On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 10:42 PM Ken Cunningham < ken.cunningham.web...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A set of pages with some screenshots of some of the cool GUI software and > games, like SNAP has for Ubuntu. To piggyback off Ken's statement, as a part of the modernization efforts for the website, it would be nice to have a section or infobox on the MacPorts front page with either a featured "App of the Day" or "App of the Week", similar to what is in the iOS/Mac App Store. Just off the top of my head, I can think of over a dozen candidates, including GIMP, Inkscape, VLC, Blender, Audacity, KeePassXC, Battle for Wesnoth, SuperTuxKart, etc. We could even automatically populate the text of the infobox with the long_description directly from the portfiles. Add some pretty screenshots, and of course, the bottom would always say something like: To install this app using MacPorts, run this command sudo port install gimp in a terminal window. We could even make it so that if a visitor to the website clicks on the text for the "sudo port install" line, it automatically copies the command to their clipboard. I think that just adding this one thing could make the MacPorts website feel more lively and dynamic. I can also help with a redesign or modernization of the public-facing website. I did some professional web design work to put myself through college. I'm more of a web programmer than a graphic designer, but taking good-looking screenshots of apps shouldn't be too difficult. Even better would be to scrape the screenshots directly from the project authors' websites, since they are much more likely to have up-to-date screenshots whenever they make changes to their UI. -- Jason Liu On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 10:42 PM Ken Cunningham < ken.cunningham.web...@gmail.com> wrote: > various people have come along with some good ideas over the five years > I’ve been around. > > A set of pages with some screenshots of some of the cool GUI software and > games, like SNAP has for Ubuntu. > > A rewrite of the very old and dated and cobwebby website. > > To be honest — these people in the end have not been encouraged to > proceed. “I’ll get to that” or “Who is going to do that?” or “Why should we > do that?” are far more common responses. > > So — start there, I would volunteer. > > Ken