Hi,

I wonder if it's time to change the design of the Lazarus web site to a more "web 2.0" and shinier look.

Ido

ik wrote

Hi, I wonder if it's time to change the design of the Lazarus web site to a more "web 2.0" and shinier look.

Can you do that?

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.

If you'll give me permissions, I'm willing to find time to do it :)

Ido

I know "web 2.0" is very popular, but please don't make it _too_ shiny and new. It should still be a serious website.

You are welcome to offer a skin then :) I still don't know what version of postnuke is it so it's hard to start looking for one.

Ido

No, I didn't mean it like that :-)

I think it's really great that you want to do this work. I hope to see the result soon.

I still don't know what version of postnuke is it so it's hard to start looking for one.

Hmm, can't help you there, sorry.

2008/3/11, ik :

I am in a bad period, but I can help you in a few months ;)

ik wrote

I wonder if it's time to change the design of the Lazarus web site to a more "web 2.0" and shinier look.

Some things I consider important about it:

* It needs to offer the same capabilities as the current one. i.e. news are and forum
* It needs to be able to import the current existing news and forum content
* I like the current fpc website look. Ours could be similar, but it needs to offer a much larger news section and attend the other requisites I mentioned
* The code of the website should be on public subversion, like the fpc website. We can open a new sub-repository for it on our subversion.

thanks,

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ?????:

* The code of the website should be on public subversion, like the fpc website. We can open a new sub-repository for it on our subversion.

You want to reinvent a wheel? Can't we use phpBB3 and joomla1.5? Then we need no line of our own code.

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.

Paul Ishenin wrote

You want to reinvent a wheel? Can't we use phpBB3 and joomla1.5? Then we need no line of our own code.

Ain't that our current solution? I don't remember exactly which content management system the current lazarus website is based at, but it's already based on one, so what would change then?

I'd migrate to something like how the fpc website works (don't know exactly how it works) because that system seams to work very well there. Better then the lazarus website. I don't think it's a big wheel reinvention. Just a lot of ctrl+c / ctrl+v

Not to mention the old plan of merging the websites: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Merging_Lazarus_and_FPC#Website

A CMS centralizes work at the administrator, and I'm thus we get dependent on a administrator. Having just code makes it easy for anyone to fix the website.

thanks,

The CMS is postnuke, and it can have skins inside. I didn't talked about replacing the CMS, only changing the style.

Ido

Thank you, and I hope you'll put it behind you in few days instead of months :)

Ido

ik wrote

The CMS is postnuke, and it can have skins inside. I didn't talked about replacing the CMS, only changing the style.

we can at least upgrage it to the latest stable version

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.

What is the postnuke version anyway ?!

Ido

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote

I'd migrate to something like how the fpc website works (don't know exactly how it works) because that system seams to work very well there.

Just templates, a FPC program that combines the templates and some scripts to operate them (unfortunately some of them being in TCL, since that's Daniel's pet).

Moreover, the PHP tools turn out to be not exactly maintenance friendly. Any webcrawler can bring the site down, and keep in mind that Lazarus/FPC sites must be Slashdot/Heise proof.

What do you think will happen when Lazarus 1.0 makes slashdot?