Hi Felix, commons is also in the process of migrating the website. They also have a main site and several sub project sites. Maybe the discussion on commons ML [1] can help you with the felix website.
Regards, Benedikt [1] http://markmail.org/message/amw6yrsgaqj2btug 2012/12/13 Felix Meschberger <fmesc...@adobe.com> > Hi Marcel, > > Am 13.12.2012 um 15:36 schrieb Marcel Offermans: > > > Hey Felix, > > > > I did this a bit earlier in the year for the Apache ACE site, so I can > definitely help out a bit. > > Cool. Thanks. > > Actually, since the Sling site is very similar in setup to the Felix site, > I hope to be able to leverage the same tools that I used for the Sling site > also for the Felix site. > > After that any help is highly appreciated. > > >> > >> (1) We will get immediate site updates: Whenever we change one or more > pages and publish, the change will almost immediately be seen on the web. > There is no multi-hour delay and incertainty any longer > > > > Yes, this is a great advantage. Also, we can "stage" changes, and view > them on a special staging site before we publish them. All in all this is > one of the biggest advantages I've seen so far using the new approach. > > Yes. > > >> > >> When switching I think we should start with a double site: The new site > available directly through the URL at http://felix.apache.org and the old > site still available at http://felix.apache.org/site. This has nice > advantage, that links from the web still work and we can crosscheck the new > pages against the old ones easily. Over time we will remove the old pages > but add (static) redirects to still support the old URLs but redirected to > the new pages. > > > > So you propose that we make the new and old sites 100% identical as a > first step, and then replace the old site with a bunch of redirects, and > then start discussing potential changes and improvements to our site > (layout and content wise)? > > Yes, more or less: My idea is to have the old site still live while we > also have the new site. We can work on improving and fixing the new site > while at the same validating it against the old site. > > Regards > Felix
