Yay. Also can I add a home page suggestion. We take advantage of the
carousel to be able to show case tracks as well as anything that might be
of importance.
On 28 Jul 2014 17:44, "Tres Finocchiaro" <tres.finocchi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Before we buy a domain it would be nice to make an initiative to refresh
> our web page.
>
> The current page was built long before mobile browsers were prominent so
> does not scale well with smaller page sizes. Furthermore, it could use a
> re-branding effort to bring it modern with our 1.0 software palette and
> leverage some niceties with more recent versions of CSS.
>
> I'd like to kick off this initiative and also nominate myself to lead.
>
> I propose myself to lead this because I can write php and I feel I can
> coordinate our talents to get this done in a timely fashion. If we march
> forward, this is what I propose:
>
> Content: (some of this has been started)
>
> - A new home page which auto-feeds the following items:
> - Release notes from GitHub using api.github
> - Downloads from GitHub using api.github
> - A community page which auto-feeds:
> - News from Facebook using Graph API (may also appear on front page)
> - Bugs (recently added or highly active) from GitHub tracker using
> api.github
> - Travis-CI build status
> - Devel mailing list topics (recently added or highly active) from
> internet archive
> - A demo's page which contains:
> - LMMS Artist album widget
> - Playable demo tracks (html5, et al)
> - A slightly restyled LSP to match the new design (content would
> remain the same).
> - Add-free forums converted to vanilla phpbb3
> - Designate moderators
> - Designate fixing of sf accounts to stand-alone account.
>
> Design:
>
> - Boostrap CSS for layout, minimal JavaScript when needed for mobile
> (disabling JS won't break page functionality)
> - Shared menu bar with drop-downs as needed (direct links to popular
> developer and community resources without navigating to a dedicated page).
> - Leverage responsive, industry standard layout techniques to flow
> properly on various screen sizes.
> - Branding and content delivery improvements (make best use of space,
> offer elements in order of popularity, etc).
>
> Timeline:
>
> - 2 weeks
>
> Team: (so far)
>
> - Tres, LukasW, Jonathan, Digitizer (others welcome)
>
> Staging Location:
>
> - TuxFamily hosting (permanence not yet decided)
>
> Live Demos (WIP):
>
> - Home page <http://lmms.tuxfamily.org/index.php>
> - Community page <http://lmms.tuxfamily.org/community.php>
>
>
> Please provide your thoughts or even a yay/nay if that's easier. I think
> a two week timeline is reasonable given the amount of progress we've
> already had and based on the team of helpers.
>
> Some disclaimers... :) Without going too off-topic, the developer
> community is well aware that we are looking to get a domain name and
> hosting. Those decisions are still up in the air. I'd instead like this
> discussion to talk about the high-level refresh of the home page.
> Furthermore, the LSP rewrite is still underway which will have some
> duplication of effort. LukasW is aware and we've agreed to allow this
> natural overlap.
>
>
>
> - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com
>
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