[guadec-list] Thoughts on guadec-beta.gnome.org

[Andy Wingo <wingo pobox com>]

Hi all,

Just saw guadec-beta.gnome.org. Looking pretty good. Some random
thoughts here.

Good things about the site:
 - Sidebar
   * Feed from guadec-list -- that's pretty awesome
 - Appears to be easy to create and edit pages

Places we can improve:
 - Sidebar
   * user ops probably don't need to be on top of the list -- not 
     frequently used
   * absorb top guadec navbar into sidebar? just a thought
 - Space
   * lots of space is occupied by boilerplate: the gnome banner at the 
     top, a subbanner for guadec, the sidebar, the view/edit tabs, the 
     heading, the wiki Home >> Guadec 2006 bar... need to shrink this 
     probably via CSS -- more like live.gnome.org with a sidebar
 - urls
   * guadec.org/?q=about should be seen as guadec.org/about -- these 
     mod_rewrite rules, dropped into .htaccess, will fix that I think:
     RewriteEngine On
     RewriteBase / 
     RewriteRule ^([^?]+)$ /?q=$1 [QSA]
 - toplevel page should give a feeling of a static intro to guadec, with
   only part of it being devoted to recent news -- e.g. something like
   http://guadec-beta.gnome.org/?q=guadec2006, but with news; also how
   does one edit the toplevel page?

Thoughts? Who is actually doing this, qgil and stro?

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-- 
Andy Wingo
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