Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Moving the LedgerSMB.org website

2012-06-26 Thread Chris Travers
Hi all; I figured I should at some point add my voice to this. First, I think it is important that we have, as a community, a strong level of control over the site, and the fact is that being able to get Drupal modules, etc,. installed has been difficult here for some time.Again, Command Prom

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Moving the LedgerSMB.org website

2012-06-26 Thread Chris Bennett
Sounds good to me. I also agree that some important work needs to be done on the site. Everyone is already talking about factual errors/out of date stuff. But I think the actual appearance and usability sucks. Everything is very bland looking. Obviously, this is accounting software, not a band's

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Moving the LedgerSMB.org website

2012-06-26 Thread Andres Basile
Hello Erik, community, Two things that I would love on the new web: * A wiki, just wondered that I didn't find one there. (I still believe it is a wonderful tool on community feedback) * Open id login, it is a pain to have a different user for each site, personally, I support to use one user for e

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Moving the LedgerSMB.org website

2012-06-26 Thread Nigel Titley
On 26/06/2012 17:12, John Hasler wrote: > Jame writes: >> Besides that I'm still wondering why the site isn't hosted at the >> SourceForge project; who would have access to do updates such a new >> site and how would that be done? > Please consider . We've had the Chrony pro

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Moving the LedgerSMB.org website

2012-06-26 Thread John Hasler
Jame writes: > Besides that I'm still wondering why the site isn't hosted at the > SourceForge project; who would have access to do updates such a new > site and how would that be done? Please consider . We've had the Chrony project there for several years and been quite sa

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Moving the LedgerSMB.org website

2012-06-26 Thread Robert James Clay
On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 01:51 -0400, Erik Huelsmann wrote: > It is however the reason why I've contacted John this weekend to take > him up on the offer. We spent quite a bit of time to find a good theme > and John succeeded at copying over most of the FAQ items. The result > is this site http://led

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Moving the LedgerSMB.org website

2012-06-26 Thread Pete Houston
I agree with and support all of Nigel's comments and I too would be happy to help with the content cleaning. When your current hosting provider becomes unresponsive that's usually a good indicator that it's time to move elsewhere (even for volunteer hosting). Well done for taking the initiative on

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Moving the LedgerSMB.org website

2012-06-26 Thread Nigel Titley
The new site looks good although, as you say, it is still a bit rough around the edges. I would say that we go with it. Could I suggest that the first thing that needs doing is a good spring clean: there are numerous spelling mistakes and chunks of very old content that needs excising or at le