[ocaml-infra] Feedback on the ocaml.org redesign and logo

[Ashish Agarwal]

Amir,

If you feel the design work has stabilized enough to deploy it, we should
certainly port the current site. Let's chat offline about the various steps
required to do this.

> My preference is to only deal with the site design and structure for the
moment and leave new features (e.g packages/docs) until after the design is
up.

Agreed. Let's do one thing at a time.

-Ashish



On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Amir Chaudhry <amc79 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Ashish, Christophe,
>
> I'd like to start discussing how we migrate the existing ocaml.org to the
> new design and structure.  We do still have a lot of pieces to complete and
> Philippe has been collating a list of issues we need to deal with on the
> tracker [1].  It would be great if we can get your input on these and work
> out a plan to move the design over.  I'd really like to  get this done over
> the next couple of weeks.
>
> My preference is to only deal with the site design and structure for the
> moment and leave new features (e.g packages/docs) until after the design is
> up.
>
> Specific things to consider are that the new site uses markdown, based on
> the existing source html.  I'm expecting that we generate the markdown as
> we did for our fork and archive the current source files.  There is also
> the URL structure as I've moved many things into subfolders based on the
> navigation menu.  The URLs are based on this folder structure, which I hope
> makes it easier for people to mentally map the repo contents to the live
> site.  Philipe's also added an 'edit this page' link in the footer, which
> makes it easier for people to contribute quick fixes (it was something many
> people asked for and it works well but still needs some tweaks ).
>
> Thoughts and comments are appreciated!
>
> [1] https://github.com/ocamllabs/sandbox-ocaml.org/issues
>
> Best wishes,
> Amir
>
> On 24 Sep 2013, at 15:17, Amir Chaudhry <amc79 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I've just put up a blog post asking for feedback on the ocaml.orgredesign [1].  I'm specifically interested in getting feedback on (1) the
> second iteration of the OCaml Logo and (2) the new design for ocaml.org.
>  See the blog post for more information.  We're tracking feedback via
> issues [2] and there are some known issues already listed there.
> >
> > [1] http://amirchaudhry.com/ocamlorg-request-for-feedback/
> > [2] https://github.com/ocamllabs/sandbox-ocaml.org/issues?state=open
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Amir
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