Re: [Gramps-devel] Friendly Introductory Website

[Doug B. <dou...@gm...>]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Benny Malengier
<ben...@gm...> wrote:
> Yes Jason,
>
> your mockups look great. I like your choice of green!
> As you know, internationalization is important, so also good to make
> language selection prominent, but not show an enourmous list of
> languages (we have 12 on the wiki now).
>
> Download page should contain prominent the version number of the
> current stable release I think
>
> We have started to communicate with Gramps instead of GRAMPS, as it
> appears I was one of the only ones who liked the all big caps. I'm not
> sure how that would translate to this design. I suppose all big caps
> does not give a problem in the title, just 'Gramps' might not come
> over so good. On the other hand, we could use a specific font, bold
> smallcaps eg for the ramps :-).
>
> Your idea of reusing the wordpress blog for this sounds like an
> easiest thing to do. It already needs upgrades anyway.
> You should contact Nick Wallingford (see to list of email for his
> address) for any technical issues, as he is the one that manages
> wordpress and wikimedia install, so he can do in coordination with you
> any changes in site order that might be needed.
>
> Going from the site to the wiki and back, should be transparent somehow.
>
> As Doug says, release of 3.2 is for end of first week of March, but
> unlike him, I don't want to put pressure on you. It's already great
> you consider doing such things in your free time!

(Sorry, Jason, if I put pressure on you! I only meant that this is a
great opportunity to announce a fresh new design, and show off your
work at the same time that we have a lot of other buzz. Deadlines are
a great way to get something accomplished, but feel free to work at
your own pace. We all do. I'd like to see you be able to flex your
artistic muscles, and have some freedom over the design. It sounds
like you have support to get started... let us know if you need any
assistance with anything. -Doug)

>
> Benny
>
>
> 2010/2/14 Doug Blank <dou...@gm...>:
>> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Jason Simanek <jsi...@gm...> wrote:
>>> Hey Gramps,
>>>
>>> I would like to once again propose the creation of a more-friendly
>>> homepage + one or two other pages to help promote Gramps to a wider
>>> audience. I know we've discussed it in the past, but I couldn't remember
>>> quite where we ended up. With a year or so more of web
>>> design/development experience I do have a slightly different
>>> perspective. I think I also have enough time this year to actually
>>> create these pages for the project.
>>>
>>> I have some mockups:
>>>
>>> Homepage
>>> http://bohemianalps.com/GRAMPS/website_proofs/Gramps_homepage_2010-02.png
>>>
>>> Features
>>> http://bohemianalps.com/GRAMPS/website_proofs/Gramps_features_2010-02.png
>>>
>>> Download
>>> http://bohemianalps.com/GRAMPS/website_proofs/Gramps_download_2010-02.png
>>>
>>>
>>> The features page got a little funky when I exported it out of Inkscape.
>>> Please excuse the mess, but hopefully you get the idea. I'm thinking it
>>> could be similar to Firefox's features page with images of the interface
>>> and text describing the image.
>>>
>>> example
>>> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/
>>>
>>> Last time we all discussed, I think I had convinced some that WordPress
>>> was a good solution for a CMS. WordPress IS STILL a great CMS, but I am
>>> beginning to wonder if having a CMS for a small site composed of very
>>> few pages is complete overkill. Having a CMS means applying security
>>> updates and maybe even upgrades once or twice a year, eventual database
>>> maintenance, the list goes on.
>>>
>>> If Wikimedia is going to continue to be the way we manage most of our
>>> website content, I propose that these introductory pages be plain old
>>> HTML files (or PHP files outputting HTML). Constructed properly, the
>>> pages will be relatively easy to update.
>>>
>>> Unless, of course, you think it would be a better idea to migrate the
>>> current Gramps-blog from blog.gramps-project.org to
>>> gramps-project.org/blog and we could use this existing WordPress install
>>> to also maintain these few introductory pages.
>>>
>>> Looking forward to 3.2,
>>
>> Jason,
>>
>> I think that this would be a great thing to do, and the timing
>> couldn't be better (if we could get something in place in the next
>> three weeks). Thank you for stepping up and offering to do this!
>>
>> One way forward would be to start with a special page, perhaps something like:
>>
>> http://gramps-project.org/start
>>
>> Where "start" could be whatever you all decide (download, go, etc).
>> Then you can install whatever CMS/system you want (if not already
>> there).
>>
>> After some time, we can migrate blogs etc if it makes sense.
>>
>> I'd vote to get this alternate splash-like page up soon, and get Jason
>> whatever he needs to get started. It doesn't necessarily have to have
>> much impact (at first)on the wiki, but the CSS could be adjusted there
>> as well.
>>
>> -Doug
>>
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