As I mentioned Google sites has a free wiki template that is very easy to edit and free hosting intended just for this sort of situation:
http://sites.google.com/It is easier than HTML and has the nice wiki format if you use their html wiki.
If you can start it up and share the password with the list moderator I'm sure you can add editors so it will be self sustaining without relying on someone else's personal webspace.
I find it easier to search this group using yahoo search than go to massmind so makes it basically worthless.
Again I would just cut and paste everything and be done with it but I don't want to rip off the copyright. It would be better for original authors to use it.
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Stefan Trethan <stefan_trethan@...> wrote:
>
> I like simple HTML websites.
>
> I understand the concept of ads and accept them as a way to keep free
> information online.
>
> You have paid me personally a nice sum of that ad money in exchange
> for hosting some of my info about direct inkjet printing.
>
> That said, I still have to concur with the previous critics that your
> page has some very serious drawbacks. They are serious to the extent
> that I did not feel inclined to discover the other, no doubt very
> interesting, information located there.
>
> Some points I wish to list individually:
>
> ∗ There doesn't appear to be any structure apart from a general
> sorting into topics, which are often not well named.
>
> ∗ Topics make no attempt at all to be complete. Individual comments
> about one thing or the other seem to make up the content. Even if no
> detailed information is available at least there should be a list of
> all the common options. It is like someone wants to explain how to
> bake a cake, and all he talks about is how the icing is applied.
>
> ∗ It is hard to see where the content ends and the ads and navigation
> elements start, because it is all one color and style.
>
> I am sorry, to me it is confusing and disorganized. My reaction to
> your site, in as few words as possible: "huh, what's that?".
> It's sad that you want to quit now, because this could have been a
> very good thing, but on the other hand I can't help but feel it was a
> bit of a wasted effort to start with if the majority of people can't
> get to grips with the website.
>
> Consider this, you have set this site up, you know every nook and
> cranny and it makes perfect sense to you. But we haven't. If you write
> a page for other people they should be able to use it.
>
> I hope you'll not dwell on the criticism too much, it's really not
> meant in bad spirit.
>
>
>
>
> I'd help with a FAQ or wiki, as long as I can get my head around it,
> hosting/moderation is stable and long-term, and an effort is made to
> somehow allow all the differing opinions about how to do things to
> co-exist.
>
> ST
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:37 PM, jamesmichaelnewton
> <jamesmichaelnewton@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, John McCormick <mcjonster@> wrote:
> >>
> >> Ya I agree no offense but that massmind website is terrible.
> >>
> >> There's a million poorly placed ads on it and is f-ugly...
> >
> > Seriously? It's more important to you that the site be pretty than that it have relevant content? wow... whatever...
> >
> >
> >> Google Sites has free wiki templates and hosting: http://sites.google.com/site/projectwikitemplate_en/
> >>
> >> It would take 15 minutes to recreate all the info on massmind without the ads and have a true wiki style webpage faq.
> >
> > The reason why that site has ads is that the ads pay for someone to maintain it. That's why it exists. There are very few saints in the engineering world. It makes just enough from those ads to pay my hosting bill and for the time I spend maintaining it.
> >
> >
> >> I would volunteer to just cut and paste info into a google webpage but I'm not an expert by any means.
> >
> >
> > And yet you feel qualified to slam my efforts. Thanks.
> >
> >
> >> --- On Thu, 5/13/10, Piers Goodhew <piers@> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> From: Piers Goodhew <piers@>
> >> Subject: Re: The FAQ, and maybe why there isn't one. Was Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Best Way to Cut PCB
> >> To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
> >> Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010, 3:34 AM
> >>
> >>
> >> I did look at the massmind site earlier. It didn't seem to have a lot of
> >> wiki things that I'm used to like auto links, tables of contents, nice clean
> >> syntax to easily autoformat posts, but I guess I should look again.
> >
> > Nope, your right, it's a pile of shit. Just read above. But it's a pile of shit that works and has most of the /content/ and actual information that are important on it. To post something you would have to actually type or paste in your text, copy in the URL you wanted to reference (if there is one) and then depend on a human page editor (me) to link things and edit the page if it needed it. The horror!
> >
> > If you wanted to be a page editor, you would actually have to learn HTML. REAL HTML! That arcane "programming language" that people must go to school for years to understand. Instead of auto linking random words, you would actually have to type <a href="lcds.htm">lcd</a> so don't bother, start a wiki yourself instead.
> >
> >
> >> The main reason I haven't volunteered for such a job is that I think you
> >> need to be prepared to put in at least a year (half a year) actually doing
> >> it, and I try not to make commitments I'm not certain i can keep.
> >
> > Yeah, I wonder why I bother.
> >
> > In fact, I doubt I will anymore.
> >
> > --
> > James.
> >
> >
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