Re: Website work

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

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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.
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>>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.