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On 11:00 Sat 26 Jan , Alistair Bush wrote: |
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> Ok, so we all know that the last redesign of the website failed for various |
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> reasons. Yet I still think that it is a good way of getting community |
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> feedback and involvement. Therefore what if we were to have a redesign |
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> based around the style (and not the content) of gentoo's websites. |
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> Therefore and entry would consist of x css (however many we currently have) |
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> files. |
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> Our html would be fixed, tho I do admit that we may have to make some |
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> changes to enable contributors to customise images, etc (Hopefully they |
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> would be minor). Any changes we make would be to generalise our html to |
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> enable contributor contributions. contributors could not ask for "special |
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> features" specific to their theme. |
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> What we could then do is implement a theming engine so users could pick the |
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> theme they wish. and/or |
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> have a winning entry set as the default theme ( or just The Theme ) for a |
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> period of time. after which we could switch back or not. |
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> Anyway, what do ppl think of this from a 10,000 foot view. |
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We've been talking about some website changes in the PR group, since the |
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website is our primary public-facing aspect. Having a fairly outdated, |
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crowded website design turns away potential users. |
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Join up to #gentoo-pr and talk to us. One important point to consider is |
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exactly what happened last time around, which I've been looking into, |
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and whether we could pick up that work. There were some serious issues |
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to consider regarding CSS. |
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Here's what I was told: |
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"One of the huge obstacles to be tackled by the redesign was figuring |
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out how to get the XSLT to work with all our existing XML documents to |
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churn out CSS-based content, rather than HTML table-based descriptive |
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content (not CSS-based). That puzzler ended up helping kill the thing." |
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(among other issues, such as the modified color scheme and the proposed |
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logo change) |
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I'm sure Xavier Neys (neysx) has some great war stories, too. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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