Mark Phippard wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Hyrum K. Wright > <hyrum_wri...@mail.utexas.edu> wrote: > >> We need a website at subversion.apache.org. We've put up some placeholder >> pages, and I recently >> started playing with an Anakia-generated site in it's place. I've come >> across a few questions, and they >> are thus: >> >> * What information should be presented? >> * How should we present the information? >> * How do we glue the two together? >> >> The first question is about content, the second about style, and third about >> how we should generate >> the site (manual editing, templating mechanism, etc.) I've got some ideas >> about where to shift the >> content, but I've no eye for style at all. As for the third point, I've >> spent some time playing with Anakia >> (as recommended by the Incubator), but it's kinda unwieldy. In any case, >> I'm interested in what others >> think. >> > > I have not had to do a website like this in years as I've usually been > doing Java web stuff or like what you have on hosting sites. It is > not clear to me why we need a generator though. Most of the look and > feel would just come from style sheets. It seems like there must be > something we can do either in the style sheets or with server-side > includes or something to stick the standard navigation on each page. > That seems like the only bit where a generator helps. >
I agree. Given that we won't have a huge site, we can afford to be a bit careful with the content and leave it at that. Generators are evil. If we really need something more complex than an editor, I'd prefer to use a real CMS. -- Brane
