Re: Proposal for a new website

Hi Stephen,

"new website" will be what the visitors will see, it is just
communication. In fact, it will be nearly of a migration.

In a migration of a website, there is fundamental goals :
- minimum data loss (forum post, news, ...)
- minimum impact (users accounts, URLs, ...)

Changing to galleryproject.org doesn't mean that the gallery.menalto.com
will become unavailable. A proper configuration of Apache will do an
HTTP redirection :
    http://gallery.menalto.com/(.*) -> http://www.gallerymenalto.org/$1

This way, the old addresses stay valid and the new are referenced by the
search engines.

The majority of the current website could be reused, it just need some
reorganisation and clarification. There is not need to change drupal or
the forum (except if the code is unmaintained).

About codex, IMHO, it needs to be droped (see [1] for the proposal).

Greetings.

[1] http://codex.gallery2.org/New_Website

Le mardi 26 mai 2009 à 11:38 -0700, Stephen Cupp a écrit :
> I don't think gallery needs a new website. I think the current one can
> be adapted easily enough.  Why would we want to change URL's and break
> everyone's bookmarks to forums posts and whatnot and lose all the google
> juice that gallery.menalto.com has?  I think the time would be better
> spent reorganizing the codex instead of reinventing the wheel.  What
> does codex mean anyways?
>
> Stephen Cupp


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