Re: Dead links from ofbiz.org website marketing page
Posted by
David E. Jones on
Jun 27, 2006; 8:50pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Dead-links-from-ofbiz-org-website-marketing-page-tp140230p140231.html
Walter,
This is something that I certainly appreciate help with maintaining. It is perfectly acceptable to submit a patch for the website/index.html file and the website/marketing.html file just as with any other file in OFBiz.
However, if you (or anyone) does want to work on this PLEASE be more careful. The list below is helpful for checking out sites that have changed, but many of the "Dead" links are fine (like Alcoa) or that you say are PHP or something are really using OFBiz (100OK, though the link is now wrong; ). It doesn't mean there entire site is running on OFBiz, so you may need to look closer. Also if the site is under construction or has a deployment issue that's no reason to remove it from the list. Most of those sites you probably wouldn't want to show a client or management anyway because not much has been invested in their customization.
In other words, it's great to have help with this, and would be great to have help looking for new sites as well as finding dead sites. Please keep a positive attitude about it though. The tone I'm seeing in this message is that you are frustrated because you thought you were getting something in this list that you didn't really get. There is nothing that says this is perfect, and like everything else it is a zero budget effort. If that's not cool with you, then doing something about it is great, and this message is a good start. So thank you for it.
-David
Walter Vaughan wrote:
> As part of my presentation to the rest of senior management, I need to
> show examples of what other companies are doing with ofBiz's framework
> on the ecommerce side of things. I have went to every one of these
> websites and tried to get them to work, either by clicking directly on
> our ofbiz.org website or going to the top level of the listed domain. I
> have found a lot of them that are not working at this time or never will
> again.
>
> Who takes care of this on the ofbiz.org website?
> Is this something that should be posted on the JiRa site as a to-do?
>
> Below "DEAD" means either the domain has been abandoned, is really dead,
> or is quite evidently not running the ofBiz framework in any
> determinable fashion. I am sure this list is not 100% accurate, but we
> (I) look stupid when I say look at all these companies running ofBiz
> successfully and you have almost a 50% change of clicking a defunct or
> non-ofBiz website.
>
> Dead - 100OK (Chinese?)
> Dead - 1st Exclusive: Africlipse
> - Action Envelope
> Expired SSL - Adirondack Frostbite
> Dead - Alarm-Panels
> Dead - Alcoa Accessory Products
> - Artreach-Dallas
> - Beehot (Chinese)
> - Big Island Sam's
> - BioWaves
> - Born Gifted
> - Cactus Bike
> - CellularOne (flash front-end)
> - **Chocolate Secrets
> Dead - Computers Depot (Spanish)
> - Discovery Toys
> - DKNY
> - Donna Karan Collection
> - Energy Beam Sciences
> - Ethical Shopper
> - EX-Cel Agricultural Belting
> Dead - Expo Logistics del ICEX (Spanish)
> - Exterra / Ensystex
> - First Endurance
> Dead - Flip (the Bird)
> - Formative Fun
> Not ofBiz - Freakshop
> Dead - Gifted Expressions
> - Gracious Style
> - HortHippo.com
> - Ingeniu (Portuguese)
> Dead - Mad-man
> - Magellan University
> Expired SSL - Manchester Wolves
> - Messer Group (German, French)
> Dead - Metrobelle
> Dead - Oddesse (German/English)
> - Odyssey Toys
> - Old Glory
> - Partner Homes
> - the patchwork pig
> Dead - QPro Products
> - Really Cool Email
> Expired SSL - Richmond RiverDogs
> - Salton
> site PHP - Seidensticker Shirts (German)
> site PHP - Shirt Alarm (German)
> - ShockTroop.com
> - **Silver Wings Plus Club
> - Skyward Seen
> site FLASH - Special AI
> - Steel Goods
> - Steiner Sports
> Dead - Storit.com
> - Techmate
> Dead - TGoblin.com
> Dead - Tira Studios
> - totes >> ISOTONER
> Dead - UHL Shop
> - Ulta
> - Utah's Best
> - Xinit Systems
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Walter