[Gimp-web] proposal for new site structure

[Karine Delvare]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:13:30 +0000
Ronnie Tucker <ronnie at ronnietucker.co.uk> wrote:

> I was thinking more that when people click News it would take them
> back to the index page where the latest news would be, almost blog
> like, at the bottom of the index page, which is what I think you have?

Yes, the News currently goes back to the index page (not the bottom of
it as the news are in reverse order, more recent one at the top).

As for Screenshots and Features, the content can change a lot, I know
people have something more graphical in mind and I hope the content
will be updated. I think screenshots should stay full screen grabs as
they are, to show some different GIMP setups (like one with jimmac's
dark theme to work on photography, etc...) - while the features page
may have interface details and dialog examples.

> > I'm not sure I understand "include History sections in one page"
> 
> What I meant by that was maybe the seven history pages should be
> rewritten as one single page ?

I don't think so, keeping the original links to the mailing list
archives is nice. But maybe that section could have a bit more details
so that people not wanting to click on each link can read the short
history.

> I should probably have put the download links in a better order in my
> proposal as I would probably put Linux/Unix at the top (with a list
> of RPM's/DEB's etc) then Windows, Mac and Source being last, as i'm
> sure most people do not want to compile the source, this may frighten
> users off...

I will reorder them, it has indeed more sense. I think it's important
to keep the Source submenu, even if not many people coming to the
website are interested in the sources, so last item is ok for me.

> For mailing list, i'd mention that people need to sign up to the
> mailing list before they email to it. I've had a couple of people
> email me thinking their email would show up on the mailing list but
> didn't. They hadn't joined the mailing list first...

David Marrs is working on the mailing list pages as far as I know.

> Again, the getting involved page could maybe do with a rewrite to
> tell people how they go about getting involved in the project.
> Explaining the mailing list, maybe a brief help on getting connected
> to IRC, donation buttons (paypal etc?)...

I'll be able to update that, as that is the subject of the talk I give
at LGM.

> Well, as I said, i'm pretty hopeless with SVN but I can write and do
> graphics stuff so if you need stuff written or screens made up feel
> free to set me a task and i could write stuff and email it to you for
> inclusion? Just let me know whether you'd prefer stuff as html/text.

Anything will do, if you don't provide svn patches I will have to
rework it anyway. Content help is appreciated :)

Karine