[Bast-commits] r8879 - in DBIC-Web: . pages pages/resources/css

[david at dev.catalyst.perl.org]

Author: david
Date: 2010-03-04 14:42:53 +0000 (Thu, 04 Mar 2010)
New Revision: 8879

Modified:
   DBIC-Web/
   DBIC-Web/pages/index.html
   DBIC-Web/pages/resources/css/basic.css
Log:
 r28 at drax:  david | 2010-03-04 13:55:31 +0000
 New content for homepage



Property changes on: DBIC-Web
___________________________________________________________________
Modified: svk:merge
   - 8f56f3f5-0ce6-439a-8bf6-7ff32a8a3359:/local/DBIC-Web:27
   + 8f56f3f5-0ce6-439a-8bf6-7ff32a8a3359:/local/DBIC-Web:28

Modified: DBIC-Web/pages/index.html
===================================================================
--- DBIC-Web/pages/index.html	2010-03-04 14:42:51 UTC (rev 8878)
+++ DBIC-Web/pages/index.html	2010-03-04 14:42:53 UTC (rev 8879)
@@ -1,19 +1,37 @@
 [% WRAPPER wrapper.tt %]
-        <a href="http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org"> 
-        <img src="resources/images/ppi01-banner.png" alt="Planet Perl Ironman"
-             style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0">
-        </a>
-        
         [% PROCESS main_heading.tt %]
         
-        <p>
-          DBIx::Class is an Extensible and flexible object <-> relational mapper written in Perl.
-        </p>
+        <h2>What is DBIc::Class?</h2>
         
-        <p>
-          <strong>Insert benefits of using DBIx::Class here</strong>
-        </p>
+        <p><abbr title="DBIx::Class">DBIC</abbr> is an extensible and flexible
+        Object/Relational Mapper written in Perl. ORMs speed development,
+        abstract data and make it
+        portable, allow you to represent your business rules through <abbr
+        title="Object Orientated">OO</abbr> code and generate boilerplate code
+        for <acronym title="Create, Read, Update, Delete">CRUD</acronym>
+        operations.</p>
         
+        <h2>DBIC Features</h2>
+        
+        <p>Just a few of the benefits of DBIC are listed here. 
+        
+        <ul>
+          <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBIx::Class::Manual::Intro#Using_DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader">Generate
+        classes</a> from your database structure</li>
+          
+          <li>Write your classes <a
+        href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBIx::Class::Manual::Intro#Setting_it_up_manually">manually</a></li>
+        
+        <li>Get a <a
+        href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::DateTime">DateTime
+        object</a> when you are dealing with a time based column</li>
+        
+        <li>Get an <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Catalyst::Plugin::AutoCRUD">Ajax interface</a> to your database — automatically</li>
+
+        </ul>        
+        
+        <h2>Getting Started</h2>
+        
         <p>
           If you would like to read more about Dbic we reccomend you start with the
           <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBIx::Class">cpan documentation</a>, and
@@ -21,4 +39,13 @@
           Mailing List</a> if you would like to join in with the community.
         </p>
         
+        <h2>Supporting Projects</h2>
+        
+        <p>DBIC is an <a href="http://www.enlightenedperl.org/project.html">Enlightened Perl
+        Organisation supported project</a>.</p>
+        
+        <p><a href="http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org"><img
+        src="resources/images/ppi01-banner.png"
+        alt="The DBIC project recommends Planet Perl Ironman"></a></p>
+        
 [% END %]

Modified: DBIC-Web/pages/resources/css/basic.css
===================================================================
--- DBIC-Web/pages/resources/css/basic.css	2010-03-04 14:42:51 UTC (rev 8878)
+++ DBIC-Web/pages/resources/css/basic.css	2010-03-04 14:42:53 UTC (rev 8879)
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
     padding: 4px;
 }
 
+img {
+    border: 0;
+}
+
 #header h1,
 #header a {
   margin: 30px 0px 10px 3px;