Re: AbiWord website re-design

Progress update:
     - The biggest deal right now is organizing the site content.
There's more to the AbiWord than I thought, and getting the content
presented in a sane and user-friendly manner will take a bit.
    - I've modified and will continue to modify the design to this end.
    - In regard to a CMS, I can't make the decision until I get a truly
complete view of what's-what as far as the content goes.

On 11/04/2011 11:16 AM, Adrian Sampson wrote:
> To expand on that, here's what my view of the site as it exists and
> what I'm planning for the sake of better organization(some of the more
> obvious stuff is implicit, like the 'Download' section having links to
> download Windows and Linux versions):
> http://pastebin.com/AMPc3Qgk
>
> From my perspective, I think a minimalistic approach would work best,
> as far as updating the site in the future -- keep a sensible
> organizational structure and use version-control to update portions of
> the site.
>
> I've installed WordPress and played around with it a bit, but I don't
> think it or any other CMS can really provide much in the way of
> benefit in this case, other than having a easy/built-in commenting
> system.
>
> This weekend, I'm going to really buckle down and get this thing done,
> because it's honestly been too long coming and I need to salvage my
> reputation here(:p), but I'm wondering if you guys would be okay with
> editing source html source and committing it every and now and then to
> update the site.
>
> On 10/31/2011 08:42 AM, Adrian Sampson wrote:
>> Aye, but things have been all over the place, as of late(lots of
>> things on my plate in my personal life), but I am trying to get
>> things moving forward for the AbiWord site. Right now, the biggest
>> hurdle is the negotiating the site structure and implementing a CMS.
>> In regard to the latter, I'm not sure how inappropriate it would be
>> to simply have pure PHP for the templating and content handling.
>>
>> On 10/30/2011 07:03 PM, J.M. Maurer wrote:
>>> Hi Adrian!
>>>
>>> I was just wondering if you were still working on/interested in your
>>> awesome new AbiSource.com design?
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>> Marc
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 15:53 -0500, Adrian Sampson wrote:
>>>> I've been in contact with some people on IRC, and I'm moving to
>>>> contribute a re-design of the AbiWord website -- but first I'd like to
>>>> get the green flag on this, so I figured using this mailing list would
>>>> be the best way to communicate.
>>>>
>>>> Here's what I have so far: http://roguespark.com/img/abiword3.png
>>>> It should be noted that I'm open to modifying this design to be more
>>>> content-centric(for instance, displaying an updates/news block).
>>>>
>>>> - Adrian(Vaerros on irc.freenode.net/irc.gnome.org)
>>>
>>
>
Received on Tue Nov 8 00:30:32 2011