This all sounds great. I wouldn't worry about L&F right away... better to get this up so we can start improving content even more :)
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Gert Vanthienen <[email protected] > wrote: > L.S., > > > With the Apache ServiceMix 4.4.0 release coming up, I would like to move > ahead and promote the new website as well. We haven't really finished the > new look and feel, but we do have a working copy in > http://servicemix.apache.org/staging/ based on the current look and feel > of > the website. > > A while ago, I stripped all the non-relevant contents from the staged > website and today I added the a new download page too (cfr. > http://servicemix.apache.org/staging/downloads.html) to clarify the > different download options we will have available with 4.4.0. There's > still some content missing but at least the new site does a much better job > at pointing people to ServiceMix 4 instead of earlier editions. That's why > I would like to promote this staged copy somewhere in the next few days and > then iron out the issues as we get feedback from users over the next few > weeks. > > If that's OK for everyone, I think the required steps to promote the > website are: > - modify the crontab entries that move the current exported wiki site to > e.g. http://servicemix.apache.org/3.x > - modify the download pages in the new website to look like the 4.4.0 one > - add a link to the old site from the new website > - publish the new website and remove any stale pages left over by the old > export > - (let me know if I missed anything here) > > > For the documentation, we have been trying in the past to get those pages > to look exactly the same as the main website. The current look for those > pages (http://servicemix.apache.org/docs/4.4.0/) is based on an old > prototype from the main website. How about removing most of that layout > for now and just do something simple with the same icons/color scheme/... > as the main website but without trying to reproduce all the > headers/navigation/...? The downside is that the documentation will not > 'blend into' the website as it does now, but it will allow us to make a > more clear navigation for the documentation on itself. Personally, I think > this will be a better solution in the long run anyway, but we can always > blend things together again once we worked out the final look and feel for > the website as well. > > > Regards, > > Gert Vanthienen > ------------------------ > FuseSource > Web: http://fusesource.com > Blog: http://gertvanthienen.blogspot.com/ > -- Cheers, Jon --------------- FuseSource Email: [email protected] Web: fusesource.com Twitter: jon_anstey Blog: http://janstey.blogspot.com Author of Camel in Action: http://manning.com/ibsen
