Hi, On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 13:37, Raphaël Quinet wrote: > That looks nice. That design looks vaguely familiar... ;-) It should look familiar.....I think you might know the reason to why it should look familiar. > I am not sure that the front page should have some kind of news, > though. Having up-to-date information for the main site will be hard > enough. History shows that everybody is excited at first and supplies > a lot of news, but this slows down after a while and it is difficult > to keep the site alive. So it would probably be better to keep the > news part for the main site only. The home page of the developers' > site would only have a set of links to the important sections of the > site, even if this duplicates some parts of the navigation bar. Yes, but what should be here instead? Some info about what developer.gimp.org is? > That's fine for me. There are only a few requirements that I would > like to put on the design: > - It should be clean XHTML 1.0 (or at least HTML 4.01). It looks like > this is already the case. > - The page design should not include too many images or complex > (D)HTML stuff. Again, it looks like this is fine already. > - There should be some kind of revision control system (such as CVS) > for the contents of the pages. This reduces potential problems if > there is more than one webmaster for the pages. > - For those editing the pages, the contents should be clearly > separated from the template. This means that all source files > should only contain the body of the pages (without header, footer or > navigation bar) and some build system should be able to apply the > template to these source files to generate the final HTML pages. (*) > - The source files (under revision control) and generated files should > be in different directories. Ideally, it should be possible to > rebuild everything by typing "make" in the source directory. > - The generated HTML files should be static: no server-side includes, > PHP, Perl or other fancy stuff that would put additional > requirements on the server. > - It should be possible to integrate some pages that are not using > the same templates. This will be useful for the documentation pages > generated by gtk-doc. All this is no problem at all. The big problem in this case would be the CVS stuff for the developer.gimp.org, I don't have knowledge enough to create a CVS-server for the site. Any ideas? > So if this is fine for you, then I would be happy to work together > with you on the update of the developers' site. That is great, I would be more then happy to work with the design. Regards, -- Niklas <scizzo@xxxxxxxxxx>
