On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Taher Shihadeh <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been talking to Alvaro recently about our website, and both of us > think it has been needing a cleanup for some time now. > > [snip] > > Please, feel free to jump in: what would you improve? ;-) > The design is fine. The only really lacking thing that I see is updated documentation. Assuming that this gets done, it would be nice to keep docs for older versions as well, similar to how Django keeps docs for the development version, 1.0 and .96 [1]. Making docs a wiki would make this much harder, but perhaps docs could be kept in a separate repository, something that you could give more people commit access to (so you can offload some of the work, but not trust everyone with code-commit access)? Of course, hosting it on something like GitHub makes it that much easier for us to submit changes. See, for instance, uzbl's website on GitHub.[5] All I ask, if you do any AJAX changes, is to make sure that it's all uninstrusive - that is, I can still do everything with Javascript turned off. A combination mailing list-forum would be quite useful; I haven't found any packaged software to do that, but the Ruby forums[2] are pretty close. If we go for standalone forums, might I suggest FluxBB[3]? It's simple and light, which makes me think that it would be fairly well-viewed by Cherokee users. Mm, now that I'm thinking about design again, I'd suggest you keep the easy2read[4] standard in mind. In short: don't make the body fonts smaller than the default, make the line-spacing at least 1.5, and use whitespace to make things easier on my eyes. As a general rule, when creating a new design, I make sure to try and use the site while it's 2 or 3 hours past my bedtime. If I can still read things with my blurry eyes, then it's alright. :) [1]: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ [2]: http://www.ruby-forum.com/ [3]: http://fluxbb.org/ [4]: http://informationarchitects.jp/100E2R/ [5]: http://github.com/Barrucadu/uzbl-website -- James Pearson -- The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay
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