I need assistance with a few things. It's really just getting stuff setup so that I can continue working on the website. I currently feel like I'm at a bit of a deadend right now.
So far I have the About and Documentation pages done with the exception of a couple of pages and filler content/images. I plan to work a bit with adding a bit more colour to the website and making hyperlinks a little more obvious, but this is something that can easily changed with the CSS once the majority of content is in place. A few questions that I have, and things that would be nice to get setup: Merch 1) How exactly does the current Merch page work? What's the best approach to give it the same design as the rest of the website? Am I right in thinking that you can include a header/footer file on Spreadshirt, and then you have to style the body markup to the best of your CSS hacking ability? Some insight in this would be helpful, as I know nothing about Spreadshirt. Blog 2) I need a way to (possibly) get WordPress setup in this branch, or at least a way in which I know the template files are actually working right. Simply assuming the template works without seeing it live would prove to be a complete PITA. 3) Blog categories - Currently they appear heavily abused, and the majority of content (maybe 80%+) is filed under 'Uncategorized', which is a totally pointless category. I feel categories have no worth if there's only the 1 blog post set under a category tag, which is the case with at least half of the current categories. My main concern is that there's just simply too many category tags to look appealing on the new website. It'll just come across as a wall of text at the side. Cleaning these up would prove to be quite a huge (and very boring) task, especially tagging all the older entries... but ideally I feel there should be no more than 15-20 categories. My understanding is that it's general blogging practice to not have so many, and to keep things as broad as possible. Some better examples would be 'Fun', 'Development', 'Apple', 'Release', 'Beta', etc. I don't have access to Adium's Google Analytics so I have no real world data on how often people actually use these, but I'm going to assume it's not enough for them to be missed by many. So to my real question (assuming no one is willing to go ahead and clean them up) - Would anyone be against me hiding categories on the new website? They'd still exist, but just wouldn't be shown. Xtras 4) I need a way to skin the adiumxtras website. I suppose an adiumxtras-rewrite branch needs to be setup.
