Website progress

[Jonathan Carter]

Hi Jane

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 11:04 +0200, Jane Weideman wrote:
> What I have seen so far look pretty good, and once the colour selection
> are in it will look even better.
> 
> Are you going to publish a link for people to review and crit it?

Yes. At the moment it's fairly pointless, as we have just about got our
static content from the current site. On the theme side, we're halfway
between our current theme, and the spreadfirefox theme, so it looks very
ugly, to open it up for crit right now would mean that we would just get
a big bunch of pointless e-mails telling us how ugly our site is :)

We should be ready for comments by the end of next week. By then we
should have some fun stuff to show, as well.

> Good, yes it is important for the site to stay dynamic, up to date and
> relevant. It will help to draw ppl to the site and our community and
> will hopefully hook them in. With any luck that will encourage them to
> participate and hopefully help us with the updates and developments.

Yes, and even small things like a banner that shows some advice or cool
information about Edubuntu that changes daily, can make the site
interesting. There's quite a few things like that we'll be implementing.
Watch this space :)

> > We originally proposed that we launch the new website on a day or two
> > before the Dapper release. If the dapper release is postponed, I suggest
> > that we stick with our old launch date, rather than postponing it
> > together with the release.
> 
> I agree, I don't see the sense in waiting a further 6 weeks to launch,
> and since there is a lot of anticipation for an April release, let's at
> least have a new site to show, if nothing else.

Great! If we're not going to aim for the launch anymore, then I'd even
be happy to launch sooner than 20 April, once the Edubuntu community
approves the new site.

-Jonathan