Re: RFC: Website redesign
- From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
- Date
- Apr 15, 2008, 11:54 UTC
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- <20080415115431.GA26302@machine.or.cz>
- In-Reply-To
- <56e37551-4b8f-4164-a71d-79dba8635b7d@l28g2000prd.googlegroups.com>
Please do not top-post, it makes it more difficult to follow the thread and reply.
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 08:38:25AM -0700, Dill wrote:
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> Jonas Fonseca wrote: > > If the home page should carry news it needs to have infrastructure > > so that we don't need to bug Petr each time it should be updated. I > > have commit access to the git-homepage repo and maybe Petr could add > > others as well, but the question is if we want some web interface > > for submitting news. I registered git-scm.org after the last survey > > and right now it is just set up as an alias for git.or.cz. It comes > > with some PHP capability which could serve as a place to develop a > > redesign, however, I am not hosting it myself and I don't know what > > kind of traffic will be required.
The server currently hosting git.or.cz could run PHP too if it would make sense. I'd of course prefer Perl (and it would be easier to set up), but I probably wouldn't do much of the coding myself, so it's not up to me to decide.
> Isn't it possible to set up a git repo that has all the web page files > and have it set up so the web site updates from that repo. Or just > have Petr run a few commands. Or maybe that's what happens already.
This is exactly the current setup: http://repo.or.cz/w/git-homepage.git
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> Then allow a few people to write to that repo. As far as the news go, > the web page I set up is easily edited by hand and updated it's just > how do we quickly allow updates without bothering people. Heres some > more designs: > > http://sarpulhu.googlepages.com/git5 > http://sarpulhu.googlepages.com/git6 -my personal favorite > http://sarpulhu.googlepages.com/git7
I appreciate the effort, but frankly, I simply personally like the current layout much more - the design certainly has quirks, but I don't really find it bad; I also think that the current amount of content does not justify splitting to multiple pages. The newly proposed version looks to me just as barebone graphically as the old one, with the same level of navigability but wasting screen estate and requiring more clicks to get where you need.
That said, this can (and quite probably does) merely mean that I simply have no taste at all and should be kept away from any kind of web design! :-) So, I do not want to inhibit progress at all, but before considering to adopt the new design, I would prefer to see wider feedback from the core members of the community to convince me that I'm wrong.
Something in the style of earlier mentioned restlet.org might not be necessarily bad (though I'm slightly wary of too toyish-looking graphics), but it appears to me that graphically, that site is simply on a completely different level than the current proposals. But if someone would do some cute design, I believe the current layout could look quite nice too - after all, consider http://bazaar-vcs.org/ (modulo the wiki artifacts plague).
Kind regards,
-- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- J. W. von Goethe