Trying to get to grips with Outside Links

While I was compiling some more links for the Outside Links Page today, I thought to myself:

This is a beast to load...
This is a beast to maintain ...
This is a beast to update ... 
It might be worth to have some more pages to spread this on ...
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Then I completed what I wanted to add today and tried to update - but I couldn't even add a single link. As I mentioned before: It is a beast.
So I take this as an opportunity for a change:

I think it would be worth it, having at least some categories of links in their own page, leaving Outside Links as index and perhaps containing the Binaries and misc sections.
I'm not sure though how to subdevide the rest. We clearly have two kinds of Links:

software related links (editors,tools,browsers, etc)
informational links (tutorials, perl persons, CGI & security etc.)

But putting all the links on just two more pages would just postpone a really good solution. Here is my suggestion:

Outside Links
contains an Index and links to the main Perl sites (Perl.org, Perl.com etc) as well as the Journals.
software
- (Link to a new page:) Outside Links - editors
- (Link to a new page:) Outside Links - Tools
- (Link to a new page:) Outside Links - misc software (browsers, etc)
information
- (Link to a new page:) Outside Links - Books
- (Link to a new page:) Outside Links - Perl People
- (Link to a new page:) Outside Links - tutorials (containing all tutorials but CGI)
- (Link to a new page:) Outside Links - CGI & security (also containing tutorials on CGI)

What do other monks think - apart from the fact that this would mean work for Vroom (I am painfully aware of that)?

neophyte Niederrhein.pm

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Re: Trying to get to grips with Outside Links by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 06, 2001 at 02:02 UTC
I'm for either an on-site or off-site (what a novel idea) links page maintained by Perlmonks member(s), because the thing you don't get with other, non-PM-related sites is quality. Here, any program mentioned on the Outside Links page was suggested by some monk, who will be a first person to ask about the experiences with that program, something which you don't get easily from other pages. Also, if you know that a certain monk prefers tool A over tool B, you can maybe infer your preferred program from that. And not to forget the ease of linking to Outside Links from the Chatterbox ...	[reply]
Update done by neophyte (Curate) on Mar 06, 2001 at 14:32 UTC
Fellow Monks, I have overcome my problems updating the Outside Links page for now. (Don't look at the scource of it.) You will find some more tools (thanks ybiC) and tutorials (thanks crazy). The tools section now also contains some webservers for win32. As always: thanks to all, who made me aware of useful links. As for the open directory, I can only say: I am not willing to comment on it. At least not on their Perl section. neophyte Niederrhein.pm	[reply]
Re: Trying to get to grips with Outside Links by tomhukins (Curate) on Mar 05, 2001 at 22:04 UTC
The Open Directory already has a Perl section. I doubt we need another list of Perl resources here when there are good lists elsewhere. If the list is kept, I agree it should be broken down because it is too long. The amount of work seems inappropriate given that the page duplicates something that's already being done elsewhere.	[reply]


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