Website adoption

[william pink]

How about a nice Wordpress driven site? I think it would suit our needs
quite nicely

Will


On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Paul Oldham <paul at the-hug.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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