Re: [Chicken-users] Homepage design proposal

2015-01-23 Thread Alex Stuart
I support moving the download and documentation sections to the top of the page. I always have trouble finding the link to the manual. --Alex On 2015-01-23 08:01, Bahman Movaqar wrote: On 01/23/2015 07:25 PM, Peter Bex wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 07:17:17PM +0330, Bahman Movaqar wrote: I

Re: [Chicken-users] Homepage design proposal

2015-01-23 Thread Matt Gushee
Hi, Bahman-- On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Bahman Movaqar bah...@bahmanm.com wrote: I strongly disagree with using CHICKEN for the website. Let's keep things simple by using the right tool for the job. I'd like to challenge that statement. As a (trying-to-be-professional) web developer who

Re: [Chicken-users] Homepage design proposal

2015-01-23 Thread Matt Gushee
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Matt Gushee m...@gushee.net wrote: These days there are some good static website generators out there, like JBake and Jekyll, with which one can use HTML or asciidoc or Markdown to generate a static website. Sorry. Peter mentioned a static site generator, and

Re: [Chicken-users] Homepage design proposal

2015-01-23 Thread Matt Gushee
Hi, Tim and everyone-- I've been meaning to comment on this topic for some time, but I am somewhat afraid to express my opinions on this list (I hasten to add that that has nothing to do with anyone's behavior here - just my own feeling of being hopelessly outclassed in this community. Plus the

Re: [Chicken-users] Homepage design proposal

2015-01-23 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi Tim, On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:24:18 +0900 Tim van der Linden t...@shisaa.jp wrote: In the recent light of visual changes to the wiki, I have picked up an old(er) idea to have my go at a redesign of the homepage (landing page, front page, the-first-page, etc...). I, for one, find our

[Chicken-users] Homepage design proposal - part 2

2015-01-23 Thread Tim van der Linden
Hi All Forgive me for skipping out of the running Homepage design proposal thread with top posting a new message. I simply want to distill the great comments I got so far (thanks everyone!) on the first rough draft of the homepage, so we can keep all the information together. Let me run over

Re: [Chicken-users] Homepage design proposal

2015-01-23 Thread Kristian Lein-Mathisen
Yeah, that makes sense. I guess we're stuck with a server-side solution unless we can get Chicken running on this little emulator http://bellard.org/jslinux/. repl.it may be of inspiration! Thanks, K. On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Yaroslav Tsarko eriktsa...@googlemail.com wrote: Kristian,

Re: [Chicken-users] Homepage design proposal

2015-01-23 Thread Peter Bex
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 07:17:17PM +0330, Bahman Movaqar wrote: I strongly disagree with using CHICKEN for the website. Let's keep things simple by using the right tool for the job. I think you're mixing up two things. One is the tool to generate the website and the other is the online try

Re: [Chicken-users] Homepage design proposal

2015-01-23 Thread Bahman Movaqar
On 01/23/2015 07:25 PM, Peter Bex wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 07:17:17PM +0330, Bahman Movaqar wrote: I strongly disagree with using CHICKEN for the website. Let's keep things simple by using the right tool for the job. I think you're mixing up two things. One is the tool to generate the

Re: [Chicken-users] Homepage design proposal

2015-01-23 Thread Bahman Movaqar
I strongly disagree with using CHICKEN for the website. Let's keep things simple by using the right tool for the job. These days there are some good static website generators out there, like JBake and Jekyll, with which one can use HTML or asciidoc or Markdown to generate a static website.