Re: New Website layout

[Thilo Pfennig <tp pfennigsolutions de>]

Hi,

I have just re-subscribed to this list. Some things I like to suggest:

1. Find somebody who is or will be in charge or veto for the web stuff.
This individual should also be documented by name in the wiki at
live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb
2. We need somebody with SVN access to actually change the pages. This
is the needle eye.
3. Hyle, you should add you to this list:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/Team
4. The last big update of the web pages wasnt successful. I suggest that
we focus on www.gnome.org (WGO) only. And now specifially to
www.gnome.org/index.html, which can be made as an example of how the
rest of the pages can look like. Potentially I think a CMS will be
better in the future but I would strongly suggest to now fix the front
page before making big plans. And then work down from top to bottom. If
anybody still wants to do a CMS he can do it on another server.
5. There is tons of stuff under http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb - nobody
can read it all without going crazy. So I suggest to mostly forget about
it and pick out some essentials.

I will set up the page http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/www.gnome.org
where we can work on what we do now. I would not recommend to do a huge
overhaul now. I suggest fixing content and developing things further -
and then maybe as second step switch design and switch to CMS. But a CMS
is more complicated to establish as this needs more than just simple SVN
access - so this would be a potential blocker.

I think many pages havent been update for years waiting for the major
overhaul which never came. If we fix small and medium things first the
new content can go into the new page and what we fix now is fixed and is
usable from day one.

That said this is all just a proposition coming out from my experience
on projects and with the history of GnomeWeb overhaul. I offer to help
with organizing some small overhaul to help fixing and refreshing the
pages - I do not have SVN account or can help in any other way than on
this list, via chat and in the wiki. I can also file some more bugs to
specificly identify some problems.

I think there are for sure better long term solutions like a CMS  but I
do not see this happeing soon, realistically. And if it happens anyhow
this work is not wasted.

Regards,
Thilo



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