[Gimp-web] website proposal

[Sven Neumann]

Hi,

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 00:59 +0000, Ronnie Tucker wrote:

> I'd like to propose that the site be redesigned, by me, with the 'ordinary 
> user' in mind.

A redesign of the GIMP web pages is long overdue. I doubt however that
it is a good idea to let a single person do this. But perhaps you can
find more people interested in this. A team effort to redo the web pages
would be very much welcomed.

> 1) The site is based on a foundation of Joomla. Why Joomla? Because it is open 
> source and would allow the main developers (or team leaders) to each have a 
> log-in and be able to post news and information to the index page.

You can already do that with the current site.

> 2) The site should have a specific page detailing how people should go about 
> volunteering to help Gimp. I know from recent experience that it is 
> incredibly difficult to offer to help. The 'normal user' may not understand 
> nor want to use mailing lists and irc, I feel this wards off potential help.

What kind of help would an ordinary user who does not want to use
mailing-lists and irc be able to offer?

> 3) With Joomla, people who wish to write articles can easily be 
> assigned 'Author' attributes where they can write articles directly onsite.

People can already contribute to the web-site, but still there aren't
many contributions. I don't think that switching to a different content
management system is going to change that. Perhaps it would be best to
concentrate on structure and content before technical questions are
addressed.

> 6) A more structured 'About' page which could possibly have screengrabs of the 
> early versions of Gimp. Not just 'about' gimp but more of a 'history of gimp' 
> page.

How is the history of GIMP particularily useful? People are more
interested in the future of GIMP and that's where the current web-site
sucks. The history is IMO pretty well covered.



Sven