RE: [Rhythmbox-devel] State Of The Rhythmbox

[Douglas McMorris <virage83 mail utexas edu>]

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 12:05, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 17:54, Douglas McMorris wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 11:38, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 17:26, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 07:19, sisob@eircom.net wrote:
> > > > > > First, I'd like to announce that we have a new website:
> > > > > > http://www.rhythmbox.org/
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hmm, I prefered the old one, but that is neither here nor there.
> > > > > Tell me you didn't just nuke the old one. I was planning on updating
> > > > > the install guide for the new release.
> > > > 
> > > > I did, sorry.  Well, it's still in the rb-site CVS history I guess if
> > > > you want to use it for reference.
> > > > 
> > > > Anyways, if you are going to be working on the web site, let me know
> > > > beforehand, because I still haven't decided on where to keep it in
> > > > revision control, and we'll want to work that out.
> > > > 
> > > > > The old site just looked so much cooler...
> > > > 
> > > > It did look cooler, I agree.  But it had three major problems:
> > > > 
> > > > 1) PHP
> > > > 2) Complete lack of standards compliance
> > > > 3) Gross code (this tends to be tied directly to #1)
> > > > 
> > > > Anyways, I will eventually get around to improving the new website,
> > > > probably by stealing more of Epiphany's layout.
> > > 
> > > I didn't do the design but I wrote the code. It's not worse than some
> > > other code... I mean, what do you expect for a 5 pages website ;)
> > Why not just do a stylesheet and use a perl script server side
> > include... a simple perl script or two and a stylesheet and then you can
> > change the whole site later on and not have to redo the content or even
> > copy and paste... it would just work.  I'd be willing to do this... I've
> > got a fair amount of experience with it.
> 
> The current code pretty much allows that already.
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/rhythmbox/rb-site/
> 
> Oh, and I'd rather not see comments about the website unless the person
> is ready to actually do the work on it :)

cool, thanks, i took a look at the stuff from the old site and it looks
like it was done very well... I haven't used php before, but it looks
pretty straight forward and I should probably learn a bit anyways.  As
for your last comment, I'm ready to do some work on it.  Currently I'm
trying to check it out from cvs so I can get it working on my box and
begin playing around with things.  I liked the look and feel of the old
site, I think just updating the content would be enough.  Is there
anything special I need to be able to checkout the website source?? I
know its on sourceforge, I'm guess its not setup for anon access though
right?
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Douglas McMorris <virage83@mail.utexas.edu>