developer.gnome.org website

[Marius Andreiana <mandreiana rdsnet ro>]

Hi all!

In a recent email, Miguel was asking for a web helper 
for gnome-ui website.

I've also talked on irc in #gnome-ui with some folks.
Ideally all site structure will be in a xml file;
content will remain in separate files, like now.

So how about this :

developer.gnome.org site has several sections, like gnome-ui.

A section has some common stuff in it :
***
header (image at the top)
left navbar (links with small images : Home,  ..., Sitemap)
content (right box)
footer navbar : only items with parent=BASE, w/out images
***

There is a common footer for all developer.gnome.org website,
grouped with footer navbar :
***
gnome.org | developer.gnome.org 

<mainter_of_section>@email.org

Hosted by ...
***


A section is independend from the rest of the site. 
References in navbars are with ../


The ONLY non-relative links will be to /global/
which has :
images/
        images such as main-small.gif, news-small.gif, sitemap
        A section can use these if doesn't have any
        special images.
gnomedev.css
        stylesheets


A section has :
***
name (small letters, no spaces, unique)
title
sitemap - optional, boolean. If present, this section will have a site
map.
maintainer - showed in footer
items
***

items have
***
parent - name of the parent (another item or BASE)
name (small letters, no spaces, unique in the section)
title
description (used in site map)
directory - optional; yes/no (for better org)
        directory name is the name of the item
        if not present, file with content/images/files will be at the
same level with parent's directory
        if present, item content/images/files will be in that subdir 
        (applies to it's children too)
        if a child of this one has a directory, it
                        will be in child1_name/child2_name/
hr - optional, boolean; used in left navbar to separate childrens
global_icons - optional, boolean; if present, icon images will be
        taken from /global/images/ (used for news, sitemap, ...)

Content will be taken from name.html if no <directory> present, or
        name/index.html if directory there.

Icons will be taken from
        images/<name>_icon_small - a small image (displayed in left
navbar)
        images/<name>_icon_large - large icon, showed in content near
title

I've attached a sample xml file for this.

I can do a script (in php) which generates HTML from this xml file
and content (already started). 
Navbars, sitemap require no aditional info.

Please tell me your opinions/suggestions and if you agree with this, 
so I can continue. 


-- 
Marius Andreiana

Title: Gnome User Interface Improvement Project

gnome-ui John j gnome org BASE news All of the latest additions and news BASE hitsquad The Team that process requests, interfaces with the programmers, and foists conformity on an unsuspecting world BASE software A listing of suggestions, sorted by package name/application name. hitsquad control-center desc hitsquad gfm asd software gnome-core The core GNOME package gnome-core gnome-core-panel The GNOME Panel software libraries Suggestions for libraries

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