[Seaside] website maintenance/feedback?
Bob Arning
arning at charm.net
Wed Feb 23 15:42:14 UTC 2011
What if the alternate stylesheets were configurable by users from their
browsers, but stored on seaside.st? I could clone your stylesheet and
switch all the fonts to Georgia. Then other users could decide to use
BorisStyle or BobStyle or implement their own, either based on one of
ours or starting from scratch. Seaside.st could track which style was
most popular and make that the default for new viewers (or not). The
primary site admin would only need to provide one functioning
stylesheet, so no additional work for him.
Cheers,
Bob
On 2/23/11 10:23 AM, Boris Popov, DeepCove Labs wrote:
>
> Bob,
>
> That would largely depend on how close the 2 versions are, not much to
> do with Seaside even. We maintain about 5 sets of stylesheets for
> different brands of our application and every change/addition we make
> involves at least thinking about all of them, which is already more
> work than thinking about one ;)
>
> -Boris
>
> *From:*seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] *On Behalf Of *Bob
> Arning
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:10 AM
> *To:* seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Seaside] website maintenance/feedback?
>
> Hmm... does it necessarily take double the maintenance or can Seaside
> bring the scale factor closer to 1x than 2x?
>
> General question: how can one take a look at the code behind the site?
> Is that downloadable somethere? Perhaps this would provide the
> leverage for exploring alternate solutions.
>
> Cheers,
> Bob
>
> On 2/23/11 9:54 AM, Boris Popov, DeepCove Labs wrote:
>
> I have to say it's uncommon to have sites present multiple treatments
> and letting users choose one they prefer as it leads to double the
> maintenance and all kinds of other issues. If the structure of the
> site is to your satisfaction, you can easily adjust the look of it
> with existing extensions or custom stylesheet in your browser.
>
> -Boris
>
> *From:*seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> <mailto:seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> [mailto:seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] *On Behalf Of *Bob
> Arning
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 23, 2011 9:51 AM
> *To:* seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> <mailto:seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Seaside] website maintenance/feedback?
>
> Both.
>
> Different components, e.g., might support linear vs. hypertext. I
> often want to know whether I've read everything available (like a
> book) and that can be quite hard when the data is in some fairly
> complex tree structure. So, if there are N possible pages on the site,
> can they be viewed either as a book (perhaps chunked into chapters,
> but with a clear first and last) or as a tree of arbitrary depth and
> cross/cyclical linking.
>
> Different visuals: as your email and mine implicitly illustrate, some
> folks like serifs, some do not. Can a site make that accommodation in
> a pleasing way?
>
> Cheers,
> Bob
>
> On 2/23/11 9:38 AM, Boris Popov, DeepCove Labs wrote:
>
> Bob,
>
> Could you clarify what you mean by different views of the same
> information? Different components or simply different visual treatment?
>
> -Boris
>
> *From:*seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> <mailto:seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> [mailto:seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] *On Behalf Of *Bob
> Arning
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 23, 2011 9:35 AM
> *To:* seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> <mailto:seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Seaside] website maintenance/feedback?
>
> One question to ask is whether the site needs "a" new design or
> several. I am of a minority less enamored with design/structure and
> more interested in full understanding. Would Seaside make it possible
> to support two radically different views of the same information
> without needing to do twice the work?
>
> Cheers,
> Bob
>
> P.S. I saw this today in a totally different context, but it seems
> applicable here as well:
>
> http://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce.html
>
>
>
> On 2/23/11 9:18 AM, Robert Sirois wrote:
>
> I like where this conversation is going :p Maybe what we really need
> is to get some ideas out there, put some volunteers in charge, and
> have a little web get-together and discuss it?
>
> RS
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> From: sebastian at flowingconcept.com <mailto:sebastian at flowingconcept.com>
> Subject: Re: [Seaside] website maintenance/feedback?
> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:53:17 -0300
> To: seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> <mailto:seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>
> "...As I have previously mentioned, the website needs a better design..."
>
> All...
>
> I not only agree with that, I'm afraid "the hole is deeper".
>
> Actually our community in general needs better branding so marketing
> so copywriting so design.
>
> Of course that means a website with better design. But the issue is
> more deep than retouching the website.
>
> Avi's attitude is the kind of thing that creates an opportunity for
> Seaside.
>
> It could be a chance to start showing people that smalltalkers don't
> ignore design (and I don't mean in theory).
>
> But the reality is that not much of a difference will happen unless
> we boldly embrace design from the core (code) to the skin (UI).
>
> Avi...
>
> if you have screenshots to show that's okay but be prepared for the
> next thing: people will start to make bold opinions about it (thinking
> they know what they're talking about even if they aren't designers)
> and having feedback is okay but, as you probably know, committees
> trying to design horses end up delivering giraffes because
> democratically they decided they're "improved"
>
> If you think you can deal with that and make us look better, they I'm
> curious already
>
> sebastian <http://twitter.com/#%21/sebastianconcpt>
>
> o/
>
> On Feb 23, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Avi Shefi wrote:
>
> Julian,
> I'm willing to manage the website.
> Lately I have been working on a new design mockup for the Seaside
> website. As I have previously mentioned, the website needs a
> better design. Hope I'll get to it over the following week and
> send some screenshots of it.
>
> Regardless of the issue, I have new ideas for Seaside to which I
> will dedicate some time after I finish some of the currently open
> issues.
>
>
> Regards,
> Avi.
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Julian Fitzell
> <jfitzell at gmail.com <mailto:jfitzell at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I think I've asked before, but this is a good time to ask again. Is
> there anyone in the community who would be willing to volunteer their
> services as "webmaster"? It doesn't necessarily have to involve a lot
> of work (though I'd love someone to take on the challenge of cleaning
> up the site organization), but mostly having responsibility for making
> sure these kinds of comments don't get dropped (filing an issue if
> appropriate) and that *someone* is doing something about them. We have
> a number of people in the community with permissions to update the
> site, so some of the effort could just involve delegation to them and
> then chasing them up.
>
> Julian
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Andrew Buchan
> <andyhasit at gmail.com <mailto:andyhasit at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm starting to use seaside, and finding most of what I need,
> but have
> > noticed something on the website that needs fixed, not sure where to
> > send this to as there is no "webmaster contact" bit, so thought I'd
> > post it here:
> >
> > -------------------
> >
> > On page: "http://www.seaside.st/documentation" the menu link to
> > "applications" brings you to the page on "debugging"...
> >
> > Also, the pages talking about seaside 3.0:
> >
> > http://www.seaside.st/community/development/seaside30
> > http://www.seaside.st/seaside30
> >
> > Could both do with being dated, especially as Seaside is one of
> those
> > things that people might try, leave, and come back to in a few
> months
> > to see if anything has changed, and won't remember what version they
> > downloaded.
> >
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