[Gimp-web] CMS and face-lift

[Ronnie Tucker]

> Message: 2
> Hi,
> You have a point but we should face the fact that we could possibly have
> more contributors for the web site if we made it easier to contribute.
> Using a widely known CMS that is well documented and used by other sites
> would make it easier.
> Sven

If people need to contribute then someone, somewhere, must surely take 
responsibility for checking the article for accuracy before it becomes live 
and thats where a CMS solution would be ideal BUT... in saying that; what I 
mean by overkill is that maybe the site should just be pure, bog standard, 
HTML. A webmaster (or several) would make simple HTML alterations to 
necessary pages and upload the new version to the server.

I'm sorry if i maybe put it a tad brash or didn't put my point across 
correctly i'm just thinking that the current site and way of doing this is a 
but overly complicated for the relatively simple job it does, so I do agree 
with what you say above.

I suppose the best analogy would be; don't use a sledgehammer to crack a nut.



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> Message: 6
> Hi GIMP webbers(?)!
> After Karine helped moving the work-in-progress release notes over to
> gimp.org, I looked at how the website is actually organized and started
> giving the stylesheets a bit of a face-lift.
> I think the 2.4 release deserves a bigger bang than a simple changelog
> like usually. I have been playing with a local copy of mine, but would
> like to merge things in so we can all work on it as my time is limited.
> http://gimp-web.jimmac.net/
> I'm not exactly sure how to do this best as this isn't a gradual
> improvement of the site, but rather a 2.4 release jump. I wonder if we
> should branch the site for 2.4?
> Let's rock

I think the layout looks excellent, very professional. 

If you do manage the update, please feel free to use my previous proposal for 
a page reshuffle if you wish and if you need any help in rewriting pages 
then, again, feel free to give me a shout... i'm more than willing to help...



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Ronnie

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