[Xerte-dev] Re: Community Website
Tom Reijnders
reijnders at tor.nl
Thu Apr 25 14:53:48 BST 2013
Can you please try to clean the cache?
it's not what I see here.... also for the english version:
Op 25-4-2013 15:48, Julian Tenney schreef:
>
> Nope:
>
> *From:*xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Tom
> Reijnders
> *Sent:* 25 April 2013 14:36
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Community Website
>
> Op 25-4-2013 15:29, Julian Tenney schreef:
>
> It looks way different in FF to Chrome:
>
> Chrome looks not too bad:
>
> But FF is ugly
>
> IE is better
>
> *From:*Alistair McNaught [mailto:Alistair.McNaught at HEAcademy.ac.uk]
> *Sent:* 25 April 2013 13:57
> *To:* Julian Tenney; For Xerte technical developers
> (xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>)
> *Cc:* Inge Donkervoort 12Change (i.donkervoort at 12change.eu
> <mailto:i.donkervoort at 12change.eu>); 'Fay Cross'
> (Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk <mailto:Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk>);
> Nuno Jorge (Nuno.Jorge at nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:Nuno.Jorge at nottingham.ac.uk>)
> *Subject:* RE: Community Website
>
> That's very odd -- I can't replicate those issues (except the
> typography styles -- that's a consequence of things being written
> by different people at different times and not yet having evolved
> a style guide).
>
> The whole point -- to me -- about a community site is that it will
> evolve. If we're encouraging community wider contribution we'll
> need to accept a level of stylistic difference. I'm not getting
> any jumping around of panels etc and I'm finding all the resources
> I expected to on the Resources page.
>
> I think the question of whether a community site is ready to be
> launched is a question for the community to decide and this little
> bit of the community in southern England feels the benefits of the
> site for new users far outweigh any current problems. What does
> the rest of the community feel?
>
> We were planning on launching the site to the public tomorrow so a
> consensus (or at least a quorum) view would be welcome sooner
> rather than later!
>
> Alistair
>
> *From:*Julian Tenney [mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk]
> *Sent:* 25 April 2013 13:41
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> (xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>)
> *Cc:* Alistair McNaught; Inge Donkervoort 12Change
> (i.donkervoort at 12change.eu <mailto:i.donkervoort at 12change.eu>);
> 'Fay Cross' (Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk>); Nuno Jorge
> (Nuno.Jorge at nottingham.ac.uk <mailto:Nuno.Jorge at nottingham.ac.uk>)
> *Subject:* Community Website
>
> 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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