Re: Alternate PostgreSQL.org Design - Mailing list pgsql-www

Is the new website going to be rolled out in time for the 8.0 release,
which could be in the next few weeks?

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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Omar,
>
> > We believe that it is clean, professional and simple. And it makes the
> > release of 8.0 actually... exciting. :)
>
> I like the organization of content.   I find the graphics a bit HP-ish, but
> that's work-on-able.  It's certainly less crowded than our current design,
> and you've done a nice job making things a lot more intuitively findable.
>
> > It is a *drop-in* replacement for the current pgweb design. No
> > additional work is required to retrofit the current wwwdevel design.
> > It's already done!
>
> Keen, this makes a discussion about it more useful.   Thank you for going the
> extra mile and dealing with some of the drill-down pages; it really gives us
> an idea of how you envision the site being organized.
>
> > We've gone through a bit of the current content and fixed it up with
> > proper headings and so forth. But we believe that the content needs to
> > be restructured to fit within navigational guide lines.
>
> No arguments here ... see the collected archives of www.
>
> > * The overuse of subdomains is a major pain. Each subdomain uses a
> > completely different layout and design. X.postgresql.org should be under
> > the relevant section on the main site. Advocacy should move under
> > /about/. Developers has it's own section. Tech docs should move under
> > Documentation, etc.
>
> We've had a consolidation plan for over a year.   Really, you should engage
> more of a dialoge in the WWW list and talk to us about what's already
> planned.
>
> Techdocs is one hitch; article generation/editing needs to be handled by some
> kind of online text editor.   Otherwise we limit contributors to the current
> WWW team and nothing gets written.
>
> Of course, it would also be a really good idea to have any part of the site
> requiring significant maintenance .... such as the list of GUIs, the
> contributor list, or consulting companies ... to be editable via simple text
> editor or html form instead of via raw XHTML.   This would allow the general
> pool of documentation volunteers -- which is 5x large than WWW volunteers --
> to maintain these areas.
>
> --
> Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco
>
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