[Seaside] [ANN] new Seaside homepage

[Michael Gorsuch]

Excellent work!  I think this'll help foster even more interest in
both the framework and Smalltalk.

Question - how did you manage the syntax highlighting on the example pages?

On 7/11/07, Martial Boniou <martial.boniou at ifrance.com> wrote:
> Nice work. It's a good ad for pier cms too. It seems that the header
> should be nicer if it was textured; the white is a bit large.
>
> Is there a vector/SVG/AI/flash logo of Seaside. I'll be glad to have a
> resizeable logo (and a extra-small version like the 'get firefox'
> buttons (20px*80px)).
>
> Finally I have two remarks.
> - I don't like to much the resized image in the box (screenshot section)
> when you have small screens (as I have now). It's nothing but a generic
> issue with this box in seaside. Is there another javascript lightbox
> solution?
> - Is the 'manage' section useful to display? I use Pier too and what I
> did for my personal website is to add a special 'hidden' page for
> administration in dispatcher pointing to the same PRKernel instance but
> displaying the 'manage' section (using a configuration new variable to
> say whether the 'manage' section are displayed or not). So when the user
> access to seaside via:
>
> seaside.st = it displays the page without 'manage'
>
> And when he writes:
>
> seaside.st/secretadminpageentry = it goes with the login section and all
> the admin things.
>
> It's just suggestion. It's a very nice work. It's far better than the
> old pages. I hope squeak.org/squeakfoundation sites will benefit this
> kind of new design one day.
>
> About the demos, I'm thinking it would be nice to see an halo demo with
> a *secure* inspector and read-only wabrowser displaying the only
> concerned categories. Just a brainstorming!
>
>
> --
> Martial
>
>
> On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 09:50 +0200, Philippe Marschall wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > After too many delays the new Seaside homepage [1] has finally gone
> > online. Since we switched hosts it might take a moment until the DNS
> > update propagates to you. The first thing you'll notice is the updated
> > look for which we no longer have to excuse. We cleaned up the content
> > and added a lot of new stuff. Among others you'll find interactive
> > examples, feed aggregation Monticello commit logs and the answers to
> > often asked questions like 'What is the best Swiss cheese?'. Under the
> > hood we made a lot of technology upgrades. We finally run on Seaside
> > (2.8) and the Pier CMS with several plug-ins, we are also hosted at
> > Seaside-Hosting [2]. The only way to eat more dog food would be
> > running on SqueakNOS.
> >
> > The page is not yet fully finished (and probably never will be) but we
> > feel we're at the point where it's significantly better than the old
> > one. So if you have suggestions for improvements or want to help get
> > in contact with us.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Lukas
> > Philippe
> >
> > [1] http://www.seaside.st
> > [2] http://www.seasidehosting.st/
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