[Gimp-web] Status of the new web site

[Raphaël Quinet]

It is time for a status update...

>From my point of view, mmmaybe is ready to be launched.  Yosh will
take care of that very soon.  It could even be done by the time you
read this.

Here is a summary of the many things that have been fixed or improved
in the last week:

* Build system:
  - Fixed the order in which files are built and installed by the
    Makefiles (the build was broken when starting from a fresh CVS
    checkout).
  - Fixed the generation of the list of mirrors.
  - Updated the generation of the news.  [Helvetix]
  - Renamed all remaining .html files containing SSI statements to
    .htrw, to ensure that everything can be tested using a web server
    without SSI support.  The .html files without SSI are unchanged.
  - Updated many .cvsignore files.
  - Removed the ChangeLogs section.  To be re-done later.
  - Fixed a major problem with MSIE rendering (bug #122932) caused by
    the comment generated by rewrite_attrs.py and wgo-xhtml-init.

* Layout and templates:
  - Reverted to a table for the page contents instead of div + css.
  - Removed the ability to show or hide the menu.
  - Fixed several layout issues in the style sheet.  [drc]
  - Removed "Resources" and "Contest" from the menus.  [scizzo]
  - Fixed the templates for howtos and admin section.  [scizzo]

* Page contents:
  - Updates to the text of several pages: home page (bug #119210),
    /develop/, /docs/ [scizzo], /links/ [scizzo] and fixed various
    typos [Branko].
  - Updated the list of mirrors.
  - Commented out or removed several broken links.  [scizzo]
  - Re-structured the platform-specific sections (Unix, Windows, Mac,
    OS/2) so that they have a similar structure: "Getting and
    Installing the GIMP" (including links to OS-specific binaries),
    "Requirements", "Configuration", "Help and Documentation".  This
    addresses bug #119537, bug #119538 and bug #119539.  Added some
    links suggested by Mat Caughron.
  - Changed the downloads page to provide links to the binaries that
    are now featured on the platform-specific pages (bug #119562).
    Updated the links to the stable and development versions of the
    source code (links to ftp site).
  - Fixed several XHTML errors in a large number of files.  All files
    should now validate.  [Branko]
  - Added a page describing how other sites can link to us and
    providing several GIMP-related images that can be copied freely.
    Together with a number of redirects for old files, this should
    reduce the number of broken links (bug #116523).

I didn't want to put my name everywhere in the list above, so if an
item has no name next to it, you can assumme that it was done by me.
Check the ChangeLog for details.  Anyway, it is more important to know
what was done and how the site was improved than knowing who did it.

I think that the web site is reasonably stable and usable now.  Thanks
to all those who contributed to it!  After the latest updates, our
visitors should not get too many broken links and they have a good
chance to find what they are looking for.  The site is easier to
navigate now.  There are still many things that can be improved, but
that will be covered by another message (when I have time to write
it).

Thanks again to those who helped to bring the new web site to its
current state.

-Raphaël