About www.squeak.org web page

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Jun 11 07:13:59 UTC 2003


On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 02:38 AM, Russell Allen wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As the person who was responsible for (long ago) creating the 
> squeak.org
> look, I fully agree that it needs an update.  I always intended to 
> update
> it, but lately have been rather busy trying to find a job :(

Hope you will find something soon. Not too easy these times.


> If any
> professional web designers are out there and want to create something 
> new,
> please do!
>
> That said, the "crappy clock" on the front page was meant to be an 
> example
> of the out-of-the-box abilities of Squeak to manipulate images, 
> truetype
> fonts etc.  If it looks crappy, then maybe we need to update the look 
> of
> Squeak as well as the website ;)

I meant that too :)
Imagine a morph clock whose "aiguilles" cannot even be moved manually.


> On a more serious note, when designing any new squeak.org, some thought
> needs to be given to the website's purpose.

Exact

> Most up to date content is found on the swiki - squeak.org has become
> somewhat of a bottleneck, with changes being reliant on the spare time 
> of
> the responsible person.  Redoing the look of the site will not fix that
> problem and the person doing the redesign needs to carefully think 
> about
> what content should be included.

Exactly the information there should be minimalist and intemporal.
>
> My personal suggestions are to only include:
>     + introduction
>     + tour of squeak abilities
>     + download page and licence
>     + links to swiki (where real content is) and mailing list (where 
> real
> discussion occurs)
>
> (in other words, not to go much beyond what is there, just make sure 
> that
> the information is better organised and the swiki has higher priority, 
> and
> maybe remove much of the stuff under the "documentation" heading).
>
> Anyway, go for it!
>
> Russell
>
> On 10/6/03 5:09 PM, "squeak-dev-request at lists.squeakfoundation.org"
> <squeak-dev-request at lists.squeakfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 18:55:13 -0700
>> From: Ted Kaehler <Ted at SqueakLand.org>
>> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>> Subject: Re: About www.squeak.org web page
>>
>> Folks,
>> As keeper of the content on Squeak.org, I am agreeable to any
>> updating of the site that the group approves.
>> I'd be happy to put up the various candidates designs from
>> other people in an obscure corner of Squeak.org.  Everyone can look
>> at them, and make suggestions.
>>
>> --Ted.
>
>



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