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

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

Also, I see no space for sponsor logos. We need quite a lot of space for
that.

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 14:08 -0500, Andy Wingo wrote:
> Hi all,e 
> 
> 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?
> 
> >From America with love,
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