[Xerte-dev] Re: Community Website

[Tom Reijnders]

I do not entirely agree.

But as long as we have 1 location for the generated zips... it's fine 
with me at the moment.


Op 25-4-2013 14:41, Julian Tenney schreef:
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> I have to say, I'm not sure the community web site is ready for public 
> consumption. If I go there now, the links are all inconsistent and 
> wrap badly, the login box isn't aligned, I couldn't find the 
> downloads, and I'm just not very happy with the way it looks. When you 
> navigate around the pages, the panels jump about. There is 
> inconsistent typography in headings, margins, line breaks and font 
> sizes, the resources page doesn't contain any resources, the resource 
> panel is repeated on both the showcases and resources page, the FAQ 
> page has styles all of its own and there's a ton other stuff: it's all 
> just a bit of a mess if you ask me.
>
> I'm not putting down the work that has gone into it, but I know we can 
> do a lot better than this: it just doesn't feel finished, and it 
> doesn't inspire me with confidence in the tools.
>
> At the moment I would prefer to put v2.0 on the main Xerte web site 
> and direct people there, and we can continue working on the community 
> site now we've got this tranche of development work out of the way. We 
> can re-visit the styling of the application as well at the same time, 
> and make the two work together: Nuno applied the same set of styles to 
> toolkits this week, and it didn't work very well.
>
> So here's my recommendation: we put v2.0 on the Xerte site as we 
> always have done (or link directly from there to Tom's zip, without 
> letting the user see the community site if they follow the link from 
> www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte <http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte>: they 
> just get the downloaded zip). Then we properly finish the community 
> site, and re-skin toolkits in the next batch of work.
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