[Gimp-web] CMS and face-lift

[Sven Neumann]

Hi,

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 23:35 +0000, Ronnie Tucker wrote:

> 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.

You can't have a large site such as www.gimp.org with just pure HTML.
That would mean copying the page headers, footers and navigation bar to
each and every page. That wouldn't be a problem, but think about what
happens if you want to change something there. Try to imagine how much
work it would have been for Jimmac to adjust the look and feel if he
would have had to edit each and every page.

Nothing wrong with keeping things simple, but pure HTML would be too
simple.


Sven