Hi fellow wicketeers! We all know that Wicket has to be the most awesome and productive Java UI framework around but I am worried when I point new clients to the Wicket website because it's look and feel is possibly a little dated or '2007ish style'. I feel like the look and feel of the Wicket website doesn't do justice to the full awesomeness that we all know wicket has. We all know that, using the wicket Java UI framework it's possible to create websites with *any* look and feel but unfortunately many clients don't have this same technical awareness and see the website for Wicket, a framework for building web applications in Java, and assume that the Wicket website itself is an example of the type of webapp/website you'll end up with if you build it with Wicket - which we all know is not the case: we're building awesome AJAX enabled, modern, sexy Bootstrap templated webapps in Wicket. A few years ago someone had produced a prototype of a refurbished Wicket website that looked really quite nice but it never was deployed to the live server for some reason. These days I think most developers know that it's fairly easy to make a great, modern looking website using one of the many Bootstrap customizations (eg., Bootswatch). First question: Does anyone else think a wicket website makeover is overdue (or are most people happy with the current look and feel)? If the answer is yes then please continue reading: Any chance some people are interested in offering time to perform a Wicket website makeover? Some questions for the site maintainers -
Are the current web pages: 1. Generated from any tool via XLST or anything? 2. Served from a content management system? 3. Just static pages edited directly in HTML? 4. Served as a Wicket app? (would be awesome!) I guess the answer to these determines the quickest way possible to a refurbished website if Wicketeers agree that is appropriate. Could we hook together a simple system that actually uses a very simple Wicket app itself to host the pages? Eg., provide page content in some wiki style text format and have a simple Wicket page class that interprets this and outputs formatted content? Aside: We have actually built a content management system for editing/hosting websites using Wicket but it's proprietary and I don't think Apache would approve of an Apache site being served by a proprietary content management system so that's probably not an option. We don't mind hosting it if they didn't mind but I'm thinking that's not going to be approved. Regards, Chris
