====== News wiki-blog goes live! ======

Welcome to the L3DT news weblog. As I mentioned in the [[l3dt:2006:may:12|first test-post]], this part of the site was built using [[doku>start|DokuWiki]]((This is the 3rd DokuWiki installation on this site; the other two being [[bundydocs>start|documentation]] and the [[bundywiki>start|user's wiki]].)) and the [[http://wiki.splitbrain.org/plugin:blog|blog plugin]] thereof. 

===== Why? =====

The purpose of this weblog is to:

  - Provide a place for longer news items and announcements than are practical with the [[http://www.bundysoft.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=2|announcements forum]].
  - Providing users with permanent, logically-structured and searchable [[:l3dt|archives]].
  - Streamline site maintenance.

As with the old hand-crafted PHP/XHTML news pages, summaries of important items will be splashed on the [[http://www.bundysoft.com/L3DT/|main page]] with appropriate links to the full items here. 

===== Still to do =====

The style and presentation is still a little, eh, rustic, but I can tinker with that later. The RSS feeds are also quite wonky, so I don't recommend anyone subscribe just yet.