Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling[ was FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo]

2009-06-15 Thread Curtis Olson
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Heiko Schulz wrote: *Hi all,*** *I installed Joomla! yesterday on my page, for making a example of what could be flightgear.org in the next time.* This is a me too post. :-) I have also installed joomla-1.5 here: http://www.flightgear.org/joomla/ What

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling[ was FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo]

2009-06-15 Thread Heiko Schulz
Von: Curtis Olson curtol...@gmail.com An: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Gesendet: Montag, den 15. Juni 2009, 18:37:51 Uhr Betreff: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling[ was FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling[ was FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo]

2009-06-15 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, First answer for this question 1. Joomla adds an extra layer of management between the actual content and how it gets presented to web visitors. The actual content and site settings are stored in a mysql database. Question: what if

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling[ was FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo]

2009-06-14 Thread Heiko Schulz
especially Curt too! Kind regards HHS Von: Curtis Olson curtol...@gmail.com An: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Gesendet: Samstag, den 13. Juni 2009, 14:55:14 Uhr Betreff: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling[ was FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo]

2009-06-14 Thread francesco
Heiko Schulz ha scritto: *Hi all,* ** *I installed Joomla! yesterday on my page, for making a example of what could be flightgear.org in the next time.* ** *Joomla! is OpenSource CMS which is under GNU GPL. The look of the page can be easily changed with html and css, and there are lot of

[Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling[ was FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo]

2009-06-13 Thread Heiko Schulz
Lol... That's actually a really cool picture! The reflection of the modern jet in the windows in the background. It wasn't my intention just to show a nice pic- I wanted you to just explain, why I'm so strong in convincing you that there are better ways to present the OpenSource FlightGear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling[ was FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo]

2009-06-13 Thread Jari Häkkinen
I too think that flightgear.org needs to be revamped. As a returning user to fg I'd say that the presentation of the project is poor but the software is great. However, it takes some time to realize the fact that fg actually is usable ... it may be due to the fact that I use a mac and other

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling[ was FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo]

2009-06-13 Thread Curtis Olson
The last time we revamped the web site, we had someone put together a demonstration page of the new layout for others to review. We decided we liked it and decided it was worth moving forward, so that person then proceeded to convert the entire site to the new layout. It was a lot of work, but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling[ was FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo]

2009-06-13 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, Aha... The last time we revamped the web site, we had someone put together a demonstration page of the new layout for others to review. We decided we liked it and decided it was worth moving forward, so that person then proceeded to convert the entire site to the new layout. It was a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling[ was FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo]

2009-06-13 Thread syd adams
Although I don't waste time on the forum anymore , I like that idea of a web page competition.I might even give it a try :) That's exactly what I wanted to hear! I would suggest this to propose to the community in the FGFS-forum as well, maybe even as a small competition. I will try something

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling[ was FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo]

2009-06-13 Thread Heiko Schulz
Fine! Everybody agree too? Von: syd adams adams@gmail.com An: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Gesendet: Samstag, den 13. Juni 2009, 21:30:50 Uhr Betreff: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling[ was FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo]

2009-06-13 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Hi, just for your information, Since yesterday I'm testing out some ways for a better aircraft/livery download page. You can see the current efforts at http://flightgear.oxyhost.com/liveries/. It's far from perfect right now, but I think it might look/work nice someday. We can extend it