Hi Guys, This is really up to those in charge to take the decision but the hosting offer still stands. SF can be a huge pain in the rump though.
Jonathan Aquilina On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 10:15 AM D Blakeley via Freecol-developers < freecol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hi guys, > > A few things to reply to! > > *Mike:* > I think Winter is after your thoughts/approval on his new site ideas. Also > I have just posted at this link below, if you could spare a moment to help > out a fellow Aussie I'd appreciate it thanks haha. Should be the last time > I have to pester you about a big sourceforge change as this really is the > last thing it needs to help your fans navigate to the right places! After > this in the future it just might be a thread sticky or 2 which I can pester > David about. > https://sourceforge.net/p/freecol/discussion/719661/thread/42b0844f/#a702/9e85/07a6/d983/f301 > > *Winter:* > *> No, I do not want the website to gain even more warnings. I was hoping > we could* > *> decide on which pages with warnings are still useful, which could be > deleted.* > > Opps sorry I misread that part as I thought winter was referring to > heavily outdated sections of the site not labeled as such. Everyone ignore > what I said on that bit lol. > > *Jonathan:* > > *> I would be willing to sponsor some webhosting on my shared cpanel > server.* > *> I was thinking of setting up wordpress for the site?* > > Your later point was certainly what I was thinking as Wordpress is so darn > low maintenance and easy to use and controls the annoying sorting & > navigation of all the news items for you. Creating pages and posts is dead > easy too as its pretty much like a word doc editing but if you want full > control then you can access the html code behind the page editor too. It's > also pretty good for setting up separate non-news page sections too. Eg all > those project info and history pages etc could easily be copy & pasted to > wordpress section pages accessed through a wordpress main menu similar to > the existing sites menu options. Wordpress menu buttons also support drop > down options meaning all sub sections from the old site could be easily > brought across too. I use a wordpress blog for all my website news now > (separate from my main website thats store elsewhere), I don't use drop > down menus but if you click on either my 'Fav Fan Game Projects' or my > 'What's Blake Playing Right NOW' buttons you'll be taken to wordpress > hosted sections that are NOT part of the news blog. > https://blakessanctum.wordpress.com/ > > *Winter:* > > *> IIRC, one problem with this was the goal to keep all parts of the > project> on a single provider (like SF or GitHub).* > > But yeah as winter points out I don't think they want offsite hosting, as > fully accessible public hosting is better for everyone to help out on. I'm > not sure if a wordpress built site can be put into a SF/Github hosted area > but if it can then I'd be all for that as I can EASILY help in all areas of > moving content across and adding new news items etc. > > > *> Yes, I always found it the right decision to stop using a CMS, > especially* > > > > > > > > > > *> when nobody can commit to updating it regularly. I only have about a > month> before starting in my new job, not sure how much time I have then. > That's> why my main concern is to get the website into a fixed, sustainable > state> without need of much maintenance soon.> For that, I'd just like to > have it in a way to not need every news 3 times> and having links updated > automatically.> Maybe the way to get that could be static page generation > for news articles> before uploading? We would not need anything fancy, if > it could just find> a few magic tags in slightly modified current pages and > add articles from> text files and generate links to the articles, it would > be sufficient.* > > Well good thing I've got the next month off work because that means I can > help you try and sort this mess out into something low maintenance before > we both get busy again! :) > > And yeah if some sort of news making page can be constructed that does all > the inserting and news list management stuff for you on the existing site > that'd be fine too. As presumably then even someone like me could use it to > create news if needed lol! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *> as mentioned below, I'd like to add static page generation.> I think, > Jekyll would be nice for that:> - https://jekyllrb.com/ > <https://jekyllrb.com/>> - It would make it easier to add new > content/news.> - It allows for removing redundancies in pages.> - We could > slowly transition page by page (maybe just> the news at first).> - It > supports markdown (could, for example, translate > the> cv3-discoverer-english/log.md into html after a tiny change).> - It is > also used in GitHub Pages, so it'd be compatible> in case of a move > there.> - It only needs a Ruby installation with the gem installed,> then > one more line in console/script for uploading and> a slightly changed > directory to upload from.* > > > > *> I installed it here and it looks like it works for me.> I'd just need > to know beforehand, if you would approve of> using it?* > > I've never heard of these guys but if they have a nice easy to use > frontend that allows even noobs like me to create website content (eg > menus, pages, inserting text & pictures) much like the wordpress and wix > webpage builders but obviously also has that lovely well organised backend > code access for pros like you guys to tinker with if needed (or even some > one like me who knows a bit of html to play with if needed) then I'm all > for for this idea too mate! :) > > However I realise I'm not the one you were hoping you'd get a reply to > your question from haha! :P Hopefully Mike or someone can give you their > thoughts on that. :) > > If we do go ahead with something new we'd wanna create it in a different > folder on sf/gh and bring over resources from old wewbsite folders only > when needed so that we're creating a nice new clean well organised > site/folder/file structure from the ground up without the 20years of junk > that has accumulated in the old site folders. > > I'm gonna hold off on my big screenshot and videos section overhaul plans > I previously talked about until these website future plans are decided on > as there's not much point in me working on the existing screenshot section > pages and sub pages if a whole new site is going to be developed! > > > Regards > > Blake > _______________________________________________ > Freecol-developers mailing list > Freecol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freecol-developers >
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