Re: [Audacity-devel] A New Audacity Website?

[James C. <cr...@in...>]

Hi JC,

I think there is likely to be a lot of interest in improving our 
website.  Especially things actually at the site that will increase our 
SEO and give better results on the SERP. *Can you say more about what 
plans have you in mind?*


Independently I am looking at a project that is more educational about 
sound, that is likely to generate a coherent collection of CC-licensed 
imagery relating to sound, for use on educational posters.  Some of the 
images planned, because they are designed to work well together, could 
be very useful on our website too.    My project isn't quite ready to 
launch yet, but I'm happy to talk a bit about it off list.



With regards your offer, note that as well as
http://web.audacityteam.org/

we have:
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audacity_Wiki_Home_Page
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Main_Page
and
http://forum.audacityteam.org/

It would be good to connect them with a common theme and look as part of 
this project.

--James.









On 20/04/2015 05:53, Cemra JC wrote:
> Hello Developers,
>
> I want to keep this short, so I'll get straight to the point:
> Would anyone here be willing to work on an upgraded, modern UI for the 
> Audacity website?
>
> If you're not willing or interested, there's no reason for you to 
> continue reading.
>
> Anyway, the real message:
> I understand that much of the effort poured into the Audacity website 
> manifests itself in backend features - written in PHP - which has left 
> some to be wanted for the frontend.
>
> While it will be a fairly involved project that could take a while, I 
> think that it has come of a time that the Audacity website needs to 
> make the transition into a modern UI, and in time, the program can follow.
>
> Although it is shallow, I have seen that the modern consumer is 
> looking for a pretty interface before paying attention to the 
> important parts - amazing functionality (which is already present in 
> the Audacitiy website and software).
>
> If you have read this far, then I assume you're interested in 
> participating.
> Another assumption I will make is that everyone who wants to 
> participate has a thourough understanding of HTML, CSS , JavaScript 
> and PHP. We may need to set up a discussion thread somewhere if this 
> project gets off the ground.
>
> We may need to start a separate discussion thread somewhere if we're 
> going to go through with this.
>
> A disclaimer for young developers: If you only have a thourough 
> understanding of HTML and CSS, I would reccommend looking a little 
> further into the world of manual website creation.
>
> P.S. Or perhaps we could ditch this whole facelift project and just 
> switch over to squarespace [Not a sponsor :D ]
>