Hello Hcoopers, I created a draft new website for hcoop. I'd like to know what people think and if you don't like it, what I could do to make it better/different. Once we agree on the appearance of it, I'll start plugging content into it. Thanks!
http://hcoop.net/~lauren/hcoop_redesign/index.html http://hcoop.net/~lauren/hcoop_redesign/second_tier_page.html On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Clinton Ebadi <[email protected]>wrote: > > (changed subject) > > Lauren McNees <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Clinton Ebadi <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > If you'd like to work on a better design for the hcoop.org please > > do. It's one of those things that would be really nice to have > > hcoop.org is pretty ugly as it is, but that I at least am utterly > > incapable of. > > > > If you want to do something about the design just let me know what > you > > need! A good starting place is > > /afs/hcoop.net/user/h/hc/hcoop/public_html/. > > > > Just to avoid confusion, its hcoop.net not hcoop.org, right? Or is there > a > > hcoop.org in the works that I don't know about? > > hcoop.net yes. > > > What is the hcoop website and members portal currently powered by? Its > > database-driven with css right? If I attempt to create a new look for the > > website, should it just be a simple html/css template type thing that the > > admins could drop the database programming into? > > The main page is static html: ~hcoop/public_html/Makefile generates the > sites by calling a script: > > - `hcoop_html' cats /etc/hcoop.header, the page body, and > /etc/hcoop.footer together > > The header just contains a basic <html><head>...<body><h1>$TITLE</h1> > ... > > And the footer closes the <body> and document. We are most certainly > *not* tied to doing things this way--I suspect the static site is > generated this way as a quick hack. > > I copied hcoop.{header,footer} into ~hcoop/public_html so that you can > view them. > > The domtool manual (http://hcoop.net/domtool/) is automatically > generated by domtool itself. It does, however, use the same css as the > main site so any style improvements to that would apply to the domtool > manual automatically. If needed I can adjust the code that generates the > domtool manual to produce html more amenable to any changes to the > style. > > The portal uses MLT which just embeds SML into HTML ala > PHP. http://wiki.hcoop.net/DaemonAdmin/Portal has some information on > how it works--I've only done minimal work on the portal so far and I'll > have to get back to you on the specifics of restyling it. I CCed bpt--at > one point he did hack together a static mockup of a new interface for > the portal so he may be able to assist. > > That's the gist of it, I'll start working on a wiki page with more > details soon. > > -- > "Karen loved animals. Unfortunately the cheetahs betrayed her trust," > Libot said. > > _______________________________________________ > HCoop-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.hcoop.net/listinfo/hcoop-discuss > >
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