On 16 Dec 2008 at 21:23, N Cross wrote:

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> Is it the website w/the stick dude w/the tie on the tasteful green shirt?

Bears a striking resemblance to Zahn's site, don't you think?

I don't remember what the site looked like before, but found some stuff via
Google:
http://www.zahnmcclarnon.com/zcms/index.php

Is that what it looked like? If so, they're apparently trying to switch from one
content management solution to another. It also looke like something's gone
wrong. I tried creating an account on the old site, and I got error messages
pointing to the database either not working, or being inaccessible due to
another error.

So I'm guessing they've had to start over with a new database. And that
means the content will be missing until they can get it added somehow. If
they didn't recover the database, a lot of the old content is gone for good.
The multimedia content should be there somewhere, but digging it out and
putting it back into context might take a while.

Remember, I'm not involved in this project, I'm just theorizing based on what
I'm seeing. Stuff happens, and sometimes you have to start over and it can
be a painful process.

Wordpress is a good choice for a website today. With the right template, it
looks just like a "real" website. If I were Zahn and his team, I'd look for
another template, or modify the heck out of the one he's got there. Problem
is of course that in order to modify a template you need to understand a little
bit of CSS, PHP and HTML.

I'll post a comment. I'm sure they'll catch it in the moderation queue and
read it there instead of approving it - that's fine.