[MLA] Robin and our new site....

[Bob Katz]

Hi guys! Happy post-Thanksgiving! cc to Robin Reumers.

I've met with Robin and we have a very good mechanism for upgrading and 
moving the MLA site. I initially proposed to him to keep the site at my 
ISP because I control the DNS and it's already pointing to my hosting 
service, but Robin proposed letting us use his Amazon-based server, 
which he maintains. It has many advantages in addition to security, it 
has load-balancing and speedup so that automatically the URL will be 
served from the Amazon server nearest to your location. He also will 
take care of backup, which will keep incremental copies even to the day 
if desired. After a year, there may be some very small Amazon 
maintenance site fees which we can contribute, or Robin may offer to pay 
them himself and absorb his costs in the gamut of several sites that he 
administers for Leapwing Audio, Abbey Road and a few others that he runs.

All that sounds very fine to me and I told him if he has to buy any 
plugins we will contribute to and pay for them. Specifically, security 
plugins, if necessary, or any look-and-feel plugins. But it's a pretty 
basic site, and probably we don't need any fancy look-and-feel plugins 
like I'm using for www.digido.com. We'll see what they  come up with. 
Before the MLA site was hacked, I had a dramatic photo I have taken of 
an Eagle. At the time you guys seemed to like it. Attached is the photo 
(if the maillist can accept attachments) and you can tell me what you 
think. Or feel free to offer another photo or image for our new home page!

So, Robin and his team will make up a mockup that we can look at, 
criticize and contribute to, and when we decide that it's ready, I'll 
change the master DNS to point to our new site. Then within 24 or so 
hours, it will propagate around the world!

As for content, I asked Robin to implement a way for viewers to view a 
PDF file. That way we can edit or create the PDF offline and submit it 
to him. Other copy he could change, or if necessary, give one of us 
access to the Wordpress back end for refinement. Any way we like along 
these lines is workable and he's flexible in that way.

So, Eelco, can you please add robinreumers at gmail.com to our mail list.


Let the games begin!


Take care all,



Bob

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If you want good sound on your album, come to Bob Katz 407-831-0233 
DIGITAL DOMAIN MASTERING STUDIO Author: *Mastering Audio *Digital Domain 
Website <http://www.digido.com/> No trees were killed in the sending of 
this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly 
inconvenienced.

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