Website adoption

[Paul Oldham]

Well web sites is what I do for a living these days so I suppose I should
say something on this thread as no one else has put there head above the
parapet.

On Wed, August 13, 2008 12:44, Wawrzyniec Niewodniczañski said:

> There were some discussion about CamLUG website, but there was not
> final conclusion. I would like to change it and take responsibility
> for our website. To do this I need some kind of access to the server.
>
>
> My plan:
> Based on our discussion I think that website should consist of very
> static 'gate' which can link to other CamLug related resources (wiki,
> blog planet etc.)
> The entry webpage  should be time-independent as much as possible. It
> looks horrible to have two years old message on the first page.

Yup, no argument there. When the latest news is dated 2006 that's not
good. I like the idea of a Wiki for the site: a good place for people to
put "stuff" easily.

> At the moment I've concentrated on gate. My first attempt can be access
> here:
>
> http://wawrzek.name/CamLUG

Hmmm ... there are some problems with that page. Personally I don't like
the general look of it (what are those symbols at the start of the
paragraphs for? what have they got to do with Linux?) but that's just
aesthetics.

The use of italics for the main body font is more of a worry. It makes the
text harder to read on some browser/font combinations (for example it
looks bloody horrible here on Opera, but better on Firefox as they use
different default fonts and I don't think you're setting the font-family).
That therefore had disability discrimination issues.

I'm also concerned that you're going to need a proof reader if you're
going to be responsible for content as there's a fair number of minor
typos in there. Is that just because you did it in a hurry or do you
really think, for example, that "center" is spelled that way in British
English?

I'm also not wild about "I prefer [the] second version". Who is "I"?

God, that all sounds horribly negative. Sorry.

But fundamentally you're right: the web site does need stripping back to
something a *lot* simpler and basically static with a link to the mailing
list (do we have an archive?). And perhaps a Wiki too.
-- 
Paul