On 13.12.2017 14:26, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > During the hackathon in Aachen we discussed our website, and whether > we should / could update its look and feel a bit. This is separate > from our wiki, which we already intend to move to the ASF confluence > wiki (still working on that, whenever I have some spare minutes). > > I asked on [email protected] for guidelines or tips [1]. Didn't get > much out of it unfortunately, except a couple of references to > required links ([2], [3]) and branding policy [4]. Looking at other > ASF projects, there is clearly a lot of diversity, but some definitely > look more modern, and some look oldish :-). > > I'm a total noob on website design, so I'm not going to go further > with this myself. But if anyone would like to work on this and try > some things, that'd be great. I suppose a lot can be accomplished by > tweaking the css and related UI stuff. > > I think we should be able to try out various things on > subversion-staging, and discuss what people think about it etc ... Or > perhaps it would be better to set up another branch of our website, > specifically for working on the design (subversion-design.apache.org > or whatever). > > Some things to keep in mind: > - Don't break existing links. > - Watch out for requirements ([2], [3], [4]).
- Stop using server-side includes. As it is, Infra has to be reminded to turn on SSI whenever they migrate our site to a new server. -- Brane
