This website is different than most other web sites: You can change the contents of any page!
All you need is your browser – add, change, remove even create brand-new pages, at the click of a button.

Why should I edit your site?

Because you can! It's as easy as writing an e-mail: you don't have to worry about web pages, HTML, publishing files, and all that. Just click the Edit this page link at the top of the page, type your text, and click Save. It doesn't get much easier, does it?

You do have to register as a user first, but if you prefer to log in anonymously you can use the name TWikiGuest (the password is guest). Don't worry about deleting content. Nothing is really lost, because the website automatically keeps track of changes. That gives a great overview of what was changed when.

Editing these pages are the easiest way ever to maintain a website, and it's also the easiest way ever for visitors to give their comments: you can simply edit the page until you're happy with it! For instance, we use this website to communicate with you and friends and family, and also to store all kinds of bits of trivia and essential knowledge for our own use or to share it with others.

Notes & tips

1. Register as a user to get started.
2. How do I...? The GettingStartedGuide teaches you the basics in 10 minutes.
3. Got any requests? Put it on the WishList!
4. Changes: { Main | Torben | Jan }
   RecentChanges? lists the 10 most recent changes in each area (registration required). This is a handy way to keep track of what's going on, because remember: anybody can change this website!
5. The WebTopicList lists all pages in the Main web.
6. The Sandbox is useful for playing around with your new-learned skills.

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This page will eventually come to describe some of the background of how g-b.dk came to end up like it is now. It's been a long trip to get here, and took many website generations. But more of that later. For now, here are a few aspects that we feel like commenting on.

Usability

We try to keep this website as focused on usability as possible. This has many implications, all of which come down to making the visit a pleasant one for our guests. We believe in using clear and direct language, and keeping hyperlink colors the way they should be (blue, red, purple), and using standards-compliant HTML (when we can), and having as little unnecessary graphics as possible, and not using browser-specific features, and not using Flash or other non-HTML medias, and keeping small page sizes so they download fast, and so on. JakobNielsen? runs the UseIt website with many good checklists for all of this. Over the years we've tried to use different kinds of nifty software (like MS FrontPage? ) but in the end we always found that hand-coding was the only solution that worked well enough. Then came the WikiWeb? and we finally found a way to run that on our web server, and since then most of our website hassles were done with TWiki is template-based, and we only need to make good templates and then all pages are good. The templates in use per May 2004 are nearly good enough, but we still maintain a long WishList that we're working to fulfil.

Spam

Our former web hosting provider's mail server was misused by spammers for the purpose of sending junk mail. We are painfully aware of the problem and its consequences. This happened in 2002, and even though the problem was stopped within a few days, we will never get rid of the spam problems caused by that other provider. That incident was one among several reasons for moving to excellent DreamHost instead. See also: Our statement about the incident

TWiki

To install TWiki on DreamHost, there are a few special steps to take. I've documented as much as I can in InstallTwikiOnDreamhost. That page also lists further references.

Referrals

We don't normally have banner ads or any other advertising on this website. Our only exception to this rule is advertising for DreamHost, our hosting provider, and purely because we honestly believe it's the best hosting provider. We've never advertised for any other provider. The DreamHost ads are in the form of images that link to http://www.dreamhost.com/rewards.cgi or forum posts that link to http://dreamhost.com/rewards.cgi?gbdk/shared/comparison.html. These links connect the web user with our hosting account in the sense that if the web user registers as a paying customer with DreamHost, then we get a small discount on our hosting bill. The web user sees no difference in price or service.

 

We don't use the www. subdomain on our homepage. You can put it in, but you'll end up at g-b.dk anyway. See http://no-www.org for details.