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The idea of
developing a front page is to decide what sort of feel the site should have. Sorry, I didn’t
make myself clear but the email (‘Revamped
GNOME.org (on GNOME.org)’
sent: 13:13 2/10/05 Australian EST) was more about getting the site
somewhere that the GNOME community could collaborate and construct the site
rather than only one person having control over the site rather than about the
currently available one at geocities.com/bzctt’s flaws/not actually being
constructed to anything deeper than the first page. I agree the redesign
of the whole site/structure is needed but everyone enjoys seeing something
visible happening. No, the front page
is not that important in the whole scheme of things but it is a start in the right
direction and having it somewhere that everyone can have a look/fiddle and see
where the site may/will be going would be good. I have built the
front page to conform to the marketing-list's wiki, but I cannot effectively build
a whole website on my own (particularly one of GNOME's size) - writing every
bit of code - this is where the placement of the site in a modifiable wiki (or
CMS though CMS's typically have a lot of admin to do. The idea with this is
that there is no/not much admin to be done). Btw. I will send an
abiword file that I am working on at the moment to show what my ideas on organisation
on/in the wiki. Can everyone have a
look at the marketing
list's website wiki; it is really useful and is (in my opinion) the best
way to organise GNOME.org. Thanks, Hugh Buzacott -----Original Message----- <quote
who="Hugh Buzacott"> > I was wondering
if we could move the mock-up that is located at >
geocities.com/bzctt <http://www.geocities.com/bzctt/> / to somewhere on > GNOME.org (this
would make the website the more formally the future of > GNOME.org). Hugh, I'm interested
in your work, but I do not believe that a redesigned front page is the
most important piece of the puzzle for a 'revamped' GNOME website. My recent work on an
unrelated website has led to fresh confidence that a modern CMS will
actually work for GNOME. I am working on a port of the current web content
to a Drupal-based 'beta.gnome.org'. Mostly, this is a technical exercise.
But the technical side of it is the least interesting or crucial for the
future usefulness of w.g.o. The most important
item that needs work is a useful information architecture for the site -
something that Claus has been working towards on his page in the GNOME wiki. I'm
watching that with interest, and have some high level things to contribute
to it. A redesign of the
front page will be far more relevant when we have a better understanding and
direction for the *whole* site. Let's concentrate on that. Thanks, - Jeff -- UbuntuBelowZero in
"A narcissist - every inch the preening, overconfident, studiously
effete, ever-so-slightly detached rock star." - Anon. description of
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