+1, looks much more inviting for everyone! Great work.

Minors:
* Enlarge the search box so the full text "Search with Apache Solr..." is 
visible. Hey, it's the home page of the world's best search engine, search 
should be prominent - so why not make the search box muuuch wider and add 
AutoComplete.
* Why is the search automatically constrained to the "Lucene-Core" project, 
even when searching from /solr/? If I am at Solr home page and search 
"tutorial", the first hit should be the Solr tutorial, not the Lucene one.

--
Jan Høydahl, search solution architect
Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com
Solr Training - www.solrtraining.com

On 31. jan. 2012, at 20:38, Grant Ingersoll wrote:

> As many of you know, I've been doing a slow burn on switching us over to the 
> new ASF CMS.  I'm finally at a point where I think we are ready, for the most 
> part, so I'd like to propose we make the leap and switch.  I finally had time 
> to figure out a workaround for INFRA-3850 and have released the logjam caused 
> by that blocker in terms of the L&F of the site.
> 
> You can see the new site at http://lucene.staging.apache.org/.  I've ported 
> almost all of the existing sites and done a lot to make it look better in 
> terms of getting the CSS right, etc.
> 
> The new site is almost dead simple to edit:  
> 
> 1. svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/cms/trunk cms/trunk
> 2. svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/websites/cms/build if you wish 
> to build and test locally
>       a. http://www.apache.org/dev/cmsref.html#local-build for details on 
> building locally.  If you are on a mac, you may need some perl dependencies 
> installed.
>       b. cd asf-cms
>       c. ./build_site.pl --target-base=<path to output on local HTTPd server, 
> I use ~/Sites> --source=../trunk/
> 3.  Edit the files in cms/trunk/content and cms/trunk/templates as you see 
> fit.  When you are satisfied, svn commit.
> 4. Browse to the staging site to see them live.
> 5. TBD: publish to the main site.  I'll figure that out when switching and 
> post.
> 
> Markdown Reference: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
> CMS Reference:  http://www.apache.org/dev/cmsref.html and 
> http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html
> 
> (This info is available on the site at: 
> http://lucene.staging.apache.org/site-instructions.html)
> 
> The whole process is 1000x easier than Forrest.  You can even edit via the 
> web using a WYSWIG editor if you so desire.
> 
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*********************
> Now, here's the kicker, I'd like to switch to the new sites over this weekend 
> or early next week at the latest and then iterate from there.  I don't have a 
> solution for the Core versioned docs yet, but those can be figured out later. 
>  Presumably we can convert them to markdown at some point before the next 
> release and just maintain pointers to the old versions.
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*********************
> 
> So, I'd suggest everyone give it a pass through, fix items as they see them 
> and/or otherwise pitch in and help, because I'm tired of our current site and 
> how poor it makes us look.  
> 
> -Grant
> 
> 
> 
> 

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