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by Chris Morgan-10 :: Rate this Message:

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Hey guys,

I decided to post this as a new topic rather than taking the InkscapeForum.org one further off-topic.

I've pretty much finished my theme for the website, and it's available for viewing at http://inkscape.chrismorgan.info/.  I'll be setting up content as I get to it (i.e. soon).

Other theme submissions are welcome, email them to me and I can set them up there.

Josh Andler said he would talk to Ian about getting me Drupal access on inkscape.org - I don't know who Ian is or anything about that, but it could help with testing :-).  I'm happy to work with it on my server though, it can be transferred without much trouble.  Unless I hear about a inkscape.org-hosted Drupal site very soon I'll just continue working on my copy.

My work is mainly based on this submission by duckgoesoink.  Is she/are you subscribed to this list, or does anyone know how to get in contact with her?  I'd like to put a credit link in the footer.


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Re: Inkscape Website

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El Viernes, 14 de Agosto de 2009 06:40:43 Chris Morgan escribió:
> Hey guys,
> I decided to post this as a new topic rather than taking the
> InkscapeForum.org one further off-topic.
>
> I've pretty much finished my theme for the website, and it's available for
> viewing at http://inkscape.chrismorgan.info/.  I'll be setting up content
> as I get to it (i.e. soon).

Guau!
Great Work!

I like it!

Salu2 de jEsuSdA 8)





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Re: Inkscape Website

by Jarek Foksa :: Rate this Message:

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My theme can be previewed here:
http://drupalready.com/playground/inkscape/news (login/pass:
dupa/dupa)
I would say it's like 30% done, a lot of stylings are missing.

TODO:
- better sidebar icons
- print stylesheet
- mobile support (using http://drupal.org/project/mobile_tools)
- favicon
- replace all px units with ems for fonts
- stylings for typography, forms, tables, warning messages
- iefix.css (do we have to support IE6 and IE7?)
- some jQuery enhancements (animated main menu, smooth transitions on
hover states)
- add SVG Web library (http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/)


On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Chris Morgan<chris.morganiser@...> wrote:

> Hey guys,
> I decided to post this as a new topic rather than taking the
> InkscapeForum.org one further off-topic.
> I've pretty much finished my theme for the website, and it's available for
> viewing at http://inkscape.chrismorgan.info/.  I'll be setting up content as
> I get to it (i.e. soon).
> Other theme submissions are welcome, email them to me and I can set them up
> there.
> Josh Andler said he would talk to Ian about getting me Drupal access on
> inkscape.org - I don't know who Ian is or anything about that, but it could
> help with testing :-).  I'm happy to work with it on my server though, it
> can be transferred without much trouble.  Unless I hear about a
> inkscape.org-hosted Drupal site very soon I'll just continue working on my
> copy.
>
> My work is mainly based on this submission by duckgoesoink.  Is she/are you
> subscribed to this list, or does anyone know how to get in contact with her?
>  I'd like to put a credit link in the footer.
>
> -- Chris Morgan <chris.morganiser@...>
>

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Re: Inkscape Website

by Chris Morgan-10 :: Rate this Message:

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2009/8/14 Jarosław Foksa <jfoksa@...>
My theme can be previewed here:
http://drupalready.com/playground/inkscape/news (login/pass:
dupa/dupa)
Why exactly does drupalready.com need authentication?

I would say it's like 30% done, a lot of stylings are missing.
Hmm... in my opinion it looks too gimmicky.  I like clean designs without images all over the place where they're not needed in my opinion (e.g. menus with different images for each item).

TODO:
- better sidebar icons
- print stylesheet
- mobile support (using http://drupal.org/project/mobile_tools)
- favicon
- replace all px units with ems for fonts
- stylings for typography, forms, tables, warning messages
- iefix.css (do we have to support IE6 and IE7?)
Yes, sadly.
 
- some jQuery enhancements (animated main menu, smooth transitions on
hover states)
I personally would do it without any of this as it's just extra clutter to no real benefit. 

- add SVG Web library (http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/)
What would you use it for?  In my theme I kept it simple and didn't include any SVG content partially for support, but mainly because I couldn't really justify it. Just because Inkscape is an SVG editor doesn't mean you've got to use SVG for everything on the website... that's a thought, we could have an entirely SVG interface... :P

Thanks for providing competition though :-)


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Re: Inkscape Website

by Jarek Foksa :: Rate this Message:

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On 08/14/2009 09:56:45 AM, Chris Morgan wrote:
> 2009/8/14 Jarosław Foksa <jfoksa@...>
>
> > My theme can be previewed here:
> > http://drupalready.com/playground/inkscape/news (login/pass:
> > dupa/dupa)
>
> Why exactly does drupalready.com need authentication?

Because I don't want robots to index it and I'm too lazy to configure
robots.txt file. Sorry for inconvenience.


On 08/14/2009 09:56:45 AM, Chris Morgan wrote:
> Hmm... in my opinion it looks too gimmicky.  I like clean designs without
> images all over the place where they're not needed in my opinion (e.g. menus
> with different images for each item).

True, the menu looks very bad currently, I will work on it.

> > - iefix.css (do we have to support IE6 and IE7?)
>
> Yes, sadly.
>

Would it be acceptable to fix only most outstanding bugs? Something
like broken layout or unaccessible content. This is the best way to
make people upgrade their browsers. Note that even youtube.com and
digg.com are planning to drop support for IE6.

> > - some jQuery enhancements (animated main menu, smooth transitions on
> > hover states)
>
> I personally would do it without any of this as it's just extra clutter to
> no real benefit.

I will use it very sparingly, just simple transitions which will
degrade nicely if JavaScript is disabled.

> - add SVG Web library (http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/)
>
> What would you use it for?  In my theme I kept it simple and didn't include
> any SVG content partially for support, but mainly because I couldn't really
> justify it. Just because Inkscape is an SVG editor doesn't mean you've got
> to use SVG for everything on the website... that's a thought, we could have
> an entirely SVG interface... :P

This library will  allow us to use SVG images all over the place - in
articles, wiki, forum posts, etc. Why? Because now we can :)
The theme itself uses PNGs. SVG via background-image property is still
too buggy in Opera and Webkit-based browsers, Firefox doesn't support
it at all.

I would propose 25 August as a final deadline, after that we would
choose a theme and use it as a basis for other website parts (wiki,
forum, planet, m.inkscape.org).

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Re: Inkscape Website

by Giovanni Lanzani :: Rate this Message:

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2009/8/14 Chris Morgan <chris.morganiser@...>:

> 2009/8/14 Jarosław Foksa <jfoksa@...>
>>
>> My theme can be previewed here:
>> http://drupalready.com/playground/inkscape/news (login/pass:
>> dupa/dupa)
>
> Why exactly does drupalready.com need authentication?
>>
>> I would say it's like 30% done, a lot of stylings are missing.
>
> Hmm... in my opinion it looks too gimmicky.  I like clean designs without
> images all over the place where they're not needed in my opinion (e.g. menus
> with different images for each item).

I also dislike images on the side bar. Moreover

- the homepage > news box is ugly where it is
- the dots which divide, among other things, the left column from the
main don't really divide anything. I would put rounded boxes to have
main and left column divided.
- the top of the page (with the icon) has to be restyled. But probably
you already know that.

Cheers,

Giovanni

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Re: Inkscape Website

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2009/8/14 Jarosław Foksa <jfoksa@...>
On 08/14/2009 09:56:45 AM, Chris Morgan wrote:
> 2009/8/14 Jarosław Foksa <jfoksa@...>
>
> > My theme can be previewed here:
> > http://drupalready.com/playground/inkscape/news (login/pass:
> > dupa/dupa)
>
> Why exactly does drupalready.com need authentication?

Because I don't want robots to index it and I'm too lazy to configure
robots.txt file. Sorry for inconvenience.
I think that this would do it:
User-Agent: *
Disallow: / 


On 08/14/2009 09:56:45 AM, Chris Morgan wrote:
> Hmm... in my opinion it looks too gimmicky.  I like clean designs without
> images all over the place where they're not needed in my opinion (e.g. menus
> with different images for each item).

True, the menu looks very bad currently, I will work on it.
I reckon that just scrapping the two-colour headings and menu images would fix it up a lot, but that's just my opinion.  Others' should factor into it too.

> > - iefix.css (do we have to support IE6 and IE7?)
>
> Yes, sadly.
>

Would it be acceptable to fix only most outstanding bugs? Something
like broken layout or unaccessible content. This is the best way to
make people upgrade their browsers. Note that even youtube.com and
digg.com are planning to drop support for IE6.
I reckon that in a few months' time, when Windows 7 is out, it will be reasonable to drop support for IE 6 (the only major thing being the PNG alpha filter fix).  digg.com could probably drop support without causing any trouble because of their audience; youtube.com is the bigger player, and I reckon it's the one which will decide things more.  Normally IE 6 support (or fairly nice degradation) isn't too hard.

> > - some jQuery enhancements (animated main menu, smooth transitions on
> > hover states)
>
> I personally would do it without any of this as it's just extra clutter to
> no real benefit.

I will use it very sparingly, just simple transitions which will
degrade nicely if JavaScript is disabled.
Good.  I don't like gratuitous JavaScript, but there are definitely places where it's useful.

> - add SVG Web library (http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/)
>
> What would you use it for?  In my theme I kept it simple and didn't include
> any SVG content partially for support, but mainly because I couldn't really
> justify it. Just because Inkscape is an SVG editor doesn't mean you've got
> to use SVG for everything on the website... that's a thought, we could have
> an entirely SVG interface... :P

This library will  allow us to use SVG images all over the place - in
articles, wiki, forum posts, etc. Why? Because now we can :)
The theme itself uses PNGs. SVG via background-image property is still
too buggy in Opera and Webkit-based browsers, Firefox doesn't support
it at all.
Degradation - that's the key.  svgweb uses Flash for it, which is going to have fairly high success rates, but it's still quite common to miss it.  Unless you can come up with a good use for it, I vote to not use it.

I would propose 25 August as a final deadline, after that we would
choose a theme and use it as a basis for other website parts (wiki,
forum, planet, m.inkscape.org).
I would propose that we don't place a deadline at all, much less a final deadline.  Deadlines are incompatible with open source projects.  Also it's necessary to set up at least basic content to see how a theme will work - for example primary links, navigation menu, search.  It may be a good idea to request themes by a given date, but it won't work enforcing it.

Content transferring can possibly also start before a final decision theme-wise, at inkscape.org.  Tomorrow I'm expecting to be able to start work on a Drupal installation on inkscape.org.


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Re: Inkscape Website

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In my humble opinion, all site designs I've seen so far, including our
current one, lack one critical thing: art.

Inkscape is an art tool, but these are just standard web sites that
would fit any kind of entity.

I propose that our web site's front page should incorporate a large
enough image, created in Inkscape, at least as well done as our About
screens and ideally better. Like a banner, perhaps integrated with the
"Inkscape" heading.

We could even rotate them once per month or so, if we find enough good
candidates (and there are plenty of good Inkscape art for example on
Deviantart, we can just contact directly authors of nice pieces
offering them this free publicity :).
Of course this requires that someone takes the responsibility to
choose a piece of art (I don't think we should do monthly
competitions, it's too much overhead), nicely crop it to our format
and otherwise integrate it with the web site, perhaps even changing
the color scheme of the site to match the new front page art piece.
Such a person must have good design sense and be ready to spend some
time regularly on updating our web site.

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Re: Inkscape Website

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On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 11:04 -0300, bulia byak wrote:
> In my humble opinion, all site designs I've seen so far, including our
> current one, lack one critical thing: art.

Agreed. I have already mentioned to Chris about how we used to have the
screenshots randomly show on the homepage. I do think that having this
back again would be great in addition to your suggestion below.


> I propose that our web site's front page should incorporate a large
> enough image, created in Inkscape, at least as well done as our About
> screens and ideally better. Like a banner, perhaps integrated with the
> "Inkscape" heading.
>
> We could even rotate them once per month or so, if we find enough good
> candidates (and there are plenty of good Inkscape art for example on
> Deviantart, we can just contact directly authors of nice pieces
> offering them this free publicity :).
> Of course this requires that someone takes the responsibility to
> choose a piece of art (I don't think we should do monthly
> competitions, it's too much overhead), nicely crop it to our format
> and otherwise integrate it with the web site, perhaps even changing
> the color scheme of the site to match the new front page art piece.
> Such a person must have good design sense and be ready to spend some
> time regularly on updating our web site.

I think that the banner/header idea rocks. I would go ahead and initiate
contact with a some DA users and line up a dozen or so images
immediately so we can figure out the best format/look and be good for a
year basically.

Also, since we are in Feature Freeze and will not be seeing any more UI
changes, I will be uploading the screenshots for 0.47 that I lined up
over the weekend.

Cheers,
Josh


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Re: Inkscape Website

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I also like the idea, but please no color switching. There is indeed a
color switcher module for Drupal, but it may confuse visitors a lot, I
don't know any major website that would change color scheme on regular
basis. Besides, it would require us to update also Wiki theme (a lot
of work) in order to keep it consistent with the homepage (we are not
moving Wiki to Drupal, right?).

My idea: lets put the image inside some kind of a box or frame, so
that even if it has completely different color scheme it would stay
consistent with the theme. Here is a sample (just started wokring on
it): http://drupalready.com/uploads/2009-08-15-225307_1280x800_scrot.png
What do you think?

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:04 PM, bulia byak<buliabyak@...> wrote:

> In my humble opinion, all site designs I've seen so far, including our
> current one, lack one critical thing: art.
>
> Inkscape is an art tool, but these are just standard web sites that
> would fit any kind of entity.
>
> I propose that our web site's front page should incorporate a large
> enough image, created in Inkscape, at least as well done as our About
> screens and ideally better. Like a banner, perhaps integrated with the
> "Inkscape" heading.
>
> We could even rotate them once per month or so, if we find enough good
> candidates (and there are plenty of good Inkscape art for example on
> Deviantart, we can just contact directly authors of nice pieces
> offering them this free publicity :).
> Of course this requires that someone takes the responsibility to
> choose a piece of art (I don't think we should do monthly
> competitions, it's too much overhead), nicely crop it to our format
> and otherwise integrate it with the web site, perhaps even changing
> the color scheme of the site to match the new front page art piece.
> http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: Inkscape Website

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On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Joshua A. Andler <scislac@...> wrote:
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 11:04 -0300, bulia byak wrote:
> In my humble opinion, all site designs I've seen so far, including our
> current one, lack one critical thing: art.

Agreed. I have already mentioned to Chris about how we used to have the
screenshots randomly show on the homepage. I do think that having this
back again would be great in addition to your suggestion below.
Yup, that's going in. 

> I propose that our web site's front page should incorporate a large
> enough image, created in Inkscape, at least as well done as our About
> screens and ideally better. Like a banner, perhaps integrated with the
> "Inkscape" heading.
>
> We could even rotate them once per month or so, if we find enough good
> candidates (and there are plenty of good Inkscape art for example on
> Deviantart, we can just contact directly authors of nice pieces
> offering them this free publicity :).
> Of course this requires that someone takes the responsibility to
> choose a piece of art (I don't think we should do monthly
> competitions, it's too much overhead), nicely crop it to our format
> and otherwise integrate it with the web site, perhaps even changing
> the color scheme of the site to match the new front page art piece.
> Such a person must have good design sense and be ready to spend some
> time regularly on updating our web site.

I think that the banner/header idea rocks. I would go ahead and initiate
contact with a some DA users and line up a dozen or so images
immediately so we can figure out the best format/look and be good for a
year basically.
However, I don't think that this is a good plan as originally proposed anyway; a website should be usable and not obstruct the user from finding the important content: usually this will be what is it (about), and how do I get it (downloads).  Screenshots or demonstrations are great - but they mustn't be allowed to take over.  My theme already fills up the header area enough that you could't fit a decent-sized one in the header anyway.

I don't see anything wrong with having a random picture in a block, 200px wide, and for the front page, even possibly larger, but I think it has got to be done carefully with usability in mind.  To my mind at least, it can't be allowed to go above the big links on the front page.  And it's got to fit in.

Also, since we are in Feature Freeze and will not be seeing any more UI
changes, I will be uploading the screenshots for 0.47 that I lined up
over the weekend.
Good :-)


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Re: Inkscape Website

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2009/8/16 Jarosław Foksa <jfoksa@...>
I also like the idea, but please no color switching. There is indeed a
color switcher module for Drupal, but it may confuse visitors a lot, I
don't know any major website that would change color scheme on regular
basis.
The color module requires an implementation in the theme as well.  I never intend to implement such a feature.  I think that it's just there for initial setting up... not for cycling.

Most sites that do any regular changing seem to change the whole look... or the whole framework... SourceForge for example.  Their current site is a couple of months old now, a new one is overdue!  (So that they can break more sites which used old URLs which got broken by the new, better URL layout.)
 
Besides, it would require us to update also Wiki theme (a lot
of work) in order to keep it consistent with the homepage (we are not
moving Wiki to Drupal, right?).
Aren't we?  I was expecting that we would be.  It simplifies matters, and fits in with the plan of better organisation of the website, and makes information much easier to find (the main site doesn't really amount to anything at all - wiki.inkscape.org has all the content... search usability also comes to mind).

Discussion of exactly what is getting moved over and what is being implemented will be happening soon, after the main bit of the content is in.

My idea: lets put the image inside some kind of a box or frame, so
that even if it has completely different color scheme it would stay
consistent with the theme. Here is a sample (just started wokring on
it): http://drupalready.com/uploads/2009-08-15-225307_1280x800_scrot.png
What do you think?
With your theme it may work up there (the image you've got works very nicely while it's empty, but in my opinion almost any image inside it will distract), but with mine it wouldn't, because I haven't used so much space in that area of the header.  My plan is just to do an ordinary block, or something in the content area on the front page.


On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:04 PM, bulia byak<buliabyak@...> wrote:
> In my humble opinion, all site designs I've seen so far, including our
> current one, lack one critical thing: art.
>
> Inkscape is an art tool, but these are just standard web sites that
> would fit any kind of entity.
>
> I propose that our web site's front page should incorporate a large
> enough image, created in Inkscape, at least as well done as our About
> screens and ideally better. Like a banner, perhaps integrated with the
> "Inkscape" heading.
>
> We could even rotate them once per month or so, if we find enough good
> candidates (and there are plenty of good Inkscape art for example on
> Deviantart, we can just contact directly authors of nice pieces
> offering them this free publicity :).
> Of course this requires that someone takes the responsibility to
> choose a piece of art (I don't think we should do monthly
> competitions, it's too much overhead), nicely crop it to our format
> and otherwise integrate it with the web site, perhaps even changing
> the color scheme of the site to match the new front page art piece.
> http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: Inkscape Website

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2009/8/15 Jarosław Foksa <jfoksa@...>:
> http://drupalready.com/uploads/2009-08-15-225307_1280x800_scrot.png

We can use quite different framing options depending on the piece
we're displaying, leaving only two things constant: the size and
position of the page content block and the logo/name position. For
example:

- art like the "cup of tools" from our 0.47 About can be cropped only
at the bottom,  rising as a "sunset" over the content block but not
reaching the top, blending into background on three sides;

- art like http://12055.deviantart.com/art/Thinking-Of-Fun-115491184
could be cropped on both bottom and top, taking the entire strip
between the content block and the window edge, blending into
background on left and right sides;

- an even more evenly spread, unfocused piece of art like
http://zeh235.deviantart.com/art/inkscape-12267182 or
http://rebirthart.deviantart.com/art/One-Day-in-Farm-47515219 could
even "spill" down along the edges of the page content block, filling
the entire top of page as a background.

With this approach we don't need to change the color scheme of the
content, but we might change the color of the background outside the
content block to better blend it with the current piece. Integrating a
piece into the site would requite not only cropping but, likely,
opacity masking to fade out the edges, as well as probably some more
disruptive changes (for example,
http://rebirthart.deviantart.com/art/One-Day-in-Farm-47515219 would be
nice to flip horizontally so that the Inkscape logo does not clash
with the tree).

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Re: Inkscape Website

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Chris Morgan-10 wrote:
Aren't we?  I was expecting that we would be.  It simplifies matters, and
fits in with the plan of better organisation of the website, and makes
information much easier to find (the main site doesn't really amount to
anything at all - wiki.inkscape.org has all the content... search usability
also comes to mind).
Please don't... MediaWiki is the only wiki software I know that doesn't do silly things like AllLinksMustBeWikiWords, has tons of useful features, and almost everyone knows its syntax. Additionally, having a separate wiki allows us to cleanly separate the "official" information on the website from the "contributor area" on the wiki.

While we're at it, I have some gripes with the current wiki CSS. Perhaps those problems could be fixed along with the site redesign.
1. The title of the page is not displayed at the top. It feels like something very important is missing.
2. The font is too small. The correct size is the same as on Wikipedia - it's both readable and small enough that a lot of text fits on a screen.
3. The header image at the top of content area takes up too much space, especially on small monitors or toolbar-heavy browsers. It should be hidden on the wiki, or put in the background.

Regards, Krzysztof

Re: Inkscape Website

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2009/8/17 Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...>
Chris Morgan-10 wrote:
>
> Aren't we?  I was expecting that we would be.  It simplifies matters, and
> fits in with the plan of better organisation of the website, and makes
> information much easier to find (the main site doesn't really amount to
> anything at all - wiki.inkscape.org has all the content... search
> usability
> also comes to mind).
>
Please don't... MediaWiki is the only wiki software I know that doesn't do
silly things like AllLinksMustBeWikiWords,
Drupal has no such restrictions.  URLs are even neater in my opinion (e.g. wiki/setting-up-inkscape rather than wiki/Setting_up_Inkscape) through use of hyphens. 

has tons of useful features, 
Drupal has more!  Tell me anything that MediaWiki has or can do which you're not sure about whether Drupal can do - and I'll show how it can be done!

and almost everyone knows its syntax.
Personally I differ in opinion; some know it, but I think that HTML tags - with filters, of course - are easier to understand (because of their very verbosity which is why you get the MediaWiki syntax which is harder for beginners...).  However, if we really felt like it we could keep MediaWiki syntax.
Additionally, having a separate wiki
allows us to cleanly separate the "official" information on the website from
the "contributor area" on the wiki.
That's easy enough as well; you can have different access control rules, separate it with a URL prefix like "wiki/", in fact you can practically make Drupal behave like MediaWiki.

While we're at it, I have some gripes with the current wiki CSS. Perhaps
those problems could be fixed along with the site redesign.
1. The title of the page is not displayed at the top. It feels like
something very important is missing.
2. The font is too small. The correct size is the same as on Wikipedia -
it's both readable and small enough that a lot of text fits on a screen.
3. The header image at the top of content area takes up too much space,
especially on small monitors or toolbar-heavy browsers. It should be hidden
on the wiki, or put in the background.
These will be considered as we get to them.

Do you still have any other things about it which you think would be better if still separated?


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Re: Inkscape Website

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Chris Morgan-10 wrote:
Drupal has more!  Tell me anything that MediaWiki has or can do which you're
not sure about whether Drupal can do - and I'll show how it can be done!
OK, I'm not going to be fundamentalist about it, I just want to know whether moving to Drupal won't degrade anything :) Here are the things that I find useful in Mediawiki:

1. Templates, including table row and table cell templates like used here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/GSoC2009_Node_Tool_Rewrite#Feature_Checklist
2. Page protection
3. Immutable revision history (so it's not possible to permanently delete anything unless you really want to)
4. Sometimes, reference support is handy, but it's not a must-have

I think we'll need to use the Mediawiki API plugin you mentioned if we move to Drupal, because the wiki already contains some content which would be a pain to rewrite.

Regards, Krzysztof

Re: Inkscape Website

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Just to let you know, I decided to work on inkscape.org website again
from scratch,  this time using Drupal 7, with reworked base theme,
design and structure.
The plan is to integrate all sections (news, docs, forum, planet) so
that they have unified look & feel and could be accessed using the
same user account.

Regarding forum, I would prefer built-in drupal module - it's clean,
slick and highly integrated with core. Here is sample how it could be
themed: http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/forum (btw, that website appears
to be designed in Inkscape).

Trying to recreate exact MediaWiki behavior in Drupal is going to be
tricky. Maybe we should just decide either to stay with MediaWiki or
do it the Drupal way? Inkscape wiki is very poorly structured, e.g. it
combines end-user documentation with developer discussions, private
notes with release notes. If we were moving it to Drupal it would be
best to make the migration manually, split content into separate
content types with different permissions (currently anybody can edit
roadmap or release notes!) and clean it up by removing any outdated
information or spam.

Stable version of Drupal 7 will be released at the beginning of 2010.
What should we do meanwhile?
- implement at least homepage using Drupal 6 and one of the themes we
have so far: (http://drupalready.com/playground/inkscape.org/news and
http://inkscape.org/drupal/ )
- or leave inkscape.org as it is and focus entirely on Drupal 7?

I opt for second option as I don't like any of the current themes.

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