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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: koffice web site (was: Encoding(s) in KOffice?)
From:       Jeremy Blosser <jblosser () firinn ! org>
Date:       1999-09-01 11:55:40
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Reginald Stadlbauer [reggie@troll.no] wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Matthias Elter wrote:
> >I wonder what happended to the bazillion people interested in maintaining the
> >koffice website?! Instead of posting daily design concepts to koffice@kde.org
> >somebody might have wanted to actually do something? ;-)
> 
> ;-)) Unfortunately I had the impression that these were mainly people who talked
> a lot about what great things they could do but did nothing. So, if something
> here is interested in polishing up the existing pages, do it! :-)

;P  Thanks for the vote of confidence.

Actually discussion and development have continued on the koffice-web
mailing list.  Admittedly it stalled for a while... mostly due to people
being busy and too many design proposals (heh).  But nice-looking web pages
take more than a day or two. ;P

Anyway, attached is what I just sent that list... as it says, I'm going to
commit the first version of the rewrite in a day or two.

PS: Can SOMEONE who knows give an answer on if we can use SSI (shtml files)
on koffice.kde.org?  If no one knows for sure, can you give me an address
of who to contact to find out?  Again, this is *not* a script or a separate
process or anything, it's a standard part of Apache/Netscape/etc. web
servers.  And it'd save a whole lot of time.

-- 
Jeremy Blosser   |   jblosser@firinn.org   |   http://jblosser.firinn.org/
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"If Microsoft can change and compete on quality, I've won." -- L. Torvalds

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Michele Baldessari [baldessari.p@dnet.it] wrote:
> the past discussion on one person taking care of one application, by adding new
> screenshots, news, feature descriptions, etc., still holds true, or will things
> go another way?

This would be ideal, but it requires people to actually do things.  And
existing maintainers (not all of whom are on this list) should be
respected.

Anyway, I've finally got the old site converted over to the new format.  See
http://koffice.cyrmy.org/

Since the koffice developers are getting antsy, I'm going to wait a day or
two for comments and then commit this to the CVS so there is at least
/something/ better than the old one there.  Changes can go from there.

Accomplished:
- New design.
- HTML 4.0 compliance.
- All the copy has been corrected/rewritten to be better English.
- Some pages have been merged/rearranged/etc.

Things that need done:
- I didn't touch kword, kpresenter, kimage, katabase, or the FAQ, since
  those seem to have active maintainers.  I'll try to reach those people
  about converting their pages.
- I still need to find out if we can use SSI.  I haven't been able to get
  an answer on this yet.
- It needs a better graphic for the screenshot header thing, plus
  individual ones for each of the components.
- The component sub-pages should prolly have a new level under the given
  component in the navbar to show links for that component.  Since none of
  them have anything right now, this isn't /that/ big of a deal.
- Thumbnails for the screenshot pages... right now it's just text links
  (but no longer the bloated "get all the screenshots at once" way).
- The design, especially on the sub pages, could still use some work.  I
  particularly don't like how the news page looks.
- KoHTML is mentioned on the existing KOffice home page, but I have 0 info
  about it... I need to see what I can find.
- There were links on Joel's original site map (wishlist, developer's
  gallery, etc.) that don't have content yet, so I commented those links
  out for now.
- More stuff, like screenshot slide show tours of applications, etc.

-- 
Jeremy Blosser   |   jblosser@firinn.org   |   http://jblosser.firinn.org/
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"If Microsoft can change and compete on quality, I've won." -- L. Torvalds

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