[Gimp-web] New page layout and new menu

[Raphaël Quinet]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 17:12:10 +0200, Niklas Mattisson <scizzo@gimp.org> wrote:
> One question though....what would be the big difference with using
> wgo.css and default.css? It does not make much sense to me why the name
> change would make a difference.

No, this is not a big thing.  It's just that I thought that it was
better to have only "wgo.css" and "wgo.js" for the style sheet and
script, respectively.  Also, "default.css" made sense if there was
also another one ("extended.css"), but if the "default.css" is used
alone (except in the admin pages, maybe) then the name looked a bit
redundant.  This is only a minor detail.

> However I don't know if we should actually change more code at the
> moment before we have the main content fixed. Because we could fix the
> tables and such right before the release is done at the moment the
> support for the other browsers is not my main consern. Here is a list of
> things that is my main consern:
> 
> - Get the menu fixed the way it should look on the new site.

That's what I tried to do in my test page.

> - Get the info from "GIMP for Unix" to "GIMP from Source" and work with
> thoose so that we have good content and links in them.

This will be done in a few minutes.  I haven't had the time to commit
my changes yet, but I will do that soon.  I only moved a few files,
though.

> - Fix the layout and content of "Getting Involved" so we can have
> everyone look at it and write feedback.

I have also made some changes to that pages.  This is not finished
yet, but maybe it looks a bit better now.

> - Fix the small problems with the content reported on bugzilla.

We will certainly not fix all of them.  In fact, I expect that most of
the problems will still be open after the launch.  But we should try
to fix them as soon as possible, of course.

> So I belive that yes the layout should be done soon but I am myself more
> interested in the menu and bugs then the layout. Questions about the new
> layout:
> 
> - Are the files going to be static files?

This is something that Helvetix should comment on.  If you look at the
pages served by mmmaybe, you will see that they contain the comment
from the script rewrite-attrs.py, which seems to indicate that they
have been converted to static files.  However, when I build the pages
at home, I am still getting the SSI version (even after "make clean").
Maybe there is something wrong with my setup?

Anyway, it is very likely that all files will be static.

> - Will this remove the include files?

Not for the moment.  The static files are still generated by emulating
the SSI mechanism.  In the future, it would be nice if this could be
replaced by a solution based on "real" templates instead of requiring
multiple "include" statements in each file.  But the current solution
is working and I am happy with it.

> - Could you wait to change all of the sites to use the new layout until
> we have finished up with the content?

Hmmm...  No, I would like to implement the new layout right now so
that we can have at least the modified menu (with the link to the
"source" part).  Also, in the new content that I am about to commit,
there is a new page explaining how to contact the webmasters and I
would like this to be linked from the new layout (replacing the
current e-mail address).  So unless there is a compelling reason to
delay my commit, I would like to implement the changes to the layout
and content at the same time.

-Raphaël