[Ubuntu Chicago] New Website Theme

[Rich Johnson]

On Saturday 17 March 2007, Jim Campbell wrote:
| Hmmm... this doesn't seem to be a new website theme, but an entire website
| refresh.  It looks great, but where did our stuff go?

We never really had anything but links to stuff we never added to. I am 
changing this this time around. I am going to Chicago'ize the page today and 
make it fit us more. Right now what you see is a tweaked theme of the 
Ubuntu.com theme. Canonical would like LoCo pages to emulate the main site as 
much as possible. I think we have done good with that aspect, but now I want 
to add a drop down link at the top that will be all Chicago stuff. Then 
create a news page to host our news, and incorporate the Planet into that 
theme as well. So if anyone is a serious PHP hacker let me know. My PHP 
skills are Googled :)

| Maybe others were aware of this change, but I didn't see any activity on
| the listserve or on IRC about it.  We could've helped with the project, or
| we could've just copied Freddy's blog into an OpenOffice Writer document or
| something.  :-)

I have Freddy's blog. I just need to see if he can edit and add to it.

| We need to communicate better about these changes so that we can help each
| other out.  Were we under some kind of Canonical-imposed time crunch to
| update our website or something?  What can we do to make this better for
| next time?

Kind of. I apologize for not coming to the list first, but seeing as there was 
nothing more than some stale news (which is still there, just not posted on 
the front page) and Freddy's blog, I went ahead with the upgrade. I would 
like to create more of a portal but we shall see how that goes.

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Rich Johnson
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