Re: Website work

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="James Henstridge">
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> > There have been a few discussions about improvements to the website on
> > this list, however not many of them have resulted in the changes getting
> > rolled out.
> >
> > One of the proposals that was discussed was making the various developer
> > websites feel more coherent with some shared navigation.  This got as
> > far as a mockup I put together:
> >    http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/web-test/developer.html
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> I'm going to set up a shared module for the websites, so we can have common
> css, images, etc. Once that is ready, shifting things over to the new style,
> particularly between all the developer sites, will be much simpler.
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Okay.  I was thinking it would be a good idea to have all the various
Gnome websites pulling these common files from a single set of URLs
rather than having a copy of them on each website.  It would make
changes like the recent logo change a lot easier.

> > I also brought up redoing the wiki's skin to address some of the
> > discoverability problems with the current skin.  This work is here:
> >    http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/moin/
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> > This stalled because I did the skin for moin 1.3, so live.gnome.org
> > would need to be migrated to that version before it could be used (the
> > migration doesn't look like it should be too difficult, but it isn't
> > something I can test due to the file permissions).
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> I've done some test runs locally; I'll do it on the live site soon.
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Sounds great!

James.