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Project website design and style guidelines / tips
Hi,
Some of us in the Subversion community have been talking about
"refreshing" our website [1]. Overall it's not bad I think, but it
starts to feel a bit dated. We'd like to update it with a more modern
L&F, make it more attractive, perhaps shuffle around some bits of
information to make them more easily discoverable, etc ...
Before we go reinvent the wheel, I was wondering: does the ASF have
some guidelines, style guides, templates, tips? I found one recent
mailthread on dev@community: "Where's the code" [2], but that was
mainly focused on having a link to the source repositories and
download links.
Browsing through some project websites I see quite some diversity. Is
this: each project does its own thing? Or is there a desire to create
some consistency and / or take the burden of designing websites away
from the projects a bit (most of us are nowhere near experienced web
designers)?
Any checklists of things to keep in mind?
Any great examples within the ASF ecosystem?
[1] http://subversion.apache.org/
[2] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f33c88b52afbf65aabb028772dcd08ebb78a237d99221566754fa82a@%3Cdev.community.apache.org%3E
Thanks,
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Johan
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Re: Project website design and style guidelines / tips
Posted by Mark Bretl <mb...@apache.org>.
Another resource for the required links is the TLP Website check,
https://whimsy.apache.org/site/check.
Best regards,
--Mark
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 2:17 AM, sebb <se...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, please preserve existing URLs (add redirects if necessary).
>
> It's really annoying when links break.
>
> On 3 December 2017 at 16:58, Kevin A. McGrail <ke...@mcgrail.com>
> wrote:
> > My $0.02 is everyone does there own design but there are a few links and
> stuff required to the main apache.org site. See https://www.apache.org/
> foundation/marks/pmcs
> >
> > Also, if you get some people to donate their work on the design or
> website. Consider adding them as commiters. It's a talent sometimes
> overlooked by pmcs.
> > Regards,
> > KAM
> >
> > On December 3, 2017 10:21:39 AM EST, Johan Corveleyn <jc...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Some of us in the Subversion community have been talking about
> >>"refreshing" our website [1]. Overall it's not bad I think, but it
> >>starts to feel a bit dated. We'd like to update it with a more modern
> >>L&F, make it more attractive, perhaps shuffle around some bits of
> >>information to make them more easily discoverable, etc ...
> >>
> >>Before we go reinvent the wheel, I was wondering: does the ASF have
> >>some guidelines, style guides, templates, tips? I found one recent
> >>mailthread on dev@community: "Where's the code" [2], but that was
> >>mainly focused on having a link to the source repositories and
> >>download links.
> >>
> >>Browsing through some project websites I see quite some diversity. Is
> >>this: each project does its own thing? Or is there a desire to create
> >>some consistency and / or take the burden of designing websites away
> >>from the projects a bit (most of us are nowhere near experienced web
> >>designers)?
> >>
> >>Any checklists of things to keep in mind?
> >>
> >>Any great examples within the ASF ecosystem?
> >>
> >>
> >>[1] http://subversion.apache.org/
> >>[2]
> >>https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f33c88b52afbf65aabb028772dcd08
> ebb78a237d99221566754fa82a@%3Cdev.community.apache.org%3E
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>--
> >>Johan
> >>
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Re: Project website design and style guidelines / tips
Posted by sebb <se...@gmail.com>.
Also, please preserve existing URLs (add redirects if necessary).
It's really annoying when links break.
On 3 December 2017 at 16:58, Kevin A. McGrail <ke...@mcgrail.com> wrote:
> My $0.02 is everyone does there own design but there are a few links and stuff required to the main apache.org site. See https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs
>
> Also, if you get some people to donate their work on the design or website. Consider adding them as commiters. It's a talent sometimes overlooked by pmcs.
> Regards,
> KAM
>
> On December 3, 2017 10:21:39 AM EST, Johan Corveleyn <jc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Some of us in the Subversion community have been talking about
>>"refreshing" our website [1]. Overall it's not bad I think, but it
>>starts to feel a bit dated. We'd like to update it with a more modern
>>L&F, make it more attractive, perhaps shuffle around some bits of
>>information to make them more easily discoverable, etc ...
>>
>>Before we go reinvent the wheel, I was wondering: does the ASF have
>>some guidelines, style guides, templates, tips? I found one recent
>>mailthread on dev@community: "Where's the code" [2], but that was
>>mainly focused on having a link to the source repositories and
>>download links.
>>
>>Browsing through some project websites I see quite some diversity. Is
>>this: each project does its own thing? Or is there a desire to create
>>some consistency and / or take the burden of designing websites away
>>from the projects a bit (most of us are nowhere near experienced web
>>designers)?
>>
>>Any checklists of things to keep in mind?
>>
>>Any great examples within the ASF ecosystem?
>>
>>
>>[1] http://subversion.apache.org/
>>[2]
>>https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f33c88b52afbf65aabb028772dcd08ebb78a237d99221566754fa82a@%3Cdev.community.apache.org%3E
>>
>>Thanks,
>>--
>>Johan
>>
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Re: Project website design and style guidelines / tips
Posted by "Kevin A. McGrail" <ke...@mcgrail.com>.
My $0.02 is everyone does there own design but there are a few links and stuff required to the main apache.org site. See https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs
Also, if you get some people to donate their work on the design or website. Consider adding them as commiters. It's a talent sometimes overlooked by pmcs.
Regards,
KAM
On December 3, 2017 10:21:39 AM EST, Johan Corveleyn <jc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Some of us in the Subversion community have been talking about
>"refreshing" our website [1]. Overall it's not bad I think, but it
>starts to feel a bit dated. We'd like to update it with a more modern
>L&F, make it more attractive, perhaps shuffle around some bits of
>information to make them more easily discoverable, etc ...
>
>Before we go reinvent the wheel, I was wondering: does the ASF have
>some guidelines, style guides, templates, tips? I found one recent
>mailthread on dev@community: "Where's the code" [2], but that was
>mainly focused on having a link to the source repositories and
>download links.
>
>Browsing through some project websites I see quite some diversity. Is
>this: each project does its own thing? Or is there a desire to create
>some consistency and / or take the burden of designing websites away
>from the projects a bit (most of us are nowhere near experienced web
>designers)?
>
>Any checklists of things to keep in mind?
>
>Any great examples within the ASF ecosystem?
>
>
>[1] http://subversion.apache.org/
>[2]
>https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f33c88b52afbf65aabb028772dcd08ebb78a237d99221566754fa82a@%3Cdev.community.apache.org%3E
>
>Thanks,
>--
>Johan
>
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Re: Project website design and style guidelines / tips
Posted by Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@apache.org>.
Hi,
On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...Browsing through some project websites I see quite some diversity. Is
> this: each project does its own thing?...
Yes, I don't think there are any foundation-wide resources for that.
Now, if you see a site from another ASF project that you like, I
suppose it's fine to ask them if you can borrow their design and
repurpose it for your own project.
AFAIK our infra team wants to deprecate the Apache CMS so the
recommend was to publish our websites today is either svnpubsub or
gitpubsub, https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/git_based_websites_available
- which means you're free to se whatever site generation tool that
works for you.
(you might now this already - mentioning it for completeness of this thread ;-)
-Bertrand
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