[Mailman-Developers] GNU Mailman Site Redesign

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Jul 8, 2008, at 12:35 PM, Terri Oda wrote:
>
> I was cleaning up a mess some spammers made of a friend's server,  
> and my time's just opened up again now.  So your timing is  
> impeccable! ;)

:)

>> A couple of quick thoughts.  I don't mind the beige, but what if  
>> the color scheme were a little closer to the logo?  That might be  
>> unreadable though.  If so, the gray looks nice.
>
> I'll experiment with some reds/pinks later this week and see if  
> anything works.  One complaint about the gray is that the whole page  
> is very cool then and it could use some warmth, but even those who  
> commented on that didn't think that the beige was necessarily the  
> right *source* of warmth as a solution.  One of the web designers  
> who took a peek did suggest using the gray but with the pink/reds of  
> the logo as link colours there, so I'll try that.

Yes, a warmer site would definitely be nice.

> Do we have a higher res version of the logo anywhere?  One of the  
> graphic designers who looked over the site pointed out that it's  
> looking a little jpeg-artifact abused, beyond the intentional  
> fuzzing.  I can probably bribe a graphic designer with cookies to  
> try to get it cleaned up or remade, but it'd be exceptionally lovely  
> if we had one hanging around already.

What's on the web page is all that I know of.  Those were the logos  
donated to the FSF.  I'm graphic designers love cookies though!

> Also, the menu's going to need to have an extra donate link now. :)

Indeed!

>> It took me a little bit of work to get Sphinx running on my Mac,  
>> but it's not too bad.  What do you think?
>
> I'm not picky -- I could probably write the menu-generating script  
> in straight python if need be.  In fact, it's simple enough that  
> that might not be a bad idea, now that I think about it.

I think it would be nice if we could use reST to generate the pages.   
It's a fairly easy markup language.  But feel free to experiment and  
see what you come up with!

- -Barry

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