Wordpress-ization
>     > method.  I really, really don't like CMS systems, so I still vote
>     for my
>     > way, and so far this site I coded is smaller and more efficient than
>     > what the current CMS created and it should be trivial to add
>     sections or
>     > make changes, plus we can keep track of changes via MTN.
>     >
>     > Kevin
> 
>     Smaller, more efficient, and mtn are all key wins from my perspective.
>     While I like wordpress, I do not recall seeing anything in it that would
>     make handling authorize.net <http://authorize.net> easier.  
> 
> 
> It sounds like you guys are leaning away from WP anyway, but if you don't:
> 
> Wordpress Cart Plugin:
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpcart/
> 
> Wordpress Cart Authorize.net <http://Authorize.net> support Plugin:
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpc-pay-authorizenet/

I can probably adapt that code to our needs anyway. :)

Kevin

> 
>     That would likely be a body of php
>     code that could be moved to a non-wordpress site.  Wordpress would
>     certainly be a significant step up from our current confusing CMS, but I
>     still do not understand the real need to use any CMS at all.
> 
>     luke
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