CD's can still provide the rich media that suffer from the limitations of the networks. Since we've been active in both, we have set up a few resource-related sites. This site contains a searchable list of authoring languages, links to listservs, a searchable list of developers, and resource lists organized by subject. The commercial programmers list has a form for adding new sites and we dont bother even checking that site to see what is being added. The gross majority of the content comes from the fiery exchanges of the Direct-L listserv.
Director is the best but the learning curve can best be described as cliff-like.
The search script, written in Perl by Kurt Leinbach, takes keywords and returns individual mail messages from a digest that contain all of the keywords. We have created numerour sites for our various projects and agendas. We began compiling links to other community colleges as a single static web page, plus a list of resource links of related sites. It is set up so that anyone can send us a new site. An administrative system allows us to preview and edit all entires.