Re: [Springframework-developer] New www.springframework.org site is live!

[yanger1997 <yan...@ya...>]

You lost spring Chinese forum link.^_^
http://spring.jactiongroup.net

Yanger

Colin Sampaleanu wrote:

> Erwin Vervaet wrote:
>
>> Just a couple of remarks/questions:
>>
>> * Where are all the links to articles and presentations? The articles 
>> page only lists 2 articles. If I remember correctly there used to be 
>> quite a bit more. Also, the presentations page is just "page not found".
>
>
> The old site is still temporarilly available at
>   http://oldwww.springframework.org.
>
> There were not that many articles. The old site was completely static 
> and maintained by hand, with some stuff being moved off the front page 
> when it got older, mainly news and events. The demo/tutorial stuff is 
> not on the new site yet, that's one thing I can think of.
>
> The basic idea with technical articles and presentations is that 
> people enter a 'story' as the content type, and assign it the 
> "Techincal Article" or "Presentation" category. Then it gets 
> aggregated automatically. We can of course also have a static page for 
> anything that we want, so it may make sense to have static articles 
> and presentation pages, for more important links, and then also have 
> the auto-aggregated page.
>
>> * The submenu under the "links" menu does not reflect the structure. 
>> It only lists "Buttons", but not "Articles" or "Presentations".
>>
>> * If you click "Development > Continuous Build" you go to a somewhat 
>> messed up page that has the old look & feel.
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>
> Will reply to Darren's other message.
>
>>
>> * When you click "Documentation > Books" the menu on the left collapses.
>
>
> This is normal. What you are looking at here is an aggregation page. 
> The contents just get selected based on the category they have.
>
>>
>> * "Documentation > PDF Manual" gives "page not found".
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>
> fixed
>
>>
>> * "About > License" does not link to the license.
>
>
> This was intentional, to the extent that this is the only page on 
> _our_ site that talks about the Spring license. I did want a link on 
> the menu at left for the License, since it's important to a lot of 
> people, and it's hI guess that link could take you directly to the 
> Apache License at Apache. But to me it's a little bit diferent to have 
> a menu link called License (which you do want as it's highly visible) 
> and have that take you to a page which says on it that the license is 
> Apache, then points you to that, than to have that menu like take you 
> directly to the Apache license. The latter action implies something, 
> but doesn't say it.
>
>>
>> * IMHO the font size is a bit on the large side for the "main content 
>> area".
>
>
> This is quite debateable. FirFox/Mozilla can always scale any fonts, 
> but on the other hand if you want people in IE to be able to scale 
> fonts up or down, you have to make fonts be relative, not using fixed 
> pixel sizes. This is how the site is set up now. But in fact if you do 
> that, fonts in FireFox/Mozilla are actually going to look pretty much 
> smaller. As it is, on the 3 systems I've tried the site on, IE looks 
> pretty normal (maybe the headline font for each article could be 
> smaller), but FireFox/Mozilla looks pretty tiny, and for sure needs to 
> be _bigger_. I don't consider the latter that big a deal, as 
> FireFox/Mozilla users are pretty used to scaling stuff as needed. We 
> could actually get the site to look identical in both browsers by 
> using pixel fonts, but then IE users  would lose the ability to scale 
> to a size they need.
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