Re: [libreoffice-website] Redesigning the website

Excellent news. I look forward to this, but we should try to have a uniform
presentation of the content this time, so preferably translations of the
English text in Pootle...
6. nov. 2013 16:57 skrev "Charles-H. Schulz" <
charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org> følgende:

> Hello,
>
> The time has come for us to work on a new and improved web site for
> LibreOffice.
> While it served us well for several years already, it has also shown some
> downsides and people tend to complain more.
>
> Because of this the board has decided to start a website redesign project
> and as such the first thing that needs to be clarified is to define the
> scope of this website redesign.
>
> Technically speaking we will continue using our SilverStripe platform; we
> won't pick a new CMS (they are more or less the same for what needs to be
> done).
> We will not be targetting any of the current development and
> communications platforms: gerrit, git repos, the wiki, the mailing lists
> etc. fall out of the scope of our discussion.
> For practical reasons, so do the templates and the extensions sites.
>
> What needs to be redesigned then falls under three categories:
>
> * the "design" itself (understand: the theme, the general look of the
> website)
> * the content. We may  reuse some of it as there are certainly some good
> bits available, but we will also reorganize the way we think about the
> general presentation of the website. In this regard the discussion about
> how to engage users  to the LibreOffice community and the resulting survey
> that has just been launched will help on this matter. But we obviously need
> to think about the landing page.
> * while the technical bits themselves are not covered for this specific
> aspect, we would need to think about the whole download experience and the
> download page itself.
>
> Requirements: that's the nice part :-)
> - we will have a test environment with a SilverStripe instance to build
> out the website.
> - designers are welcome: this will be a key part of the project. The
>   board has published a job posting on this a few days ago.
>
> General comments:
> This redesign is very much an end-user focused initiative and as such a
> marketing need. I must stress again that this isn't a project where we
> decided to overhaul the online development and collaborative work tools.
> This is rather the opportunity to develop a nice looking, clear front
> facing website for LibreOffice. Another element that should not be
> forgotten is to make sure the Native-Lang communities are not forgotten and
> are included in this redesign.
>
> I'm happy to work not just Christian Lohmaier here but with everyone who'd
> like to help.
>
> Thanks!
>
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