Re: [Freecol-developers] freecol.org website down

2014-12-14 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Michael I would advocate changing platform. Yes a redesign is what you want to avoid but I think in a way its a good chance to give the website a face lift. I would advocate as well switching away from joomla to wordpress. Joomla even the latest 3.3.x version I am running for a clients website is

Re: [Freecol-developers] freecol.org website down

2014-12-14 Thread Michael T. Pope
On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:14:52 +0100 Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > I would advocate as well switching away from joomla to wordpress. Out of the frying pan and into the fire? > The biggest question is where to host it. Administrative convenience supports keeping everything on sourceforge. Cheers, Mi

Re: [Freecol-developers] freecol.org website down

2014-12-14 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Joomla is nice and all dont get me wrong but until you get used to it its a pain in the rump to work with. If need be i might be able to find a sponsor for the website whose a really good friend of mine that might be willing to sponsor the site in terms of hosting. On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 11:46 AM

Re: [Freecol-developers] freecol.org website down

2014-12-14 Thread Caleb Williams
WordPress is very easy to work with but the real trick is to find (or create) a theme that will work for FreeCol and it's needs. Most good themes start getting expensive quickly. I do link the current freecol.org website though, so something close to that would be great. > Out of the frying pan an

Re: [Freecol-developers] freecol.org website down

2014-12-14 Thread Michael T. Pope
On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 14:02:48 -0600 Caleb Williams wrote: > > Out of the frying pan and into the fire? > > That really depends on getting the theme right. Sorry for being obtuse. I am involved in computer security professionally. Both Joomla and Wordpress have very poor reputations in that fiel

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2014-12-14 Thread Caleb Williams
On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 14:02:48 -0600 Caleb Williams wrote: > > Out of the frying pan and into the fire? > > That really depends on getting the theme right. Sorry for being obtuse. I am involved in computer security professionally. Both Joomla and Wordpress have very poor reputations in that field

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2014-12-14 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
I would not be asking for money to do it, i would do it to hone my skills in web design as well as the ability to give back to the community. On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:37 AM, Caleb Williams wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 14:02:48 -0600 > Caleb Williams wrote: > > > Out of the frying pan and int