Since wrapping up GCI, there's been a lot of attention going into the website infrastructure and website itself. Jacob got most of BRL-CAD's web infrastructure migrated onto our newer hardware and has been tweaking the setup along the way. Over the past few weeks, Erik and myself have nearly finished migrating all of the remaining system services on the server so we can shut the old one off. I'm hoping to have the last bits migrated any day now.
More recently, attention is once again on the website with Nick and Jacob stepping up a redesign. Towards that, I put some old notes I've had squirreled away for a long time onto the wiki to help a dialog along: http://brlcad.org/wiki/TOC That hierarchy/organization isn't set in stone or anything; it's just to help get a discussion rolling and for me personally to get some of my content objectives out in the open. Comments and constructive critique welcome. That obviously doesn't speak at all to layout or design or what would go on our main page. The one aspect about a redesign that I think is worth changing from our current website is emphasizing participation and information over news in some way. The current main page is basically a blog/news feed and that shouldn't be the primary presentation of BRL-CAD. We have several ideas in play, but your thoughts (and mockups) are welcome to the discussion. Cheers! Sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
