[HCoop-Discuss] Site Redesign

Thu Mar 10 13:36:42 EST 2011

Hello Hcoopers,

I created a draft new website for hcoop. I'd like to know what people think
and if you don't like it, what I could do to make it better/different. Once
we agree on the appearance of it, I'll start plugging content into it.
Thanks!

http://hcoop.net/~lauren/hcoop_redesign/index.html
http://hcoop.net/~lauren/hcoop_redesign/second_tier_page.html

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Clinton Ebadi <clinton at unknownlamer.org>wrote:

>
> (changed subject)
>
> Lauren McNees <lauren at hcoop.net> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Clinton Ebadi <clinton at unknownlamer.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >     If you'd like to work on a better design for the hcoop.org please
> >     do. It's one of those things that would be really nice to have
> >     hcoop.org is pretty ugly as it is, but that I at least am utterly
> >     incapable of.
> >
> >     If you want to do something about the design just let me know what
> you
> >     need! A good starting place is
> >     /afs/hcoop.net/user/h/hc/hcoop/public_html/.
> >
> > Just to avoid confusion, its hcoop.net not hcoop.org, right? Or is there
> a
> > hcoop.org in the works that I don't know about?
>
> hcoop.net yes.
>
> > What is the hcoop website and members portal currently powered by? Its
> > database-driven with css right? If I attempt to create a new look for the
> > website, should it just be a simple html/css template type thing that the
> > admins could drop the database programming into?
>
> The main page is static html:  ~hcoop/public_html/Makefile generates the
> sites by calling a script:
>
>  - `hcoop_html' cats /etc/hcoop.header, the page body, and
>   /etc/hcoop.footer together
>
> The header just contains a basic <html><head>...<body><h1>$TITLE</h1>
> ...
>
> And the footer closes the <body> and document. We are most certainly
> *not* tied to doing things this way--I suspect the static site is
> generated this way as a quick hack.
>
> I copied hcoop.{header,footer} into ~hcoop/public_html so that you can
> view them.
>
> The domtool manual (http://hcoop.net/domtool/) is automatically
> generated by domtool itself. It does, however, use the same css as the
> main site so any style improvements to that would apply to the domtool
> manual automatically. If needed I can adjust the code that generates the
> domtool manual to produce html more amenable to any changes to the
> style.
>
> The portal uses MLT which just embeds SML into HTML ala
> PHP. http://wiki.hcoop.net/DaemonAdmin/Portal has some information on
> how it works--I've only done minimal work on the portal so far and I'll
> have to get back to you on the specifics of restyling it. I CCed bpt--at
> one point he did hack together a static mockup of a new interface for
> the portal so he may be able to assist.
>
> That's the gist of it, I'll start working on a wiki page with more
> details soon.
>
> --
> "Karen loved animals. Unfortunately the cheetahs betrayed her trust,"
> Libot said.
>
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