Re: New website for gyrus

["Pedro Villavicencio Garrido" <pvillavi gmail com>]

Hello,

2007/1/15, Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra alumnos utalca cl>:
> Hi,
>
> As some of you may have already noticed, http://gyrus.gnome.cl silently
> disappeared. I realized of this about one week ago, but don't really
> know how long has been since the site is down (the fact that google
> doesn't even list the site tells me that it's been a while, sigh).
>
> As a consequence of this, all the tarballs which weren't published in
> the GNOME FTP server[1], and the few Debian packages we had, are lost,
> together with the website, and screenshots. Cheers.

crap.. the files should be in the web server... i don't think that the
administrator (Fabian) deleted them.

> Fortunately, I've tagged all the releases I've made in the CVS
> repository, so I can still generate the old packages and am planning to
> upload them to the GNOME FTP server. Therefore, there is no real lost on
> this website abduction, and it'll be only a matter of time.

Based on your experienced and advice we are going to release hipo 0.3
tagged, we don't want to lose the packages...

> Now, let's be honest. The old website was really ugly and too 90's. So
> this is the perfect excuse to sit my ass and write a new site with a
> more GNOME'ish interface. Here is where I need you to help me, because I
> am pretty bad at web design. I can only visualize what I want for the
> website, but I'm too dumb with Gimp to do something really pretty. Would
> you like to be the hero of the day?
>
> So, this is what I'm planning to do:
>
> 1. Write a simple website based in the traditional GNOME stylesheet,
> using only HTML and CSS. You can see many examples of these websites
> here[2][3][4].

For hipo i just follow the GNOME Sysadmins Website Guide[1]

> 2. Take some screenshots of the latest version (0.3.6) to be added in
> the webpage. The screenshots should be taken using the Clearlooks theme,
> and should show the main features of the program (saving sessions,
> setting quotas, editing acl's, deleting orphaned mailboxes, generating
> overquota reports, etc).
>
> 3. Generate and upload the old tarballs to the GNOME FTP server, so they
> don't get lost again.
>
> 4. Find a proper place to upload the website. I'm thinking of
> www.gnome.org/projects/ for this, but still have to think well about it.

According to the Bugzilla for Projects Maintainers page[2], it should
be added, we are planning to move the web site of hipo to there for
0.3.

1- http://live.gnome.org/Sysadmin/WebSites
2- http://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/ForMaintainers

Best Regards,

pedro.