On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Martin Frb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/12/2013 09:15, Danny Weldon wrote: >> Maybe we need a bit more information on the Lazarus home page about it.
I think in a very opposite way. The main page should have less information. It should be clear, elegant and attractive. It should give the most essential information for a casual visitor in few seconds, before he continues to some other page. If the visitor got interested, there must be a visible and easy Download/Install button so he can test it. The page now fulfills those requirements and I am happy for that, but it also has useless clutter which makes it look messy. For example Recent Forum Posts don't belong to the main page IMO. I expressed this same opinion also earlier but other people wanted all that clutter and I am OK with it. Martin, apparently you are getting private mails about the page. Do you also have patches for it? As a coincidence I got private mail from Christian Sciberras. He has revamped and modernized the PHP code but not touched the page contents. Especially the template engine was old and needed a revamp (according to him). The sources are here if somebody wants to have a look : https://github.com/uuf6429/LazarusWebsite I will test it ASAP (sorry Christian I didn't do it yet), and maybe put it in Lazarus test server for everybody to test. If it works as advertised, I will accept it. Tomorrow is a national holiday here and I will spend time for Lazarus project then. What about the patches that do change the contents? I was waiting for content changes already a long time. Who will be the final judge for them? They are always a matter of opinion. If I am in a position to accept/reject those (hypothetical) patches, I fill follow my idea of a clear and elegant web page which respects the heritage of the project. We will see when we get those patches... Juha -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
